Smartspool System - Stratasys FORTUS 360mc Manual

FORTUS 360mc/400mc and FDM 360mc/400mc User Guide
3.
LED Indicators
There is one colored LED light above each canister. The LED indicates the
canister condition for each bay
• 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
status of the canister material. Canister information is reported to the
system and displayed on the user panel.
A.
The system user display provides basic canister information.
• Type of material.
• Estimated amount of material remaining.
B.
The system user display prompts you if one of the material
canisters is not in a 'ready state' (flashing green LED).
C.
When you choose to build a CMB file (see
Modeler" on
within the CMB file to the canister information.
a.
The CMB file material type is compared to the system canister
material type. If the materials do not match, the user display
prompts you to change the system materials to the appropriate
type.
• You can choose to 'Continue' the build with the mis-
(Figure
page 5-7), the system compares stored information
matched material type, but part build quality will be
unpredictable.
3-13):
(Figure 3-15) that tracks the
"Sending a Part to the
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