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  • Page 1 Geeetech Duplicator 5 User Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents Safety Instructions ..............................4 1．Software Resources ............................. 5 1.1 Repetier-Host ............................... 5 1.2 Driver ................................5 1.3 Arduino IDE ..............................6 2．Connect the Printer .............................. 6 3．Printer Setting ..............................9 3.1 Printer Speed ..............................9 3.2 Number of Extruder and Nozzle Diameter ....................10 3.3 Printer Shape ..............................
  • Page 3 7.1.2 Slicing ............................. 57 7.2 Print with Dual-extruder ..........................64 7.3 Stand-alone printing with SD Card ......................75 7.3.1 Save ..............................75 7.3.2 Print ..............................76 8．FAQ ................................... 78 8.1 How to upload firmware? .......................... 78 8.2 How to change the motor direction in firmware? ..................79 8.3 User manual of Repetier-Host ........................

  • Page 4: Safety Instructions

    Safety Instructions Building the printer will require a certain amount of physical dexterity, common sense and a thorough understanding of what you are doing. We have provided this detailed instruction to help you assemble it easily. However, ultimately we cannot be responsible for your health and safety while you are building or operating the printer.

  • Page 5: Software Resources

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 1． Software Resources 1.1 Repetier-Host We use the latest Repetier-Host 2.0.1 as the control software for Duplicator 5. Here is the link for downloading it: https://www.repetier.com/download-now/ After downloading and installation, it can be used. 1.2 Driver Connect the printer to computer with USB cable, the motherboard driver installer will automatically appear.

  • Page 6: Arduino Ide

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm Download and install, you can find the corresponding serial port in the Windows "Device Manager": 1.3 Arduino IDE In the process of using the printer you may need to re-upload the firmware, and the software you need to use is Arduino IDE.
  • Page 7 [printer settings] will appear. First, enter “Duplicator 5” into the text box to name the printer. Then, select the corresponding COM port for the printer and set the baud rate as 250,000 in the drop-down menu.
  • Page 8 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com After setting, click the button in the top left corner of Home Page. When the button turns green and changes into , the printer connection is successful.

  • Page 9: Printer Setting

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 3． Printer Setting 3.1 Printer Speed Set the running speed of printer as 1000 in the [printer settings] in order to avoid the collision caused by high speed during the test. After the follow-up tests are completed, it can be changed back to the original value.

  • Page 10: Number Of Extruder And Nozzle Diameter

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 3.2 Number of Extruder and Nozzle Diameter The number of extruder is set as 2. The diameter of print head is set according to the actual size, here is 0.4mm. The distance between two extruders on X direction is 32mm, then set offset X -16 and 16mm. (You...
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  • Page 12: Printer Shape

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 3.3 Printer Shape Here the printer shape of Duplicator 5 is Classic Printer; For home position, choose Min; The printer's maximum printing volume 230 * 150 * 150 (length / width / height). If the object which is being printed is not in the center of the hot bed, you can adjust the following...

  • Page 13: Printer Function Test

    Now we have finished the relevant settings for Duplicator 5. 4. Printer Function Test When we are testing Duplicator 5, we can test through LCD control panel or on the control software --- Repetier-Host. The following parts display detailed testing procedures.

  • Page 14: Use Repetier-Host To Test

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 4.1 Use Repetier-Host to Test 4.1.1 Motor Direction Test Manually set the motors of X / Y / Z axis in the middle of each direction to avoid accidental collision during the test. Always be prepared for emergency stop. There is emergency stop button at the top right corner , or you can cut off the power.
  • Page 15 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Note: The origin of the coordinates is at the front left corner of the building platform. Therefore, when X/Y/Z axis is homed, there coordinates are X=230mm, Y=150mm, Z=0mm. In this way, the positive direction of X axis is from left to right, i.e. +1mm means the motor moves toward the X axis endstop at 1mm.
  • Page 16 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com If the moving direction is reversed, you can change the motor direction in the firmware. (please refer to FAQ). In them manual control mode, the number in the middle of the panel represents the moving distance and direction every time. Click the button every one time, the motor moves at 0.1mm,...
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  • Page 20: Heating Test

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com In the printing, we recommend 1mm to avoid errors. 4.1.2 Heating Test Click the heating button of the hot bed and the extruder . The slash will disappear and you will see the temperature rising up.
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  • Page 22 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Meanwhile, you can see the real-time temperature at the bottom of Repetier-Host. If the hot bed or extruder can not be heated, please refer to FAQ。...

  • Page 23: Extruder Test

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 4.1.3 Extruder Test Please note: The extruder will not begin to work until the temperature reaches above 170 ℃. Heat the extruder to 200 ℃, and then insert the filament into the hotend via push-in fitting. When you are pushing the filament, press the handle with one hand and push the filament with the other hand.
  • Page 24 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com button to modify the coordinate of Z axis.
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  • Page 26 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com After pushing the filament into the bottom of hotend, you can use the feeding button on Repetier-Host (as shown in following picture) to do manual feeding. To avoid clogging, please choose the feeding rate button at 1mm or 10mm (as shown in the following picture). The right side button is used for rapid feeding, seldom used.

  • Page 27: Use Lcd Control Panel To Test

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Note: If the moving direction of the motor is reversed, which means you find the filament going backwards when you click to feed downwards, please change the motor direction of the extruder in the firmware to solve the problem. This method also applies to the abnormal cases for X/Y/Z axis motor.
  • Page 28 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 1. Extruder temperature: current temperature/target temperature 2. Hotbed temperature: current temperature/target temperature 3. Current coordinates of X/Y/Z 4. Feed rate: current printing rate 5. Current rate of printing process Note: Rotate the knob during printing will change the feedrate in real time.
  • Page 29 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Main functions of Prepare menu: 1. Disable steppers: unlock the motor so that you can move them freely. 2. Auto home: automatically homing of each axis 3. Preheat PLA: manually preheat the hotbed and the extruder before printing PLA 4.
  • Page 30 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Main functions of Control menu: 1. Temperature: You can change the temperature of the hotbed and the extruder in real time in printing process. Meanwhile you can set the temperature of Preheat PLA and Preheat ABS.

  • Page 31: Motor Direction Test

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com For other detailed functions, please read the following introduction of function tests. 4.2.2 Motor Direction Test After learning about the functions of the LCD control panel, press the knob to enter sub-menu and choose [Prepare]： Choose Auto home in menu to do home operation:...
  • Page 32 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com If you want to move the motor, choose Move axis： Choose Move 1mm： （Note: the extruder can support three options: Move 10mm, Move 1mm and Move 0.1mm. We recommend you to choose “Move 1mm”.）...
  • Page 33 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Choose the axis that you want to move by using Move X/Y/Z options. Turning the knob can make each axis move left and right or back and forth. After testing each axis, you can choose Prepare>Auto home in the menu to make it back to home position.

  • Page 34: Heating Test

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Prepare>Disable steppers： After unlocking the motor, you could move the extruders manually. 4.2.3 Heating Test In the Control menu, you can select temperature setting of hotbed and extruder. Choose control:...
  • Page 35 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Choose temperature： Select the temperature you want to set: After setting, you can choose Prepare> Preheat PLA to preheat the hot bed and extruder.

  • Page 36: Hotbed Leveling

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com So far, functional tests of the printer are done. 5. Hotbed Leveling Before printing, we need to do hotbed leveling. Only after this step can quality of printed parts get improved. Otherwise the un-leveling gap between the hotbed and extrusion head will affect the filament adhering to the hotbed thus cause poor print quality or even not printing.
  • Page 37 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com sable the stepper motors , manually move the extruder to the four corners of the hot bed and fine-tune the wing nut at each corner to level the distances between the extrusion head and four corners. During adjustment, you can put a piece of A4 paper (half fold it) between the nozzle and hotbed.
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  • Page 41 You need to rotate the wing nut at the leveling point clockwise to increase the distance. (3) Dual-extruder leveling. Duplicator 5 uses MK8 dual-extruder, so you only need to adjust the two set screws when leveling the extruder, as marked in following picture. You can take one...

  • Page 42: Slice Settings

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com clockwise to increase or decrease the height of the other hotend. With the above three steps, we have finished the leveling job. It is suggested to move the nozzle to the center of the building platform to test whether the building platform is level.

  • Page 43: Printing Setting

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Click [configuration] and you will see the following interface: 6.1 Printing Setting Set layer height and the first layer height in the Print setting tab. Generally speaking, layer height can be set as 0.05 -0.3mm. Considering the printing accuracy and speed, 0.2mm is the most...
  • Page 44 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com It is convenient to set the printing speed according your need.
  • Page 45 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com After modifying these parameters in [Print Settings], click the save button to name your setting.

  • Page 46: Filament Setting

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Click [OK] to finish the setting. 6.2 Filament Setting Set filament diameter and print temperature in the [Filament settings] tab. Filament we use here is 1.75mm PLA. Usually the temperature of the extrusion head is 195-210℃，and the temperature of hotbed is 60-70℃.
  • Page 47 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Number of extruders: 2...
  • Page 48 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Set the diameter of the nozzles as 0.4mm (you can set this value according your actual need). Offset on X direction: Extruder 1: -16mm, Extruder 2: 16mm...
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  • Page 50: Other Settings

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Do remember to save your settings and rename them. Click the save button and name your setting. 6.4 Other Settings In addition to the above parameter settings, parameters like the speed of the printer are also very important to print quality.
  • Page 51 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Open slic3r>File>Load Config： Find “Duplicator 5 PLA config.ini” file in the dialog box and open it.
  • Page 52 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Then you can successfully import the config.ini file. Click the Save button to rename it as [Duplicator 5 PLA config] and save it. Click the save button in [Print Settings].
  • Page 53 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Click the save button in [Filament Settings].
  • Page 54 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Click the save button in [Printer Settings].

  • Page 55: Begin Printing

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7. Begin Printing So far, all the preparatory work is completed. The next step is to import the model file for slicing and printing. For 3D printer, the file format of the model is generally .stl file. You can download 3D models for free and print those models which are shared online.

  • Page 56: Print With One Extruder

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7.1 Print with one extruder If you are new to 3D printing, you can try to print with only one extruder first. After getting familiar with the whole process, you can try to use dual-extruder. Here we print a simple plate. You can...

  • Page 57: Slicing

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7.1.2 Slicing After the file is loaded, you can use the following buttons to zoom in or zoom out the model, or rotate it.
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  • Page 59 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com You can also use the [unlock] button to scale the object in different proportion.
  • Page 60 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Choose the extruder.
  • Page 61 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com After scaling the model, you can choose the slicing parameters which have been imported previously in the drop- down menu, and click Slice with slic3r.
  • Page 62 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com In this way, .gcode file which can be recognized by the printer is generated. Besides, the estimated printing time and filament needed are available.
  • Page 63 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Last step, click button or button to print.

  • Page 64: Print With Dual-Extruder

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7.2 Print with Dual-extruder Actually, dual-extruder printing is to load two separate objects, and then separately print them with the assigned extruder. Thus you can print objects with two colors. Click here to download .stl files which can be used for dual-extruder printing: two_colour_cube.stl.
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  • Page 66 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com The two models loaded are separate. At first, we adjust their locations to combine them together. Click [Object Group 1], choose object 1, and then click centering button...
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  • Page 68 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com The object 1 is now in the middle of the hotbed. Put object 2 in the middle of hotbed in the same way. See the final model in the following picture.
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  • Page 70 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Remember to assign an extruder for each object:...
  • Page 71 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com You can choose the slicing parameters which have been imported previously in the drop- down menu, and click Slice with slic3r.
  • Page 72 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com If there is a warning, you can neglect it and choose [No].
  • Page 73 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Click to begin printing.
  • Page 74 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com The finished printout is shown as bellow:...

  • Page 75: Stand-Alone Printing With Sd Card

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7.3 Stand-alone printing with SD Card If you want to print stand-alone, please save the .gcode file in SD card. Note: The printer only recognizes .gcode file in the SD card, and the file can not be placed in any folder! The operation flows are as follows.

  • Page 76: Print

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com 7.3.2 Print Insert the SD card into the SD card slot on the back of the LCD control panel. Choose the corresponding .gcode file to print. Press the knob on LCD control panel, rotate the knob to enter the main menu and choose [Print...
  • Page 77 ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Choose the corresponding .gcode file for printing. Heating.

  • Page 78: Faq

    When heating is completed, the printer starts to print automatically. 8．FAQ If you encounter any problems during printing, you can visit our forum: http://www.geeetech.com/forum/, and there are detailed solutions in the forum. Common problems are as follows: 8.1 How to upload firmware? The motherboard of the printer is already burned with firmware when it leaves the factory.

  • Page 79: How To Change The Motor Direction In Firmware

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com Arduino IDE to burn a new firmware. Arduino1.0.1 is recommended. Here is the download link: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/OldSoftwareReleases#1.0.x The way of uploading firmware, please refer to: http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17181 Firmware download address, please refer to: http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17046 Common parameters settings of firmware, please refer to: http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17194...

  • Page 80: User Manual Of Repetier-Host

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com axis into false or false into true, and save the firmware and burn into the printer. (Since you don’t know the firmware which has been burned by mother board is true or false, it may be necessary to burn both of the two parameters.)

  • Page 81: Possible Causes For Motor's Non-Action

    ShenZhen GETECH CO.,LTD www.geeetech.com http://www.geeetech.com/wiki/index.php/Repetier-Host 8.4 Possible causes for motor’s non-action http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17038 8.5 Extruder does not work normally http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17097 8.6 The hotbed or extruder can not be heated http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17039 8.7 LCD error： MAX/MIN TEMP error http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17030 8.8 No information or displaying black square on LCD http://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17040...

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