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Nozzle – this is the component that deposits the molten filament on the hotbed. Nozzles are commonly made from brass or stainless steel and range in sizes from 0.1mm to 1.2mm. Your Ortur-4 is equipped with a .4mm nozzle.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com Part 1: Printer Operations - Setup 1. “Print from SD” Menu: In the Main Menu, the first submenu is “Print from SD”. Press the control button to access the menu. In the “Print from SD” Menu, you will see a list of all Gcode files saved on the SD card. Turn the control button clockwise or counterclockwise to choose the Gcode file you’d like to print.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 2.1 “Move axis” Menu: In the “Motion” Menu, the First Option is the “Move axis” submenu. Press the control button to access. 2.1.1 “Soft Endstops” Option: In the “Move axis” Menu, the First Option is “Soft Endstops” Option. Pressing the control button will turn the “Soft Endstops”...
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 2.1.3 “Move Y” Menu + 2.1.4 “Move Z” Menu+ 2.1.5 “Extruder” Menu: The “Move X”, “Move Y”, and “Move Z” menus all operate the same way. The “Extruder” menu allows you to extrude filament by the selected distance.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 2.5 “Home Z” Command: In the “Motion” Menu, the Fifth Option is the “Home Z” Command. Pressing the control button will return the Z axis to the home position [Z:0]. 2.6 “Bed Leveling” Menu: In the “Motion”...
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 2.6.3 “Edit Mesh” Menu: In the “Bed Leveling” Menu, the Third Option is “Edit Mesh” Menu. This submenu allows you to adjust the detected Z values manually. Most users will not need to use this function and should utilize the automatic option.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 2.6.6 “Probe Z Offset” Menu: In the “Bed Leveling” Menu, the Sixth Option is “Probe Z Offset”. The Probe Z Offset is the distance between nozzle and the hotbed when the auto leveling sensor triggers. For example, if your automatic bed leveling sensor triggers when the nozzle is .4mm from the bed, your Z offset would be around .4mm.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com In the “Bed Leveling” Menu, the Eighth Option is “Store settings” command. If you’re satisfied with the new settings, press the control button to save. 2.7 “Disable Steppers” Command: In the “Motion” Menu, the Seventh Option is the “Disable Steppers” Command. Pressing the control button will disable the stepper motors.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com The Nozzle menu allows you to turn clockwise or counterclockwise to adjust the Target Temperature of Nozzle. After setting the desired temperature, press the control button to begin heating. 3.2 “Bed” Menu: In the “Temperature”...
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com Turn the control knob clockwise or counterclockwise to adjust the target fan speed of the blower fan (part cooling fan). Press the Control Button to turn on the blower fan at the desired speed. Note that the fan speed values range from 0-255, with 0 being off, 127 being approximately 50%, and 255 being 100%.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 3.4.2 “Preheat PLA End” Command: This command preheats only the nozzle to your target PLA temperature. 3.4.3 “Preheat PLA Bed” Command: This command preheats only the hotbed to your target PLA temperature.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 4. “Configuration” Menu: In the Main Menu, the Fourth Submenu is “Configuration” Menu. Press the Control Button to access this submenu. 4.1 “Advanced Settings” Menu: In the “Configuration” Menu, the First Option is “Advanced Setting” Menu.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com Velocity is an advanced setting that controls the speed of your printer’s movements, or the rate of change of position. Most users will not need to modify velocity. 4.1.4 “Acceleration” Menu: Acceleration is an advanced setting that controls the rate of change of speed. Acceleration would typically be modified to compensate for excessive ringing in prints.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 4.1.7 “Temperature” Menu: PS. For the normal users, please don’t change any configuration in this menu. 4.1.8 “Filament” Menu: Most users will not need to modify any settings in this menu. 4.1.9 “Initialize EEPROM” Menu: In the “Advanced Settings”...
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 4.2 “Runout Sensor” Option: In the “Configuration” Menu, the Second Option is “Runout Sensor” Option. You could press the Control Button to turn on or turn off the Filament Run-out Detection Function.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com You can adjust the values for Fan speed, Nozzle Temperature and Hotbed Temperature. Press the control button on “Store settings” to save your settings to the printer’s EEPROM. 4.5 “Preheat ABS Configuration” Menu: In the “Configuration”...
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com In the “Configuration” Menu, the Seventh Option is “Load setting” Command. You could press the Control Button to load the setting, that you had stored at last time. 4.8 “Restore failsafe” Command: In the “Configuration”...
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Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 5.1.2 Second Step: The Nozzle would heat up to the Target Temperature of PLA. 5.1.3 Third Step: The Filament would be unloaded from the Extruder Head automatically. And then, you need to pull out the old PLA Filament from the Extruder by hand.
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Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 5.1.6 Sixth Step: Waiting for the New PLA Filament loaded into the Nozzle. 5.1.7 Seventh Step: Waiting for the Old Fused PLA Filament purged from the Nozzle. 5.1.8 Eighth Step: Choose the “Purge more” Command Or “Continue” Command: If your old color is still extruding, you can purge more until you see the new filament begin properly extruding.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 5.1.9 Ninth Step: Waiting for print to resume. This allows your nozzle to return to the target printing temperature prior to restarting printing. 5.2 “Preheat ABS” Command: It’s Same Operation as {“Preheat PLA” Command}.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com Phase 2: The Operation Menu During Printing: Pressing the control button while printing will present a different set of menus and options for adjusting and controlling print settings. 6. “Pause print” Command: “Pause print”...
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com In the “Tune” Menu, the First Option is “Speed” Menu. Rotate the control button clockwise or counterclockwise to speed up or down the print by the set percentage. 8.2 “Nozzle” Menu: In the “Tune” Menu, the Second Option is “Nozzle” Menu.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 8.3 “Bed” Menu: In the “Tune” Menu, the Third Option is “Bed” Menu. Rotate the control button clockwise or counterclockwise to increase or decrease the nozzle temperature. Note that all temperatures are in degrees Celsius.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 8.5 “Flow” Menu: In the “Tune” Menu, the Fifth Option is “Flow” Menu. You could press the Control Button to go to this menu. And turn clockwise or counterclockwise the Control Button to turn the flow up and lower by percentage.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 8.7 “Babystep Y” Menu: In the “Tune” Menu, the Seventh Option is “Babystep Y” Menu. You could press the Control Button to go to this menu. And turn clockwise or counterclockwise the Control Button to adjust the Y Value a little bit.
Dongguan Ortur Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. www.ortur3d.com www.ortur3dprinter.com 9. “Configuration” Menu: In the Main Menu, the Fourth Option is “Configuration” Menu. This will bring you to the same “Configuration” Menu” referenced in Section 4 of this manual. 10. “Change filament” Command: In the Main Menu, the Fifth Option is “Change filament”...
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