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- Page 1 LONGER Technology Orange120 3D Printer User Mannual Version1.0 2018-11-20 www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.com...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Contents 1. Introduction ..........................1 2. Specifications ..........................2 3. Product Overview ........................3 3.1 The 3D printer system ..................... 3 3.2 The 3D printer description ....................3 3.3 The accessory box ......................4 4. Active Your 3D Printer ......................5 5 Touch Screen Description ......................6 5.1 Main Menu ........................ - Page 3 6.16 Wifi Connection ......................34 6.17 Post-processing ......................35 7. FAQ ............................38 8. Attentions and Maintenance ....................39 9. Printing Cases ........................40 www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.com...
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Page 4: Introduction
1. Introduction This user manual is provided to the operator with necessray and detailed instructions for safe and correct operation, software, maintenance, troubleshooting of Orange120 3D printer. This manual document must be read carefully before installation and operation of the printer. -
Page 5: Specifications
2. Specifications Equipment Model Orange120 Printing Technology LCD stereolithography Build Size 12068150 mm Layer Thickness 0.02-0.10 mm LCD Resolution 25601440 pixel, 47.25 μm Z axis Resolution 0.625 μm Build Speed 30 mm/h Material Photopolymer Resin Light Source UV LED 405 nm... -
Page 6: Product Overview
3. Product Overview 3.1 The 3D printer system A: Orange120 3D printer B: Building platform C: Resin vat D: Power cable E: Resin bottle F: Ethernet cable 3.2 The 3D printer description www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.com... -
Page 7: The Accessory Box
Z aix Building platform fixed screw Leveling fixed screw Building platform Vat fixed sccrew Resin vat Touch screen Leveling pad Switch Ethernet cable input Power port 3.3 The accessory box Ethernet Cable1 Power Adapter1 Filtering Funnel2 Latex Gloves2 www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.com... -
Page 8: Active Your 3D Printer
Photopolymer Scraper1 Card5 Release Film1 Resin 250mL1 Screw Kits1 ● Straight Screwdriver 3mm ● Hexagon Wrench 1.5mm ● Hexagon Wrench 2mm ● Hexagon Wrench 2.5mm ● Hexagon Wrench 3mm ● Hexagon Wrench 4mm ● 4. Active Your 3D Printer Put the printer on a flat platform. Make sure that the printer is stable. -
Page 9: Touch Screen Description
5 Touch Screen Description 5.1 Main Menu Tools: enter into tools interface which contains “Move”and “Check”. About: enter into the interface about printer’s information. 5.2 Tools 1) Move: move the Z aix. 1mm: move the Z aix by the distance of 1mm. 10mm: move the Z aix by the distance of 10mm. - Page 10 Up: move up the Z aix by the selected distance (the selected distance is surrouned by red frame). Down: move down the Z aix by the selected distance. Home: move the Z aix to home position which is the position to print the first layer (A tip dialog will show up to confirm the operation...
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Page 11: About
Back: back to previous menu. 5.3 About About: the information of the printer Version: the version number of system. Temperature: the temperature of LED. Voltage: the drive voltage of LED. Fan speed: the rotate speed of two fans. System ID: the ID of the printer. WIFI IP: the IP of wireless network. -
Page 12: Job
5.4 Job Job: the information of printing job. Status: the status of priting job, which contains priniting, pausing, paused, cancelling, cancelled, completed. Z height: the heigt of Z aix. Elapsed Time: the time has been used. Remaining Time: the time to complete the job. Progress: the current printing layer and the total layer. -
Page 13: Leveling
after the current layer is printed). 5.5 Leveling 1) Turn on the printer, move up the Z aix, take out the building plate, install it as the picture belowed. 2) Loosen the four leveling fixed screws with hexagon wrench 4mm to make the building plate can move along Z axis freely. 3) Loosen the “vat fixed screw”, take down the resin vat, put two pieces of A4 paper on the LCD screen. - Page 14 4) Drag the A4 paper and feel the force of dragging the paper. The leveling is suitable when it needs some force to drag the paper. However, the home position is high when it can drag the paper easily. On the contrary, the home position is low when it needs large force to drag the paper.
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Page 15: Software User Manual
picture. And it needs to add resin manually if the volume of model is bigger than resin left in the vat during printing. Resin should below the line 6 Software User Manual 6.1 PC Requirements Windows 7/8/10, 64-bit 6.2 Network Configuration In order to insure the printer can be connected with software sucessfully by ethernet cable, it needs to configure the netwrok property. - Page 16 ③ ② ① Click the start menu, click setting, select Network & Internet. Click Ethernet, click Change adapter options, select Ethernet and right click, select Properties. Double click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), select Obtain an IP address automatically. ② ①...
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Page 17: Software Installation
6.3 software installation Double click the “IformerwareSetup.exe”, then installation wizard will appear as shown below, click “Next”. Choose install location, click “Install” (the default location is C:\Program File (86)\Iformerware), the installation will begin. www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.com... -
Page 18: Printing Procedure
To complete the installation by clicking “Finish”, the Iformer software will run and create a shortcut on the desktop. 6.4 Printing Procedure 1) Open the stl OR slc model 2) edit the model, such as translate, rotate, scale and clone. 3) fix the error 4) generate support if necessary 5) slice the model... -
Page 19: Main Menu
7) connect to the printer by cable OR wifi network 8) upload the printing job file 9) start the printing 10) take down the model after finished, cleanout the model. 6.5 main menu Menu Bar Tools Bar ● Open View Bar ●... -
Page 20: Open
Print: set the printing parameters, generate and save the printing job. Top view Bottom view Left view Right view View Isometric view Printer Setting: set the resolution and building volume of the printer. Minimize the window. Maximize the window. Close the window. 6.6 Open translate rotate... -
Page 21: Edit
opened by draging it to the software presently ). It needs to open files separately to load different models. Select the model, three submenus appear under the open icon, such as translate, rotate, scale, and a edit dialog shows in the left bottom (The model present blue when selected, otherwise present grey). -
Page 22: Fix
intervals. Scale: select the model and scale icon, input scaling factor or size number in the blank. Or hold down the mouse wheel and scroll up and down. The size of model will change anlong XYZ axis by equal scale. Clone: make a copy of the selected model. -
Page 23: Support
such as Netfabb, Magics, otherwise model can not be printed (https://www.autodesk.com/products/netfabb/free-trial, https://www.materialise.com/en/software/magics). 6.9 Support ② ③ ① Support: Select the model, click support icon, edit the parameters, click Generate icon. Generate: generate support for the selected model. Edit: edit the support parameters, the support positions are showed by purple point. - Page 24 Density: the density of generating support, the bigger value, more support will be generated. The suggested value is between about 0.8. Attaching Point: the diameter of supports that contact model, the bigger diameter, the stronger support, but harder to spin off.
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Page 25: Slice
click Edit icon, then click clone icon. 6.10 Slice ④ ② ③ ① Thickness: the current layer thickness of printing model. Thickness Setting: set the layer thickness, the suggested value is between 20 to 50μm. Advanced Setting: set the layer number of base plate to strong the adhension between model and building platform, the height of base is about 0.3mm, so the layer number is set to when the layer thickness is... -
Page 26: Generating Job File
clicking left and right arrow (the value is 50μm by default), such as 50μm, click start icon to slice the model by setting layer-thickness. Every layer image can be previewed in the window by draging the block in the bottom or input the number of layer in the blank. - Page 27 suffix of lgt. The software autosaves the printing job file to a folder with the same name and directory with the model. Material: the list of photopolymer resin. Add: add a new kind of resin material. Duplicate: make a copy of printing parameters of selected material.
- Page 28 8000 to 12000ms, for the model with fine size. Bottom Time: the exposure time for the bottom height, the longer time, the stronger adhension between model and building platform. The default time is 80000ms. Stable Time: the time between stop motion of Z axis and LCD projection.
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Page 29: Connect
“Scan LCD devices” to scan LCD 3D printer (make sure the ethernet cable is pluged in Orange120 3D printer and computer when use the printer for the first time. It can scan and connect the printer by wifi instead of the ethernet cable if it is connected to wifi network). - Page 30 The serial numbers and IP of scanned printers will show in the dialog. Select the IP, such as 169.254.2.2, click Connect, and a operation interface shows when connected sucessfully as shown below. There are two methods to connect the printer with computer. One way is connected by ethernet cable, the another is by wifi.
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Page 31: Upload Job File
The specific type of wifi IP should refer to the label or mannual of router (the wifi connection operation refers to 6.16). Print Jobs: the process information of printing job, such as job name, elapsed time, remaining time, percent etc, and the operation of pause or stop to the printing job. -
Page 32: Print, Pause, Stop
6.14 Print, Pause, Stop Print: start to print the selected job file (Before each printing, make sure that there is no solid residues on the platform or in the resin vat. Otherwise, the LCD screen may be broken by impact force during printing) . Remove: delete the job file from printable list. - Page 33 Select the printing job from list, a screenshot and printing information of the model appears at the right of the window. Printing job information contains model name, printer resolution, exposure time, separation parameters. Select the job file from printable list, click Print icon.
- Page 34 Started: the time of starting printing. Progress: the current layer and progress of printing. Time to Completion: the time to complete printing job. Elapsed Time: the time has been used to print. Status: the status of printer, such as printing, pausing, paused, cancelling, and cancelled.
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Page 35: Printer Control
cancelled when the current code has been carried out. 6.15 Printer Control Click Printer icon, then click Controls icon to move Z axis (Start is to activate the server of printer; Stop is to cease the server of printer. It does not need to click these icons usually). www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.com... - Page 36 Z axis moves down by clicking the icon with red background, and moves up by clicking the icon with green background. The LCD will project a black and white grid after clicking Show Blank Screen and it needs turn on the LED firstly by Check function through the touch screen, this can be used to check whether the function of LCD projection is well (make sure there is no rein in the vat or building platform during check...
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Page 37: Wifi Connection
6.16 Wifi Connection Click Settings icon, Select a WIFI network from Access Point, input the Password, and click Reconfigure. The SSID and IP of wifi network will show below Available Connections icon when connected successfully. The printer can be connected by wifi if it has been set up. Click Settings icon, then click Scan LCD... -
Page 38: Post-Processing
Language: set the language between English and Chinese. Available Connections: the IP of Ethernet and wifi network. OperationInfo: the electrical information of printer, such as Input voltage, LED fan speed, LED temperature. Input voltage is the working voltage of LED lights. LED fan speed is the rotation speed of LED cooling fan, it is about 5000rpm. - Page 39 hold the building platform and loose the fixed screw, take out the platform carefully. Put the building platform on a plastic paper to prevent resin from sprinkling on the desktop. Remove the model by metal scrapper with attention. Pour the ethanol with 95vol% concentration into a container, immerse the model into ethanol and shake it gently, then swash the model with clear ethanol for better cleaning.
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Page 41: Faq
7. FAQ building platform loosen tighten the building platform home position too high level the platform again platform titled level the platform again Not stick to platform bottom time too short make bottom time is right LED broken check the LED voltage and LED, replace it if broken LCD broken print a job without resin vat to check LCD projection, replace it if broken bottom layer is small... -
Page 42: Attentions And Maintenance
8. Attentions and Maintenance 1) Must wear latex gloves each operation. 2) The photopolymer resin must be kept out reach of children. 3) Before each printing, make sure that there is no solid residue on the platform or in the resin vat. 4) Do not use sharp object to scrape the release film of resin vat. -
Page 43: Printing Cases
9. Printing Cases Printing parameters: Exposure time-6000ms, bottom time-80000ms Layer thickness-50μm, Bottom height-0.3mm Lift Distance1-2mm, Lift Speed1-48mm Lift Distance2-2mm, Lift Speed2-300mm Notes: The model is hollowed to decrease resin consumption, and punched at the bottom to let resin flow out from model. The wall thickness of hollow part is about 1.8-2.0mm.