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Chapter 4
Setting the printer
Your Sharebot Kiwi-3D is a mechanical device built with care both in design and in the Assembly. To
keep it in a State of optimal functioning is necessary to compensate for some normal processes of
adjustment, for example, due to repeated thermal cycles of extruder motors.
With each print, the entire machinery is subject to vibrations and movements that in the long run can
loosen the four screws that hold the printing bed. This leads to not have more precise and uniform
spacing of the glass plate from the extruder which inevitably fails to apply the first layer with the ac-
curacy and uniformity necessary for quality printing.
Just exit out of the box, Sharebot Kiwi-3D should be even with the exact factory calibration, but a
long journey or vibrations during transport may have done move some adjustment screw.
Loading the filament
To be able to print you must load into the extruder thermoplastic wire that once pushed in heated
room, becomes fluid and may be extruded.
Sharebot Kiwi-3D has a specific menu item to load the filament and is located under the heading
“Prepare”. When enabled, it starts heating the extruder and when the temperature is reached, you
can load or unload the filament (the procedure is identical to that which is accessible from the menu
“Adapt” described in the previous chapter).
Cold extruder to the filament is locked and cannot be forced by pulling or pushing it into the ex-
truder. To load the filament, oblique cut the plastic wire ends to form a bit and put it in the pusher,
making sure that the wire runs, surpassing the sprocket and into the hole below.