One of the nice features of the hot end that the Orion uses is the ability to change the
nozzle that you're using for a print. The stock hot end size is 0.5mm, but if you're going to do
really detailed work, you may want to change to a 0.35mm nozzle. If you're doing coarser work
and want to print really quickly, you could use a 0.7mm or larger nozzle. In order for the slicer to
know how to properly calculate the material flow rate, it needs to know what the diameter of the
nozzle is. It goes hand in hand with the material diameter setting that we covered earlier.
Before we move on to the next topic, I wanted to cover one more item – the
QUALITY
presets. I'm not going to go in depth on this one except to note that both the
QUALITY
and
MATERIAL
presets can store identical settings. They're split into two categories in order to
make it easier for you to group common settings together. You will typically store things that
directly affect the print quality of your model in the
QUALITY
presets. Things like layer height,
print speed, etc.
MATERIAL
presets should only contain those settings that directly deal with
the material you're using to print the current object with. You'll find that both the
QUALITY
and
MATERIAL
presets contain more options than I've covered here. Those new options are
exposed by choosing the
Advanced
settings level. I'll be reviewing those with you later on.
We've covered both the
Simple
and
Intermediate
settings for the slicing engine.
Advanced
is something I'll cover later, so let's move on to the
CONTROLS
section.
The
CONTROLS
page is where you can manually control your Orion 3D printer. You
can heat the hot end or bed, as well as manually position the effector platform and extrude
plastic.
The
Temperature
pane contains everything you need to manually control the
temperatures for both the hot end and the heated bed. MatterControl provides PLA and ABS
presets. You can edit them by clicking the pencil icons. You can also enter in a temperature
and heat to that value by clicking on the
SET
button that will appear as soon as you begin
typing.
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