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- Page 2 Follow us online! facebook.com/lpfrg twitter.com/Leapfrog_3D instagram.com/leapfrog_3d Sign up for our newsletter www.lpfrg.com...
- Page 3 You are now officially part of The Ecosystem: the place where all Leapfrog 3D printer users gather to help each other and to interact with the Leapfrog 3D Printers support team. Here are a few valu- able tips on what you are able to find there.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
Table of content Making your very first 3D print – Quick Print Guide Unpacking your Creatr HS and finding the right place for it Getting to know your printer Plugging in your Creatr HS Preheating the printer Loading filament Checking and adjusting the bed... -
Page 6: Making Your Very First 3D Print - Quick Print Guide
(although in some cases decalibration might occur during transport). These steps you only have to follow when your brand new Creatr HS arrives at your doorstep for the first time. Before you start, make sure that you have cleared a spot where you want to place the printer. We advise you to find a place at room temperature, where there is no draft (for example next to a win- dow) and where the printer cannot get wet. - Page 7 STEP 2: Pull off the tape from the plastic bag wrap on the top of the printer and push the plastic down and away from the printer. NOTE: Do NOT grab the Creatr HS by the top cover as this can damage it.
- Page 8 USB-A cable with the built in FTDI chip that is included in the box. Any other USB might interfere with the communication. STEP 5: Plug the power cord in the outlet and turn on your Creatr HS. 1.4. Preheating the printer Before you start loading your filament, it is necessary to preheat your printer.
- Page 9 STEP 13: To go back to the main menu turn the button counter-clockwise. 1.6. Checking and adjusting the bed Each Creatr HS is carefully calibrated before it leaves Leapfrog 3D Printers’ headquarters. How- ever, during transport, calibration might get shifted. Calibration means that your extruder is at the correct distance from the bed to print smoothly, and that your bed is exactly levelled.
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Page 10: Printing
In the next paragraph you are going to start printing. During this print you can manually adjust the bed while printing. Check if the bed is levelled during the first 2 or 3 layers of the print and verify if the filament is adhering well to the bed. -
Page 11: Preparing For Your Next Print
2.1 Removing your print and replacing your print sticker The print bed of the Creatr HS is made out of glass to ensure that it is as flat as possible. However, it is sometimes difficult to keep your print stuck to it. To make sure that your print sticks to the bed, you need to apply a print sticker. - Page 12 STEP 4: Apply the new sticker 2.2 Changing filament If you are ready to use a different role of filament for your next print, follow these steps to remove your current role of filament. STEP 1: Preheat your printer by selecting the preheat icon in your screen and pushing the button.
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Page 13: Creating Your Own Printable File: From Stl To Gcode
3. Creating your own printable file: from STL to gcode In this chapter we will teach you how to ‘slice’ (create your own 3D printable file named ‘gcode’) us- ing your 3D model (or ‘stl’) as input. The slicing software we will be using to do so is Simplify3d. In the gcode, all movements of your printer and characteristics of the different layers are encrypt- ed. - Page 14 3D file into a printable gcode. Leapfrog 3D Printers provides standard print settings to print with the filaments we provide. These standard settings can be uploaded in Simplify3d and are used to slice your 3D file into a printable gcode.
- Page 15 TIP: The standard print settings for each material are divided in categories: there is a trade-off between quality and speed of getting a part. Before printing you need to ask yourself what is of more importance to you: would you like to receive your part as fast as possible with a rougher finish? Choose fast printing.
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Page 16: Printing With Dual Extrusion And Support Materials
3.5 Printing with dual extrusion and support materials Your Creatr HS has two extruders, which means that you can print with two materials in one print. For some users this might mean two different colours of the same material, for others this means printing with two different types of materials. - Page 17 It will be difficult to remove if your print is small. Soluble support is only possible if you have two extruders (with your Creatr HS you are the lucky owner of a dual extrusion 3D printer). The advantage of soluble support is that you can dissolve your support structure after printing, and it hardly leaves any marks on the surface of your print.
- Page 18 3.5.2 Applying support structures to your stl model You can either define the support structures manually or you can have Simplify3d place support for you on all parts where there is a 45 degrees overhang. It is beneficial to use the minimum amount of support structures that are required as this will keep the surface of your print as smooth as pos- sible.
- Page 19 Printing with dual extrusion: allocating the right process to the correct extruder . Printing with dual extrusion: allocating the right process to the correct extruder . The key to printing in two different colours is that you need two different STL files; one for each color.
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Page 20: Material Guide
‘support extruder’ tab under ‘support’ . 3.6 Material guide In this section we will discuss the materials that Leapfrog 3D Printers offer and give you a general idea on how to use them. -
Page 21: Overview Advanced Print Settings
3.8 Controlling your printer with Simplify3d – printing while connected to your computer While the Creatr HS is a standalone 3D printer, which can print with the input from a USB stick, you can also opt to use it connected to your computer. If you want to calibrate your printer with your computer, connecting is necessary. - Page 22 The following are some functionalities of controlling your printer directly with Simplify3d: In the “machine control panel” (to be accessed below “tools” in the menu bar) you can: • Move your print bed and nozzles over the three axes using ‘jog controls’ •...
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Page 23: Recalibrating Your Printer Using Simplify3D
3.9 Recalibrating your printer using Simplify3D If small manual adjustments during the first layers of a print are not sufficient to calibrate the bed, it is best to recalibrate the bed using Simplify3D. STEP 1: Connect your printer to Simplify3D as described in Section 3.7 and go to ‘jog controls’... -
Page 24: Frequently Asked Questions
4. Frequently Asked Questions Although our instructions in this manual are of course highly brilliant ;-) we can imagine that you run into some questions while you are printing. This section of the manual is devoted to that. Note that you can find much more help and support in The Ecosystem, which you can access through creatrhs.lpfrg.com/. - Page 25 4.5 Where do I go with my other questions? As a Leapfrog 3D printer owner, you are now officially part of The Ecosystem: the place where all Leapfrog 3D printer users gather to help each other and to interact with the Leapfrog 3D Printers support team.
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Page 26: Glossary Of 3D Printing Vocabulary
Extruding is the term for the process during which filament feeds through the nozzle. It is the op- posite of retracting. Extruder handle The extruder handles are the two parts at the back of your Creatr HS that you pull out to feed the filament through. FDM or FFF Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) or Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is the 3D printing tech- nique that is used in your Creatr HS. - Page 27 The nozzle is the part of the extruder where the filaments exits from: The default nozzle orifice diameter of the Creatr HS is 0.35mm, but this part can be replaced with different sizes to create a larger or smaller flow of filament.
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Page 28: Getting To Know Your Printer
5.2 Getting to know your printer The Creatr HS positioned at the back of the printer Glossary of 3D printing vocabulary... - Page 29 1. Printing head and extruders 2. Filament guiding tubes 3. Filament drive unit 5. Print bed 6. Print bed levelling knobs 4. Axes 7. Display 8. Quick release knob 9. USB port for USB stick (front) 10. USB port for computer (back) 11.
- Page 30 Leapfrog 3D Printers H. Kamerlingh Onnesweg 10 PO Box 252 2408 AW Alphen aan den Rijn The Netherlands T +31 (0)172 503 625 W www.lpfrg.com E info@lpfrg.com Making your very first 3D print – Quick Print Guide © Leapfrog 3D Printers...
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