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cle through:
COMPLETING PRINTING
,
FINISHING PRINTING
, and
then
READY TO PRINT
(when it is ready for a new job); see Fig-
ure
Let your object cool a bit on the build plate to firm up, and
then remove it from the build plate! (Note that Section
has
a few hints on removing objects from the build plate.)
Figure 2.22: Printed object
CalibrationKey
on the build plate
On your build plate, as in Figure
, you may notice a
faint “outline” or partial outline of printing around your ac-
tual object: a single layer of printing 3 mm from the object
itself. That is a
; the default
for the Po-
lar3D printer include a skirt (to help establish a smooth flow
of melted filament before extruding the object itself). You may
