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Mass Portal Pharaoh XD Series User Manual

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  • Page 1 ® Mass Portal® Pharaoh® XD Series Desktop 3D Printer User Manual...
  • Page 2 Simplify3D® ver. 3.0.2 Repetier Firmware ver. 203-ebd8c58 *The firmware and Pharaoh Touch version may change due to updates. © 2014 MASS PORTAL SIA — ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MASS PORTAL AND PHARAOH ARE REGISTERED TRADE MARKS OF MASS PORTAL SIA ALL OTHER TRADE MARKS ARE USED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Contents......3 Safety ......4 Getting started Welcome .

  • Page 4: Safety

    The printer is intended to be used only indoors — ambient plate below the print temperature must be between 15°C and 30°C. The Mass Portal head are extremely 3D printer under no circumstances should be subjected to high hot when printing.
  • Page 5 SAFETY — CONTINUED WARM PARTS The printer frame and outer parts can be warm during operation, reaching temperatures up to 60°C after extended use. CLEANING DO NOT USE FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS TO CLEAN HOT PARTS. Use dry paper towel to clean print bed and print head. If more thorough cleaning is needed, the printer must be turned off and cooled down to room temperature.

  • Page 6: Getting Started

    Basically, it’s a bird’s eye view on how it all works and at the same time a step by step guide to your first print. Safety Please read the safety chapter. Mass Portal printers are designed to be safe to use, but you need to have a general understanding of it’s safe operation.
  • Page 7 3D printing meet-ups. Printing Material — 1,75mm filament Mass Portal 3D printers are designed to work with print material from any vendor — 1,75 mm thermoplastic filament — as long as it’s a good quality product, with uniform diameter. We try to find and recommend the best materials on the market, since the materials play the most important role for quality printouts.

  • Page 8: Printer Setup

    Printer Setup 1. Unbox the printer - using the included instructions INFO Filament spool Be careful, the printer is heavy.. holder is designed to be compatible 2. Let the printer warm up to room temperature with different form This is important — especially in cold weather. In winter, it may factory filament spools from various take a long time, don’t rush it.
  • Page 9 7. Calibrate the printer. After turning on the printer it is necessary to calibrate the printer to make sure that the bed is level. (Before starting make sure the print bed is clear of any objects) Calibration process for MP20 1.

  • Page 10: My First Print

    My First Print INFO Insert filament The printer comes with G-codes already loaded to the internal into this hole on the memory, so you can print a test print without connecting to a back side of the computer. printer. You need to firmly press and hold 1.
  • Page 11 Use the supplied tool to gently remove the object. remove the glass print bed to help remove the print TIP If you ever want to return to the main screen press the Mass Portal logo in the top right corner of the screen.

  • Page 12: Printing Process Overview

    Printing process overview Mass Portal® 3D printers use process called Fused Filament Fabrication or FFF — printing objects out of melted plastic layer by layer. How it works Thermoplastic printing material (the filament) is melted in the 3D printers printing head, and pushed through a nozzle. This process is called extrusion.
  • Page 13 PRINTING PROCESS OVERVIEW — CONTINUED STL or OBJ files TIP Test and sample files for the bundled G-code is usually generated from 3D models, that are saved in material are provided the STL or OBJ format. Most 3D modelling software today can on the printers export to these formats, and printable files on the Internet are internal memory...

  • Page 14: Print Bed Coating And Heating

    Print Bed Coating and Heating Mass Portal printers are equipped with a glass print bed. WARNING The Although you can print directly to the glass surface, some correct bed coating must be selected materials work better on a different coating. Work better means on the printer, so the material will adhere firmly or “stick”...

  • Page 15: Print Bed Leveling / Calibration

    Print Bed Leveling / Calibration The print bed on Mass Portal printers is held in place with three TIP The sensor plates in the print thumbscrews. The slant and height of the print bed can be bed are not attached, adjusted by turning the thumbscrews.

  • Page 16: Ventilation System

    The fans also include filters to clean any fumes from the print chamber. Studies have shown that some printing materials, such as ABS, can release toxic fumes while printing. With the use of the Mass Portal ventilation system, these fumes are filtered from the air creating a safe work environment. Material...
  • Page 17 VENTILATION CONTINUED Chamber Temperature *Approximate temperatures depending on which ventilation option is used MP20 MP30 MP40 500C 300C 250C Ventilation Settings To use the ventilation system properly, there are few different options available to use for multiple purposes Circulation Circulation is used for materials the generally do not need a warm print chamber.

  • Page 18: Standalone Printing

    WARNING The SD card should NOT be removed from the printer unless instructed to by Mass Portal support. To load gcodes to the printer use a USB flash, TCP/IP, USB cable, or Internent connection.

  • Page 19: Using Pharaoh Touch Tm

    Pharaoh Touch Main Screen Every time you select the Mass Portal Logo in the top left corner of the screen it will take you to the Main Screen. From the Main Screen you will be able to navigate to any desired menu from the main screen.
  • Page 20 PHARAOH TOUCH — CONTINUED TIP Fan speed percentage is estimated, and fans will not work all the way down to 0 percent. The print screen will look like this while the printer is in operation: Printing: The model you are printing % Complete: Percent of how much of the object has been printed Head: Big numbers: Set temperature...
  • Page 21 PHARAOH TOUCH — CONTINUED Material TIP Print head must be heated to remove You will be directed from the Print screen to this screen to select / change filament. the material with which you would like to print. You need to heat up From the Main Screen you After choosing the desired material, to the corresponding you will brought to the material control menu to prepare the...
  • Page 22 PHARAOH TOUCH — CONTINUED Select Object When choosing a file, you will be directed to the select object screen to verify your selection. If it is not the object you wanted you can press the back button to return to the previous screen. Or if you would like to delete the object, you can do that as well.
  • Page 23 PHARAOH TOUCH — CONTINUED Utilities The utilities menu offers different tools to help improve the use of your printer. Nudge control: With the nudge control panel you can move the print head in the X, Y, and Z direction in steps of 10, 1 and 0.1 mm, enable or disable stepper motors and fans, and extrude or retract with all extruders.
  • Page 24 PHARAOH TOUCH — CONTINUED Ethernet: If connected to an ethernet cable, the screen shows the IP address so you can connect to the printer using TCP connection Ventilation: Change the different ventilation options depending on what material you are using (See chapter on Ventilation) Update: Update the Pharaoh Touch software to make sure that your printer is up to date with the latest Pharaoh Touch...
  • Page 25 The exit the Debug Info Firmware update screen should not be used unless instructed by screen, press the Mass Portal logo. Mass Portal support. Settings With the settings menu you can adjust the printer settings so that...
  • Page 26 PHARAOH TOUCH — CONTINUED Calibration: Reset: If there was some problem with the previous calibration, notice that the bed was slanted, you can reset the calibration information Calibrate: Start the calibration for your printer Bed coating: Can set the bed coating to the presets using the “Set bed coating material”...
  • Page 27 Other Settings: Can choose to send data to Mass Portal to improve printing experience, adjust when the screen saver will be activated, and change the nozzle size so that the printer “knows” the current nozzle size.

  • Page 28: Software: Simplify3D

    4. Follow the downloading instructions Setup 1. After you complete the installation of Simplify3D, please choose WARNING The “Bed the “Mass Portal Pharaoh ED” from the printer models pop-up Leveling Wizard” menu. does not work with 2. Click “Next” and complete the initial setup process.
  • Page 29 SIMPLIFY3D — CONTINUED The Printing Process with Simplify3D TIP You can also 1. Importing models drag you files into the 1. After completing a 3D model and printing area instead of using the import saving it as an STL or OBJ file, or button.
  • Page 30 SIMPLIFY3D — CONTINUED TIP Typically, a 45° or greater overhang will benefit from support material underneath it. With Simplify3D you can customize your supports, with add and delete support buttons. Preparing to print 1. Now that your model is ready, you can click the “Prepare to TIP If you want more Print!”...

  • Page 31: Printing With Dual Extruder

    When printing with your dual extruder, you need to make sure that the materials you are printing can print at the same temperature. The Mass Portal dual extruder only uses one nozzle, so will be operating a one temperature. You can print...
  • Page 32 DUAL EXTRUDER — CONTINUED Simplify3D Settings We are working with Simplify3D to get a default dual extrusion profile prepared for more convenient printing, but until that time, please follow the following steps. Dual Extrusion for Support: 1. Import the model you would like to use 2.
  • Page 33 DUAL EXTRUDER — CONTINUED b)In the “Tool Change Script” write the INFO You will also need to go to the following “Advanced” tab to make sure the “Tool Change Retration is also set to the proper value. (see image) c) In the “Ending Script” tab write the following 5) In the “Support”...
  • Page 34 DUAL EXTRUDER — CONTINUED Dual extrusion for Multiple Colors: Printing with two colors will be similar to printing with support, but when printing with two colors, you will need to use two processes. 1) Add a new Process on the left side of the screen. 2) When editing Process 1, make the “Extruder Toolhead Index”...
  • Page 35 DUAL EXTRUDER — CONTINUED INFO If there is a conflict with your settings or selection of processes with the part, Simplify3D will give a warning 8) To make sure that the G-code is prepared as you would like it to be, in “Preview Mode” on the left side of the screen there will be an option “Coloring.”...

  • Page 36: Printing Materials Overview

    Printing Materials Overview Each material has different properties that make it useful for TIP If you’re new to 3D printing, PLA different tasks. For example, nylon is both strong and non- Filament is a good reactive to many substances. Other plastics can have excellent material to start with optical clarity or can be easy to work with.
  • Page 37 Flexible materials Flexible materials can be a bit challenging to print with a bowden based system like the Mass Portal printer uses — but the Mass Portal Pharaoh is known to print even pretty flexible materials like thermoplastic elastomers, thermoplastic polyurethane and various kinds of flexibility-modified PLA.

  • Page 38: Post Processing Of Prints

    Post Processing of Prints These articles describes how to clean up and otherwise post- process 3D prints made with a 3D printer. Prints may have imperfections, e.g. small parts that stick out and that you will have to remove. You can do this mechanically or by using fire, heat or a solvent.

  • Page 39: Printer Maintenance

    Printer maintenance To ensure long service life and correct operation of the printer, simple maintenance must be done when appropriate: • after long periods of printing (approx. 100 printing hours); • after long periods of inactive use or storage; • once every three months. Cleaning the print bed The glass print bed is commonly coated with BuildTak printing surface, Kapton tape or Blue painter’s tape when printing.
  • Page 40 PRINTER MAINTENANCE — CONTINUED Cleaning the extruder drive gear - without removing drive gear The extruder is located inside the printer chamber, upper left corner. The design of the extruder allows cleaning of the drive gear without disassembling it. The drive gear teeth can sometimes become filled with plastic parts from filament, when the print head has been clogged and the drive gear has “dug”...
  • Page 41 PRINTER MAINTENANCE — CONTINUED Cleaning extruder drive gear / replacing extruder drive gear Removing the drive gear 1. First, remove the filament. 2. Then turn the gear by hand so the fixing screw is visible 3. With a 1.5 mm hex head screwdriver, loosen it. 4.

  • Page 42: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting Support contact Technical support is available via e-mail support@massportal.com Extrusion problems Feedrate and No or not enough plastic is released from nozzle. Flowrate – these Usually the most common reason that nozzle gets clogged is settings can be because of inappropriate print settings such as print speed, changed during retraction speed and distance, temperature etc..

  • Page 43: Print Not Sticking To Bed

    TROUBLESHOOTING — CONTINUED Problem: Nozzle is too low to print bed and that cause filament blockage, because of high back pressure in print head. Solution: Level the print bed with auto calibration or three screws and/or change the settings to the correct bed coating.
  • Page 44 TROUBLESHOOTING — CONTINUED Removing filament from the bowden tube There is sometimes a case when filament breaks near feed hole and if the printer is still printing filament end goes after drive gear in bowden tube then it is impossible to push it out. To remove filament from bowden tube: 1.

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