Opening The Hood; Xy Gantry Assembly - Stratasys FDM Vantage Series User Manual

Machine Components

Opening the Hood

You can open the hood, located on the top of the machine, to access the XY Gantry
and the Head. The hood consists of two separate entry doors, the hood door and the
hood lid. Both doors share a safety switch and a continuous solenoid. The hood doors
remain locked at all times and can only be unlocked by performing an Open Hood/
Door command, which allows you to manually open the hood doors. The Open Hood/
Door command also unlocks the oven door allowing you to manually open it.
Once the hood lid or hood door is opened, the machine cannot be resumed nor can
any manual move command be sent until both the hood lid and hood door are closed.
To inform you of this, the screen will flash Hood/Door not closed. Once the hood lid
and hood door are closed, the screen will return to its previous state and you will need
to re-enter your last command.
Note: The hood lid must be closed before closing the hood door.

XY Gantry Assembly

The Gantry maneuvers the head in the X and Y directions when building a part. The
XY Gantry assembly is located under the top hood of the machine. The entire gantry
is outside of the oven. Only the bottom of the head protrudes into the oven. The gantry
and its drive motors are thermally shielded from the oven via bellows.
To move the head, the XY gantry utilizes one X and one Y servo motor attached to
timing belts, as shown in the following figure.
X Axis Servo Motor
X Carriage Assembly
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Head Assembly
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Y Axis Servo Motor
Y Carriage
Assembly