APPENDIX C. CONNECTING THE POLAR3D PRINTER DIRECTLY TO YOUR DEVICE
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C.2.2
Cable direct printing
Once you have connected your printer via USB cable directly
to your computer, and configured the printer controller software
on your computer (
e.g.
, Repetier-Host), as described in Section
, you are ready to print an object!
1. Obtain an
to print. (From your computer, you
may want to
an interesting file on the Polar Cloud,
it to your computer, and then you will be able to
upload it from your computer to the printer.) But if this is
your first print and you don’t have something else you want
to print, then for your convenience the Polar 3D support
website has a sample
.stl
file along with the
.rcp
and
.rcf
files you already downloaded during the configuration
in Section
. Go back to the Polar 3D support website
and download the
3DBenchy.stl
file to your computer:
Polar 3D support: Repetier-Host/USB printing
2. Use the Repetier-Host “
Load
” button (towards the upper
left of the Repetier-Host main screen) to load an
