Material Spool Installation - Stratasys F170 User Manual

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The material spool is ready to be installed into the material bay. Follow the steps within
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MATERIAL SPOOL INSTALLATION

Once you've properly prepared a material spool, you can begin the process of loading material. Pre-loading
filament to the drive wheels places a spool's filament into position to be loaded to the liquefier tip within the
head. Once filament is detected by the filament present switch, it can then be completely loaded to the liquefier
tip.
To install and load a material spool:
1. Ensure that the printer is stopped (idle) and is not building.
2. Select the Materials button from the Navigation Menu; a screen similar to
displayed. The information displayed represents the current configuration of your printer.
3. Observe the status information displayed for each of the Materials Status Icons. A Material
Status Icon with a dashed gray border indicates that a material spool is not present in the
material's corresponding material bay. A completely gray Head Status Icon indicates that
material is not loaded to that head.
Figure 5-6: Current Configuration - Load Material
to install the material spool and load material to the head.
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Filament Tail
Capture Locations
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