19 september

2019

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FELIX Pro Series Calibration guide

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1 Safety

General safety - Keep children under the age of 14 out of reach of the printer

- FELIXprinters are only suitable for professional use.

Considerations when in operation. - Don’t leave the printer unattended, before making sure the

first layer is printed properly

- Don’t lean on the printer.

- Be careful with long hair and wide clothes.

- Don’t transport the printer.

- Make sure all moving parts can move without any obstructions.

- Don’t remove any objects from the hot plate while printing.

- Caution with any moving parts that move in the X, Y and Z

direction. Moving parts can have a pinching hazard.

Electronic safety - Only use the power supplies and cables supplied by FELIXprinters.

Always turn off and unplug the printer before performing

maintenance or modifications.

- The power supply meets all CE mark regulations and is protected

against short-circuit, overload, over voltage and over

temperature.

Printer placement - Place the FELIXprinter on a stable surface.

- Place the printer out of reach of children. Use the FELIXprinter in a

dry environment at room temperature.

Ventilate - Good ventilation while printing is advised. When printing ABS,

small concentrations of styrene vapor can be released. This can

(in some cases) cause headaches, fatigue, dizziness, confusion,

drowsiness, malaise, difficulty in concentrating, and a feeling of

intoxication.

- We recommend using filament types shown on the

FELIXprinters website. Examples PLA, PETG, ABS-X, Glassbend

etc. Other types may be toxic; please follow instructions from

the filament supplier.

Caution with heater elements - There is a potential risk of burn, as the print head can reach

temperatures of up to 275°C and the heated bed of up to 120°C.

- Don’t place objects on the heated bed, not even when the

printer is turned off.

- Always let the printer cool down for at least 5 minutes before

doing maintenance or modifications. - Never try to print without a buildplate in the machine, this can

cause damage to the machine and heated bed.

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2 Introduction Thank you for choosing FELIXprinters!

It is highly recommended to this manual while doing first setup or after maintenance. It explains how to

properly calibrate the machine.

3 Contents 1 SAFETY ............................................................. 1

2 INTRODUCTION .............................................. 2

3 CONTENTS ....................................................... 2

4 CALIBRATION GUIDE ...................................... 3

5 BED LEVELING AND FIRST LAYERS ................. 3

BED LEVELING.................................................... 4

ERRORS DURING LEVELING ................................ 10

6 Z CALIBRATION .............................................. 11

ERRORS........................................................... 13

7 XY CALIBRATION ........................................... 15

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4 Calibration guide

This guide is made to help you setup and maintain a

perfectly calibrated printer for the best end result. It

will go over how to set up the correct offset of the bed,

calibrating the Z height of the extruders so the both

match each other and setting the X and Y offset

correctly for perfect dual color or dual material prints.

5 Bed leveling and first layers Intro

All the Pro series come with automatic bed leveling

and this usually works right out of the box, but when

changing hot ends or after sometime, fine tuning

might be required to get that perfect first layer again.

The first layer is the most important layer of the whole

print if this layer is too close or too far you’ll see the

effects throughout the whole print.

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Bed leveling

Intro

The Pro 2 and 3 use a mechanical bed leveling system,

this means that the bed itself is set by 2 motors under

the bed so that it’s always straight. This is done

through a probe that’s in the head of the machine, so

if that fails it will give you a warning see the guide on

how to fix Z trigger if you start having issues. The XL

and L do this with software so the bed doesn’t move.

To start the bed leveling routine press the bed leveling

button in the printer calibration menu

Pro 2 and 3

Touchscreen

Follow these steps to start the bed leveling, make sure

the bed is clean before starting.

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LCD

The LCD is a little different to the touchscreen, follow these steps.

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Pro XL and L

After this command bed leveling will begin

This command will make a bump map of the bed.

For the XL and L the bed leveling works a little differently from the

Pro 2 and 3, follow these steps.

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Bed leveling itself

After this the machine will probe the bed and adjust

the bed to level the bed to the head of the machine,

this will insure a smooth first layer.

After this the machine should be ready to go If you see

the first layer being too far away from the bed you can

adjust it, follow these steps.

Touchscreen

Follow these steps to adjust the height of the first

layer.

By adjusting the coating thickness you can bring the

nozzle closer or farther away from the bed, - brings it

closer and + moves farther.

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LCD

Follow these steps to adjust the height of the first

layer.

Set the custom to lower or higher when needed, lower is

closer to the bed and higher is further away.

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Examples

Too far away, set it closer. You can see the loose layers

Just a little too close. You can see it start to build up at

the edges

Perfect first layer.

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Errors during leveling

The machine uses the probe in the extruder to

measure the build plate and adjust it accordingly to

make the bed itself leveled. During this process the

probes are monitored and if they trigger you can get

an error report that says bed leveling failed or g33

leveling failed. If this happens first check if the

machine can home normally. If the machine refuses to

go up, check our Z triggered manual. Or check to see if

the motors under the bed got stuck.

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6 Z calibration

Intro

The Z-calibration involves probing both heads so the

machine knows what level both extruders are at, this

is crucial to avoid collision and make a successful dual

or multi material print.

To start the process follow these instructions.

Touchscreen

After this the machine will heat up and begin probing

the heads and comparing the results.

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LCD

After this the machine will heat up and begin probing

the heads and comparing the results.

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Errors

Normally the machine’s Z offset is calibrated after this

point but sometimes, a small difference between

them can be observed. This is usually caused by

having 2 probes which probe at different strengths

which leads to them not being calibrated correctly.

This is easily adjusted see the instructions. This can

only be done in the touchscreen or when connected to

the machine by USB.

You can see the red one is higher than the white one.

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Type this code into the console M4211 Z(0.05) this

code has reversed logic because you set the offset of

the second extruder. So if you set it to M4211 Z0.05 it

will tell the firmware that the right head is 0.05 higher

than the left so when printing it will move it 0.05

lower. So to make it easier – is further + is closer.

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7 XY calibration

Intro

The process of aligning the X and Y offsets of the

2 extruders is crucial for dual color and multi

material printing. With this calibration the

machine will print an example that you can

match together. After it’s done the machine will

ask which point from 1 to 9 matches the best and

stores these offsets. You should do this before

dual color printing and after changing a hot end.

See the instructions, on how to do this but first

load both extruders with PLA.

Touchscreen

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LCD

After this the machine will heat up and start printing

the example. Insert the best matching points into the

screen, you usually have to do this twice to match the

offset correctly. See the example below.

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The middle point or 5 in this case should match, press

the number that best matches, into the screen and

repeat the process if it’s not 5.