Smartspool System - Stratasys Fortus 360mc User Manual

3.
LED Indicators
There is one colored LED light above each canister. The LED indicates the canister condition
for each bay (Figure
• Green – Steady. Material filament has been loaded into the liquefiers. You
cannot remove the canister when the LED is a steady green.
• Green – Flashing (Ready state). Filament has been fed into the canister drive
block but is not loaded into the liquefiers. You can unload canisters if
necessary.
• Red – Steady. The canister is empty. You can unload the canister if necessary.
• Red – Flashing. The canister has a load failure or a smart-spool-chip
read/write failure. You can unload canisters if necessary.
• Off. No canister is present, or the canister is present but the filament has not
been fed into the canister drive block.

SmartSpool System

1.
The 360mc/400mc uses the SmartSpool system to give you canister
information. This allows you to manage material resources, and maximize
part build strategies for long, unattended part builds.
2.
Each canister contains an encoded chip
the canister material. Canister information is reported to the system and
displayed on the user panel.
A.
B.
Figure 3-14: Drive Block Lever
Drive Lever
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The system user display provides basic canister information.
• Type of material.
• Estimated amount of material remaining.
The system user display prompts you if one of the material canisters is not
in a 'ready state' (flashing green LED).
Drive Block
(Figure 3-15) that tracks the status of
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