ARDUINO MATERIA 101 USER MANUAL REVISION 01 OCTOBER 13, 2014
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 WELCOME TO 3D PRINTING ARDUINO.CC/MATERIA101 © 2011-2015 Arduino LLC. All rights reserved. The Arduino name and logo are trademarks of Arduino, registered in the US and in the rest of the world. Other product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies. Materia 101 is designed by Sharebot for Arduino.
00 3 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 INDEX 05 06 07 Technical Support Technical Specifications Warning: Temperature 18 04 – Setting the printer 19 Loading the filament 19 Preparing the printing bed 19 Learning to set up the plate 19 Calibration 20 Regulating final leg of axis Z 08 01 – Preliminary Operations 20 Calibrating axes X and Y 09 Anatomy of Arduino Materia 101 20 09 Opening the package Recovering of scraps and usage of M99 (software calibration) 09 Positioning the pr
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 31 08 – Consideration about model orientation 32 Orientation 32 Just one object? 32 Supports 33 Printing Details 35 09 – Ordinary Manutention 36 Cleaning the printer 36 Printing bed 36 Stretcher 36 Nozzle 36 Lubrification 36 Putting in tension the belts 36 A correct ventilation 37 Updating the firmware
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 TECHNICAL SUPPORT If you have any problems in using our printers, the procedure to be followed is as follows: — Check the manual and guides available on the web site; — Contact the dealer from which you purchased the machine; — Contact technical support by filling out the form beside remember to fill in all fields. Our technicians will get in touch with you within 3 working days.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Printing technology: Fused Filament Fabrication Mono extruder printing volume: 140 x 100 x 100 mm +/- 5mm Theorical positioning resolution axes X and Y: 0,06 mm Positioning resolution axis Z: 0,0025 mm Extruder hole diameter: 0, 35 mm Filament to be extruded diameter: 1,75 mm PLA best extruding temperatures: 200-230° Tested and supported printing filament: PLA Experimented printing filaments: Cristal Flex, PLA Termosense, Poliuretano Termoplastico
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 ATTENTION TEMPERATURE The fusion and extrusion system of the thermoplastic filament requires a heated end up to temperatures of 250 degrees and more. The contact, even for a very limited time, with the heated part causes burns. You must avoid to put your hands or other body parts in the printing area when printing and for minutes after the printing process is over. The current temperature of the extruder is indicated on the LCD screen.
01 8 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 PRELIMINAR OPERATIONS Your Arduino Materia 101 is equipped with a series of accessories that allow you to make it immediately operative.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 ANATOMY OF ARDUINO MATERIA 101 Your professional 3D printer Arduino Materia 101 is a tool of precision, ideated, developed and assembled in Italy by qualified staff. Before leaving the factory it was submitted to a quality control and to a quality test that guarantees its operation. It’s very important, before you can use the printer, knowing all the technical terms used in this handbook and identify all the specific components that form a Arduino Materia 101. Fig. 1: 1.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 ASSEMBLING THE REEL-CARRIER For assembling the reel-carrier please see chapter 3, figures 9, 10 and 11 of the manual Assembly, recalling that the wire must carry out unhindered and in the direction of the extruder. UNBLOCKING THE EXTRUDER To avoid damage during transport, the blocking of the extruder is secured with clamps. The clamps must be carefully cut and removed to allow the extruder to move freely.
02 11 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 PROCESS OF 3D PRINTING Before you start printing with your Arduino Materia 101 it’s important to understand how you arrive at a finished object.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 Before you start printing with your Arduino Materia 101 it is important to understand how you arrive at a finished object. This allows you not only to know what you need to do to give form and substance to your ideas, but it helps you to identify any constraints and limitations of the technology used by this printer. In the table (FIg.1, page 17) we summarized the steps required to obtain a 3D printing.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 Each slice contains the movements on two axes, moving the press plane and motor commands that extrudes the molten plastic to create one after another the layers that make up the object. At the end of each layer file commands move the Z-axis by lowering the print of that plan just enough to add the new layer.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 Printing Steps Table Printing Environment Operation Output — Common used CAD software — Design the object — Common used format for your file — Common used CAD software — Import/save file in .stl format (or .obj) — File .stl — Slic3r Software — Generate command file for3D printer — File .gcode — 3D Printer: Arduino Materia 101 — Select file and preloaded filament profile — Printed object Fig.
03 15 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 LCD PANEL Arduino Materia 101 is a printer that supports both stand-alone operation and control from one computer (OS X, Windows or Linux). In both cases the LCD Panel provides functions both for consultation which edited.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 Arduino Materia 101 is a printer that supports both stand-alone operation and control from one computer (OS X, Windows or Linux). In both cases the LCD Panel provides functions both for consultation which edited. INFORMATIVE MODE When the printer is on, he is by printing or waiting for a job, on the 4 rows (composed by 20 characters with the following information (Fig.1): The first line contains the actual extruder temperature followed by one set.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 movement of the extruder on the plane. In practice, you have complete control and can perform all management and maintenance operations. In the next chapter we will use this menu to adjust the printing surface.
04 18 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 SETTING THE PRINTER Your Arduino Materia 101 is a mechanical device built with care both in design and in the assembly.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 Your Arduino Materia 101 is a mechanical device built with care both in design and in the Assembly. To keep it in a State of optimal functioning is necessary to compensate for some normal processes of adjustment, for example, due to repeated thermal cycles of extruder motors. With each print, the entire machinery is subject to vibrations and movements that in the long run can loosen the four screws that hold the printing bed.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 means that you have a game on the Y-axis. CALIBRATION The steps in the installation manual chapter 3e, figures 14 and 15, consists in printing of rectangles made with one layer on top, allowing you to assess the adhesion of the material to the print and to figure out if the plan is leveled properly observing the extrusion width must be equal at all points of the perimeter.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 PUTTING IN TENSION THE EXTRUDER’S RUBBER BANDS Your Arduino Materia 101 is equipped with a cushioned versus pulley sprocket wire drag. This solution allows to compensate for thickness variations that some filaments can have, allowing you to bring the press anyway. The correct tension of the compensating Springs allows optimum filament drive Select the display “Prepare” menu the option “Change filament”.
05 22 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 OUR FIRST PRINT FROM A SD CARD If you have followed the instructions in this manual, you’ve already developed your Arduino Materia 101.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 If you have followed the instructions in this manual, you’ve already developed your Arduino Materia 101 by placing it on a table with reel-carrier, you connected the power supply, and you have turned on the printer, did the printing bed calibration and you have also uploaded the plot strand. Now you can proceed to your first print. THE SD CARD In the box you find the plastic container with your SD memory card.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 slowly) or a model that can be achieved at higher speed. Another important parameter is the flow rate that percentage increases or decreases the amount of material extruded, compensating for any changes in the diameter of the wire than that stated by the manufacturer. The flow rate can also thicken or thin the walls of the model. The “Fan Speed” voice makes it possible to adjust the airflow on the piece in print.
06 25 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 CREATING G-CODE FILES As well as modeling software, also for slicing software we have available a wide range of programs: from free and open source ones, until those paid professional.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 As well as modeling software, also for slicing software we have available a wide range of programs: from free and open source ones, until those paid professional. Between the free ones, we have selected Slic3r as reference slicing software, for his versatility that makes it usable by both beginners and professional users. SLIC3R By Alessandro Ranellucci, it’s an open source slicing software; it could be downloaded in our download section on our website www. arduino.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 determines the printing resolution (for z-curves) and, consequently, the printing time. The preset value is 0, 2 mm and is a good compromise between speed and quality, but you can go up to 0.05 mm or growing up to 0.35 mm. — Filling: next menu “infill” the voice “fill density” expresses the percentage of filling the template. You can set values from a minimum of 5% to a maximum of 100%.
07 28 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 MATERIALS AND PRINTING PLATE One of the most critical elements in current 3D printers is the superficial treatment of the printing.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 One of the most critical elements in current 3D printers is the superficial treatment of the printing plate. When you extrude the filament, the first layer is crushed by the brass tip on the surface of the plate; If the contact surface is able to create a good bond with the molten plastic can continue printing with solid bases.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 Attributable PLA Tips Material Attributable ABS HIPS Extrusion temperature: 235° Plate temperature 90° Fan Off Smart ABS Extrusion temperature : 260° Plate temperature: 90° Fan Off Nylon Extrusion Temperature 240°-265° Plate Temperature: 90° Printable perfectly on garolite phenolics.
08 31 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 CONSIDERATION ABOUT MODEL ORIENTATION The possibilities offered by your Arduino Materia 101 are very broad, but like all technological tools, this must be understood and used by applying various measures over time more and more sophisticated.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 The possibilities offered by your Arduino Materia 101 are very broad, but like all technological tools, this must be understood and used by applying various measures over time more and more sophisticated. 3D printing technology, promises to create any shape but are frequent cases where a print ends with a big disappointment.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 parameters. Depending on the parameters and the shape of the model, and then create support structures read, so having a filament support. At the end of printing, with some patience, you remove these structures and the piece remains clean and with the shapes you want. Here is an example of an object that requires the supports accompanied by the G-Code generated with these supports. The supports are vertical structures under the cheekbones and inside of the orbits.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 It should be also considered that the minimum thickness of the walls is recommended for vertical 1.05 mm consisting of three accomplished perimeters of the extruder.
09 35 User Manual Arduino Materia 101 ORDINARY MANUTENTION Arduino Materia 101 does not require any special maintenance, but like all machinery, efficiency increases if kept clean.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 CLEANING THE PRINTER Arduino Materia 101 does not require any special maintenance, but, like all machinery, efficiency increases if kept clean. PRINTING BED The first layer of the object we print is essential to the success of the press: for this reason the printing floor must be perfectly smooth, with a uniform layer of lacquer applied.
User Manual Arduino Materia 101 provided along with the firmware. If your printer is doing strange movements don’t want, or do not correspond to the cycles described in the manual, contact our support service describing the problem, might require an update to the latest firmware.
