Fill Resin Tray With Material; Resin Tray Material Cross-Usage - 3D Systems FIGURE 4 MODULAR User Manual

11. Always ensure that the Resin Tray is not damaged in any way, particularly on the membrane. Resin-tray damage could
cause build failure and/or material leakage. Resin-tray damage can be: membrane puncture, dent, scratch, discoloration,
and damage to the frame (cracks, chips, etc.)
12. If the printer will be sitting idle for more than a few days: Remove the Resin Tray from the printer or cover it with the garage
lid. Whenever the Resin Tray is removed, or covered inside the machine, place the red cap onto the material-delivery tube's
fitting above the Resin Tray. You should also place the red cap onto the tubing anytime you remove the material-delivery
tube from its holder above the Resin Tray.

6.5.2 Fill Resin Tray with Material

The 3D Systems Installer should have performed the initial fill and priming of the resin tray in your Printers. After this initial fill,
the machine will automatically pump more material into the resin tray as needed before a print job. The machine will alert you
when a cartridge is near empty, and then further when it is completely empty. Please follow the instructions in the section
Material Cartridges to remove the old cartridge and install a new one.
There may be some cases, such as after installing a new resin tray, when you must fill the resin tray from empty. The following
sections describe how to do this.
6.5.2.1 Fill Resin Tray from Empty
Before beginning this procedure, ensure that:
1. A cartridge with material inside
2. A clean catch tray is installed and fully seated
3. A clean resin tray is installed and tensioned
4. The upper-build-chamber door is fully closed.
5. The printer is not printing, booting up, or doing a material changeover.
6. The red cap is removed from the material-delivery tube and placed in its holder.
Please follow the steps below to fill the resin tray from empty.
1. If you completed items 1-5 above, the MDM will begin
pumping material into the resin tray. Observe this process
to ensure that material does not fill over the MAX line.
Note: The material fill rate depends on the
viscosity of the material. Thin materials will
fill the tray up quicker than thick materials
do. Be patient, as some materials may take
several minutes to begin flowing into the
tray, and then more time to fill it up.
CAUTION: If material continues to flow over the
MAX indication on the resin tray, hit the front
power switch or open the upper-build-chamber
door to stop material flow. Contact 3D Systems
Service, as a sensor could be malfunctioning.
2. When the material reaches the minimum allowable level,
you will see the Mark as ready screen on the local display of
the Printer.
Dosing During Printing
If you have a particularly large build that uses a lot of material, you may notice the printer pumping more material into the tray
during printing. The resin tray will not fill to the maximum fill level, but will rather pump smaller doses of material into the tray,
as needed, until the build finishes. Once you have removed your build and replaced the print platform, the printer will fill the
resin tray back up to its maximum fill level.

6.5.3 Resin Tray Material Cross-Usage

In general, you will not be using a resin tray on a Printer other than the one it was originally installed on. However, there may
be some cases in which you might need to move a resin tray to another Printer. If you do this, even if you clean the resin tray
thoroughly after removal, residual elements of the previous print material cannot be reliably fully removed. Because of this, a
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