Stratasys FDM 2000, Manual

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Procedures
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FDM 2000/3000/8000 Manual
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About This Manual—Purpose
About This Manual
Purpose
The purpose of this manual is to provide you with the necessary information to
operate and maintain the Stratasys FDM 2000/3000/8000. This manual comple-
ments the procedures covered by the Stratasys training program. However, it does
not serve as a substitute for hands-on learning. It also functions as an integral part
of the complete documentation for your Stratasys system configuration.
Organization
This manual contains three main sections:
1) Introduction
2) Procedures (“how to” information)
This section contains FDM 2000/3000/8000 usage, maintenance, and
troubleshooting procedures. The usage section describes modeling and
manual operations (see “How This Manual is Organized” on page F2/
3000-4). The maintenance section covers daily cleaning, cleaning the
FDM head, and periodic maintenance. The troubleshooting section covers
basic problem resolution.
3) Reference (“What is it?” information)
FDM 2000/3000/8000 concepts such as “Fused Deposition Modeling” are
covered here. This section also describes the FDM 2000/3000/8000
controls, hardware, and the recommended toolpath parameters for
Stratasys modeling materials.
Conventions
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read carefully. Cautions and warnings appear in bold typeface.
The notepad symbol can indicate any of the following:
• a shortcut
• additional information about a feature or topic
• the situation in which you might choose to use a feature
This information appears in italics.
Text to be entered at a prompt is indicated in a bold typeface, and may contain
the subscripted caret (^) symbol, which represents when a space must be
entered.