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- Page 1 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com User Manual for Me Creator...
- Page 2 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 1. Power Supply Wiring 1. Take out the power supply, there is a 110V/220V switch on it. Please make sure that the switch is at the correct position according to the residential electricity standard of your country.
- Page 3 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Note: Both of the power supply and LCD of Me Creator are external, and there are no installation holes set on the body of machine. Please find a flat place for the placement of your printer, LCD and power supply.
- Page 4 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com...
- Page 5 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 4. Connect the Printer to Repetier Host After installing Repetier Host, plug USB cable into computer and open Repetier Host. When you start Repetier Host for the first time, you need to configure the printer parameters, and then do the connection.
- Page 6 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 4.1 Create New Printer In the pull-down menu at the top, it shows current selected printer. When it starts for the first time, it only has the default printer. Change the name of the printer and click Apply can create a...
- Page 7 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com There are six tags in total here. Configure relevant parameters of the printer here. 4.2Connection Choose right Port and Baud Rate. For other parameters please leave them as default, and click Apply. Port ： Get the printer connected to the port of computer, which is corresponding to the USB Serial Port in the Device manager.
- Page 8 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Note: If the operating system is Mac OS, please set the baud rate as 115200. Meanwhile, you need to do debugging for the motor direction of the printer again after re-uploading the firmware. Open the firmware in Arduino 1.0.1, change the baud rate of firmware to 115200 in Configuration.h file.
- Page 9 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com After successfully modifying the baud rate in firmware, modify the baud rate in Repetier-Host to 115200 as well.
- Page 10 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 4.3Printer Set the extruder’s moving speed both in horizontal direction and Z-axis direction in the Printer tab, and click Apply. Travel Feed Rate: 4800mm/min Z-Axis Feed Rate: 100mm/min This is the default printing speed of Repetier-Host. You can adjust these two speeds if you need. But...
- Page 11 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 4.4Extruder Number of the extruder: 1 Diameter of extruder 1: 0.3...
- Page 12 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 4.5 Printer shape Printer type: classical printer Home X：Min Home Y：Max Home Z：Min X Min：0 X Max: 150 Bed Left: 0 Y Min：0 Y Max: 150 Bed Front: 0 Printing zone: 150 x 150 x 150 (length/width/height) After setting, click the button in the top left corner of Home Page.
- Page 13 , the printer connection is successful. 5. Function Test The uploaded firmware of Me Creator before delivery is based om Windows operating system, and we have done debugging on it to make sure that every part of it can work normally. However, there may be abnormal circumstances because of the process of transportation or other unpredictable factors.
- Page 14 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 5.1.2 Heating function test Click the heating button of the hot bed and the extruder . When the icon changes into the state as shown below, it indicates the heating is ongoing.
- Page 15 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Meanwhile you can see the temperature at the bottom of Repetier. If the hot bed or extruder can not be heated, please refer to FAQ. 5.1.3 Extruder test Please note: It is set in the firmware that the extruder will not work before the temperature reaches above 170℃.
- Page 16 5.2.1 Homing LCD>Prepare>Auto Home Turn on the printer, first please make a homing. If you don’t make a homing, it will choose the current position as home position by default. Debugging has been done on Me Creator before its delivery, homing...
- Page 17 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 5.2.2 Heating LCD>Prepare>Preheat PLA/Preheat ABS Test the heating function of hotbed and extruder. Default settings are as follows: Preheat PLA: Nozzle:180°，Bed:70° Preheat ABS： Nozzle:230°，Bed:110° During heating process, please observe if the extruder and hotbed are heated to the preset temperatures or not.
- Page 18 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com If the homing and heating tests are normal, next you need to test the running of X, Y, Z axis and extruder motor in Move Axis option. At the same time you need to observe if the running direction of the motor is correct or not.
- Page 19 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 2.2.4 Unlocking motor After unlocking motors, each axis can be moved by hand. 6. Hotbed Leveling Before printing, please check whether the moving path of the extruder is parallel with the hotbed or not, which is called leveling.
- Page 20 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Fine tuning 1）Make a homing for the printer. Unlock the motor, manually move the extruder to the three positions of the hotbed shown in the 2） picture. At this moment the nozzle tip is already very near to the hot bed because of previous coarse tuning.
- Page 21 Please note that the print object can not exceed the printing zone. 7.1.2 Slicing Parameters Setting Repetier-Host is bundled with two slicers: Slic3r and CuraEngine. We use slice 3r as example to introduce how to set slicing parameters of Me Creator. Click Slicer>Configuration...
- Page 22 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Following interface of Slic3r will appear:...
- Page 23 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Set the height of layer and the first layer in Print Settings, and save the setting. Set filament diameter as 1.75 in Filament Settings. Temperature setting PLA: Extruder 190℃-210℃, hotbed 55℃-65℃ ABS: Extruder 240℃-250℃, hotbed 85℃-95℃...
- Page 24 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Set hotbed size and nozzle diameter in Printer Settings, and save the setting.
- Page 25 Here we give you a setting for reference. Please download the ini.file You can import it into slic3r to view it according to following steps. Note: this slicing setting is corresponding to following parameters Printer type: Me Creator(nozzle diameter:0.3) Filament: PLA/1.75...
- Page 26 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Click File<Load Config to import the Me Creator.ini slicing setting Click save in Printer Settings tab.
- Page 27 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Click save in Filament Settings tab.
- Page 28 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Click save in Printer Settings tab. After saving, return back to Slicer tab. Choose Me Creator slicing setting in the pull-down menu of Print Settings/Printer Settings/Filament Settings.
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Page 29: Stand-Alone Printing
Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Click Slice with Slic3r to start slicing. Slicing is over, and click Print to begin printing. Stand-alone printing If you want to print by using the SD card, you can save the .gcode file in SD card for printing. - Page 30 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Note: The printer only recognizes .gcode file, and the file can not be placed in any folder! Steps are as follows: Click Save for SD Print, and choose the save button in the dialog box.
- Page 31 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com Choose corresponding .gcode file to begin printing. Heating When heating is completed, it begins printing automatically.
- Page 32 Shenzhen Getech Technology CO.LTD www.geeetech.com 8.FAQ 8.1 How to burn firmware? Me Creator uses Sanguinololu motherboard. Download Me Creator firmware http://www.geeetech.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1563 For burning process please refer to the following link http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=16433 8.2 The hotbed or extruder can not be heated.