Difference between revisions of "ZCorp"

Revision as of 14:11, 20 September 2011

Technical specifications

• Printable volume: 250mm, 350mm, 200mm (width, depth, height).
• Layer thickness: 0,0875 to 0,125mm.
• Color 3D Printer: mostly used in monochrome mode.

CAM

• Cam here

Tools

• Tools here

Materials and configuration

• Materials and configuration here

Machine workflow

• Turn on the computer.
• Turn on the machine.
• Check the binder level. Fill all four tanks with binder at least over the binder extraction pipes at the back side of the tanks. Don't fill them too much since the binder ages in the tank.
• Close the caps softly, don't apply pressure.
• Check the cleaning tank levels at the center bottom part of the machine: the left one (cleaning liquid) should be almost full and the right one (residual liquid) should be empty or almost empty.
• Check the powder recycling can (bottom right side of the machine). Use this powder in order to fill the printing bed.
• Prepare the printing bed.
  • 1. Take the machine offline pressing the 'online' button.
  • 2. Open the machine hood.
  • 3. Move down the material container pressing the left down arrow button (Feed) and fill it with printing powder. Remove the air in the powder shaking carefully with the tools provided (inside the bottom left compartment).
  • 4. Flatten and compress the powder once the container is full.
  • 5. Bring up the printing bed pressing the right top arrow (Build). The bed should stay a few millimeters below the top level of the container frame.
  • 6. Flattening!!??
• Close the machine hood.
• Put the machine online pressing the 'online' button.
• Run the ZPrint software.
• Open your STL file, select the units for your model, and the powder type (ZP150). The STL file should be a proper closed volume model with coherent normals.
• Move, scale and rotate the model as you want in order to optimize the printing process. Try to foresee the difficulties that you will encounter in the removal process as the printed parts are very fragile.
• Take a look at the 2D mode in order to check if the material distribution is like you expect it to be.
• Go to 'Print setup' and select the proper printer, powder type and layer thickness (default to 0,0875mm).
• Print the file (Ctrl+P).
• Control the process and make sure that the binder is beeing distributed homogeneously without 'dry stripes'. If this stripes apear, some maintenance or replacement of the printing heads should take place.

Important commands

• Important commands here

External links

• External links here