LONGER Technology Orange10 LCD 3D Printer User Manual Version1.0 www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.
Contents 1. Introduction............................................................................................................................ 1 2. Specifications......................................................................................................................... 2 3. Product Overview.................................................................................................................. 3 3.1 The 3D printer description......................................................
1. Introduction This user manual is provided to the operator with necessary and detailed instructions for safe and correct operation, software, maintenance, troubleshooting of Orange10 LCD 3D printer. This manual document must be read carefully before installation and operation of the printer. The non-compliance with warnings and instructions may result in printer damage or individual injury. And the user should be solely responsible for the damage or failure caused by failure to follow the instructions.
2. Specifications Equipment Model Orange10 Printing Technology LCD stereolithography Build Size 9855140mm Layer Thickness 0.02-0.10mm LCD Resolution 854480 pixel, 115μm Z axis Resolution 0.625μm Build Speed 30mm/h (（100μm layer thickness）) Material Photopolymer Resin Light Source UV LED 405nm Software LONGER Operation System Windows 7/8/10, 64-bit Connectivity TF card Format STL Screen 2.8 inch touch screen Dimension 6.7"6.7"14.2" (170170360mm) Net Weight 5.
3. Product Overview 3.1 The 3D printer description Hood Z aix Building platform fixed screw Leveling fixed screw Building platform Vat fixed screw Touch screen TF card Thermal via Power port Switch www.longer3d.com 3 info@longer3d.
3.2 The accessory box TF Card1 Power Adapter1 Filtering Funnel2 Latex Gloves2 Scraper1 Photopolymer Resin 250mL1 Card5 Release Film1 ● ● ● ● ● ● Screw Kits1 Hexagon Wrench 1.5mm Hexagon Wrench 2mm Hexagon Wrench 2.5mm Hexagon Wrench 3mm Hexagon Wrench 4mm 4. Active Your 3D Printer Put the printer on a flat platform. Make sure that the printer is stable. Connect power cable and power adapter. Plug into the electronic power and switch on the printer. www.longer3d.com 4 info@longer3d.
5 Touch Screen Description 5.1 Main Menu Home: enter into tools interface which contains “File” and “Setting”. File: the list of printing files, and selection of file to print. Setting: move the Z axis; check LCD and LED; information of the printer. 5.2 File File: list all printing job files of TF card. The file’s suffix is lgs. Previous page. Next page. Start to print the selected file. www.longer3d.com 5 info@longer3d.
Back to home page. Confirm the start printing. Cancel the printing operation. Select the file to print from the list, the selected file will be surrounded by red frame. Click the START, a pop-up window appears to confirm the operation. Choose YES to start the printing, or select NO to cancel the printing. www.longer3d.com 6 info@longer3d.
5.3 Job Pausing Paused Printing process of current layer and total layers. Remaining time to printing completion. Elapsed time from start printing. Real-time temperature of LED PCB. Pause the printing job. The status will change to pausing when start to pause, and switch to paused after the current layer is printed over. Cancel the printing job, the progress will be stopped at once, the Z axis moves up about 40mm. And it will be back to home page after cancelled. Resume the printing job. www.longer3d.
Real-time printing status. Confirm the stop printing. Cancel the stop operation. 5.4 Setting 1) Move: move the Z axis. 50 10 Move up the Z axis. Move down the Z axis. Move the Z axis by 1mm (change move distance by clicking the button). Move the Z axis by 10mm. Move the Z axis by 50mm. www.longer3d.com 8 info@longer3d.
Move the Z axis to the home position. Stop the motion immediately. Back to home page. 2) LED Turn on the LED light and a white picture will be showed to confirm that the LCD and LED are ok (make sure there is no resin in the vat, otherwise the resin will be cured). Turn off the LED light. Real-time temperature of LED PCB. Back to home page. 5.5 More About: the information of the printer www.longer3d.com 9 info@longer3d.
Printer Model: the model number of the printer. Temperature: the temperature of LED. Serial Number: the ID of the printer. Firmware Version: the version of printer’s firmware. 5.6 Leveling 1) Turn on the printer, move up the Z axis, take out the building plate, install it as the picture as shown below. 2) Loosen the four leveling fixed screws with hexagon wrench 4mm to make the building plate can move along Z axis freely. www.longer3d.com 10 info@longer3d.
3) Loosen the “vat fixed screw”, take down the resin vat, and put a pieces of A4 paper on the LCD screen. Move down the building platform to home position, press and hold it, then fasten the leveling fixed screws diagonally. 4) Drag the A4 paper and feel the force of dragging the paper. The leveling is suitable when it needs some force to drag the paper. However, the home position is high when it can drag the paper easily.
Pull Pull 5) Move up the building platform when the adjustment of home position is finished. Then, install the resin vat, tighten the vat fixed screw, pour into the resin. It needs to add resin manually if the volume of model is bigger than resin left in the vat during printing. 6 Software User Manual 6.1 PC Requirements Windows 7/8/10, 64-bit; MAC 6.2 software installation Double click the “LONGERWARESetup.exe”, the installation wizard will appear as shown below, click “Next”.
C:\Program File (86)\longerware), the installation will begin. To complete the installation by clicking “Finish”, the slice software will run and create a shortcut on the desktop. www.longer3d.com 13 info@longer3d.
6.4 Printing Procedure 1) Open the stl model. 2) Edit the model, such as translate, rotate, scale and clone. 3) Fix the error. 4) Generate support if necessary. 5) Slice the model. 6) Generate and save the printing job file to TF card. 7) Connect to the TF card to printer. 8) Select the printing file and start to print 9) Take down the model after completed, cleanout the model. www.longer3d.com 14 info@longer3d.
6.5 main menu Tools Bar ● Open ● Edit Menu Bar ● Open View Bar ● Delete ● Fix ● Support Building Volume ● Slice ● Print Building Platform Model Menu Bar Tools Bar www.longer3d.com Open: load the stl model. Delete: delete the selected model. Open: load the stl model. Edit: translate, rotate, scale the model. Fix: check and fix the model error. 15 info@longer3d.
Support: generate and edit the support. Slice: slice the model. Print: set the printing parameter, generate and save the printing job. Top view Bottom view Left view Right view View Isometric view Bar Printer Setting: select the kind of printer. Minimize the window. Maximize the window. Close the window. 6.6 Open translate rotate scale ② ③ www.longer3d.com ① 16 info@longer3d.
Click Open icon to load stl model. It needs to open files separately to load different models. Select the model, three submenus appear under the open icon, such as translate, rotate, scale, and an edit dialog shows in the left bottom (The model presents blue when selected, otherwise presents grey). A popup window “model is out of range, please scale it” will show if the size of the model exceeds building volume in some dimensions. It needs to scale model when the size is out of range. 6.
Reset: recover to the original status. Maximize: the model change to maximum size within building volume. 6.8 Fix Fix: check out the error(s) of the selected model, such as holes, non-manifold, inverted normal, and click Fix to auto-repair the error(s). If there are some errors that cannot be repaired by software, it needs to use other professional software to fix, such as Netfabb, Magics, otherwise model cannot be printed (https://www.autodesk.com/products/netfabb/free-trial, https://www.materialise.
6.9 Support ② ③ ① Support: Select the model, click support icon, edit the parameters, click Generate icon. Generate: generate support for the selected model. Edit: edit the support parameters, the support positions are showed by purple point. Add support by left click at desired position of the model; delete support by left click the purple point. It can rotate the model by holding down the right mouse, and drag the model by holding down the mouse wheel. Delete: delete the support of selected model.
support position Shaft Diameter: the diameter of support column, the larger value, the stronger support, but more difficult to remove. The suggested value is about 0.8. Lift Distance: the distance between the model and building platform is lifted by generating support. The suggested value is between 0 to 3mm. Default: recover support parameters to original values. Make a copy of supported model: select the model with support, click Edit icon, then click clone icon. www.longer3d.com 20 info@longer3d.
6.10 Slice ④ ② ③ ① Thickness: the current layer thickness of printing model. Thickness Setting: set the layer thickness, the suggested value is between 20 to 100μm. Advanced Setting: set the layer number of base plate to strong the adhesion between model and building platform, the height of base is about 0.3mm, so the layer number is set to 6 when the layer thickness is 50μm; and sets to 3 layers when layer thickness is 100μm.
image can be previewed in the window by dragging the block in the bottom or input the number of layer in the blank. 6.11 Generating Job File Choose the same material type as printing material from material list; click Start to generate a printing job file with a file suffix of lgt. The software auto saves the printing job file to a folder with the same name and directory with the model. www.longer3d.com 22 info@longer3d.
Material: the list of photopolymer resin. Add: add a new kind of resin material. Duplicate: make a copy of printing parameters of selected material. Delete: delete the selected material from list. Save: save the change to the printing parameters of selected material. Exposure: the parameters about exposure. Exposure Time: the exposure time to cure a layer thickness of photopolymer resin except bottom layers. The default time is 6000ms for curing 50μm layer thickness.
The default time is 80000ms. Stable Time: the time between stop motion of Z axis and LCD projection. The default time is 1000ms Bottom Height: the height that is over cured for increasing the adhesion between model and building platform. The default height is 0.3mm. Lift Distance1: the slow motion distance for separation. The default distance value is 2mm. Lift Speed1: the separation speed for slow motion range. The default speed is 48mm/min.
building platform and loose the fixed screw, take out the platform carefully. Put the building platform on a plastic paper to prevent resin from sprinkling on the desktop. Remove the model by metal scrapper with attention. Pour the ethanol with 95vol% concentration into a container, immerse the model into ethanol and shake it gently, then swash the model with clear ethanol for better cleaning. Dry the model with compressed air and cure it with UV curing box if possible to achieve better hardness.
7. FAQ The screen of slice software is black Not stick to platform Model broken www.longer3d.
8. Attentions and Maintenance 1) Must wear latex gloves each operation. 2) The photopolymer resin must be kept out reach of children. 3) Before each printing, make sure that there is no solid residue on the platform or in the resin vat. 4) Do not use sharp object to scrape the release film of resin vat. 5) Hold the building platform when tighten and loosen it. 6) Keep the printer cover closed during usage. 7) Clean up the resin vat before the change of a new kind resin.
9. Printing Cases Printing parameters: Exposure time-6000ms, bottom time-80000ms Layer thickness-50μm, Bottom height-0.3mm Lift Distance1-2mm, Lift Speed1-48mm Lift Distance2-2mm, Lift Speed2-300mm Notes: The model is hollowed to decrease resin consumption, and punched at the bottom to let resin flow out from model. The wall thickness of hollow part is about 1.8-2.0mm. Support parameters: Density-0.8, attaching point-0.6, lift distance-0.
