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Geeetech A10

Desktop 3D Printer

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USER MANUAL

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Page 1: ...Geeetech A10 Desktop 3D Printer USER MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...on improper product selection noncompliance with any codes or misappropriation To the fullest extent permissible by the applicable law we hereby disclaim any and all responsibility risk liability and damages arising out of death or personal injury resulting from assembly or operation of our products Geeetech assumes no responsibility nor will be liable for any damages to or any viruses or malware ...

Page 3: ...tor Test 14 5 1 2 Heating Test 21 5 1 3 Extruder test 22 5 2 LCD Controller Test 24 5 2 1 LCD Menu Introduction 24 5 2 2 Use LCD for Motor Test 27 6 Build platform leveling 28 7 Slic3r Setting 30 7 1 Printing Setting 31 7 2 Filament Setting 33 7 3 Printer Setting 34 7 4 Other parameters 37 8 Start Printing 42 8 1 Load the Printing Model 42 8 2 Slicing 43 8 3 Stand alone Printing with SD card 46 8 ...

Page 4: ...9 5 Printing quality optimization 51 10 Specifications 51 11 Contact us 53 ...

Page 5: ...0 makes the best of the building platform and gives you a full view of the printing details Its well designed extruder greatly reduces the risk of clogging or leaking The V shaped wheels and rails on each axis made from wear resistant aluminum profile could in a large measure reduce the printing noise and offer you a quiet 3D printing environment Featuring printing accuracy of 0 1 mm A10 delivers ...

Page 6: ...e A10 3D printer from foam box and set it down on a stable surface Note You will see a printing residue on the printing platform which indicates your A10 has already gone through the 24 hours aging test you can feel free to use Step 3 Checking accessories Please check the accessories based on the items in the assembly paper ...

Page 7: ...ice Load and the job gets delegated to the current slicer showing its output in the log window Download the Repetier host V 2 1 2 here For detailed information of Repetier Host please refer to our wiki For detailed using methods of the slicing software slic3r which comes with Repetier Host please also refer to our wiki 2 2 Arduino IDE The open source Arduino Software IDE makes it easy to write cod...

Page 8: ...talled automatically After installation please enter Device manager and find the USB Serial Port which is the communication port for the printer and computer If the driver can not be automatically installed please download the USB driver here and manually install it 3 2 USB Driver Installation for Mac OS For installing the driver and uploading the firmware in Mac OS please refer to FAQ ...

Page 9: ...e your printer so you can connect your computer with the host Open Repetier Host Choose the language as English When you start Repetier Host for the first time you need to set up parameters for A10 Click the Printer Settings on the top right corner you will be presented with the following window ...

Page 10: ...tting and you see a drop down box with the currently selected printer At the start you have only the default printer To create a new printer you only need to change the printer name and press Apply The new printer will start with the same settings as the last selected printer ...

Page 11: ...ion In this first tab we will introduce how to connect your printer with the software Port Get the printer connected to the port of computer which is corresponding to the USB Serial Port in the Device manager Baud Rate Corresponding to the Baud Rate in firmware Generally it is set as 256000 For other parameters please leave them as default and click Apply ...

Page 12: ... operating system is Mac OS please set the baud rate of the firmware and Repetier Host as 115200 Open the firmware in Arduino and modify the baud rate to 115200 in Configuration h Shown as following picture After modification re upload the firmware ...

Page 13: ...re uploading the firmware you may need readjust the motor direction of the printer For detailed methods please refer to following motor testing part 4 3 Printer The second tab defines important behavior you want The Travel feed rate and Z axis feed rate are used when you move the extruder with the manual controls The temperatures are set in the manual controls as start values You can change them t...

Page 14: ...ark Position after Job Kill or it may cause that the print head impacts the printed model when it moves to starting position after finishing printing 4 4 Extruder In the Extruder tab you can define the numbers of extruder the max temperatures that are shown in the manual control The max volume per second defines the maximum amount of filament in mm the extruder can melt per second ...

Page 15: ...r Shape tab defines your printer shape or to be more exact the shape of your build area The host will use this to limit your moves and to check if your models fit onto the print bed You can also define the position of the x and y end stop Recommended settings Printer type Classical printer Home X Max Home Y Max Home Z Min ...

Page 16: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 12 X Min 0 X Max 220 Bed Left 0 Y Min 0 Y Max 220 Bed Front 0 Printing Area 220 x 220 x 260 length width height So far the setting of A10 is finished ...

Page 17: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 13 4 6 Connect the Printer After setting click the connect button on the top left corner of main interface When the button turns green the connection is successful ...

Page 18: ...unpredictable factors during transportation Please do the following simple test before using it 5 1 Repetier Host Test 5 1 1 Motor Test Before the test manually set the motors of X Y Z axis at the intermediate position of each axis to avoid accidental collision occurring during the test There is emergency stop button on the top right corner or you can cut off the power directly if anything went wr...

Page 19: ...er host and connect the printer Turn on the power supply Connect the printer Click Home button then the three axes will move towards the endstop in turn After they touch the endstop they will move back for a short distance and then stop the movement ...

Page 20: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 16 Home position is in the left front corner of the printing platform ...

Page 21: ... GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 17 Note The origin point is the left front corner of the platform when printing So when the printer is at home position the coordinates of X Y Z axis are X 0mm Y 0mm Z 0mm As a result ...

Page 22: ...tion in the firmware Please refer to FAQ Tips In manual control the high light part of the panel stands for the current selected direction and it moves 1mm every click You can also choose to move 0 1mm 10mm or 50mm every click but here we choose 1mm in order to avoid possible incorrect operation ...

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Page 25: ...TECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 21 5 1 2 Heating Test Click the heating button of the hot bed and the extruder When the slash disappeared as shown below it indicates the heating is ongoing and you can see the value rise up ...

Page 26: ...der test Now we are to test if the extruder could extruder filamnet smoothly Since the printer was homed just now the nozzle is close to the building platform To avoid jamming the nozzle we suggest moving the Z axis upward Choose the moving distance and click the Z moving button to raise Z axis as shown in the following picture ...

Page 27: ...e waiting for the extruder to heat cut the end of your filament to create a clean edge 3 When the extruder is fully heated insert the free end of filament into the loading tube Keep pushing the filament and click the loading filament arrow on manual control until you feel the extruder pulling it in 4 Wait until you see plastic emerging from the extruder nozzle 5 Wait a moment for the extruded plas...

Page 28: ...y test if the extruder works normally The button on the right is for rapid feeding filament It is seldom used If the extruder cannot work normally or the extrusion is not fluent please refer to FAQ 5 2 LCD Controller Test 5 2 1 LCD Menu Introduction Functions of LCD rotary knob ...

Page 29: ... 2 Hotbed temperature current temperature target temperature 3 Current coordinates of X Y Z 4 Feed rate current printing rate 5 Current rate of printing process Note Rotate the knob during printing will change the feedrate in real time Press the knob to enter the next level menu 1 Prepare Preparing work before printing 2 Control Setting of temperature and motion parameters of the printer 3 Status ...

Page 30: ...preheat the hotbed and the extruder before printing ABS 5 Move axis manually move each axis and each extruder Main functions of Control menu 1 Temperature You can change the temperature of the hotbed and the extruder in real time in printing process Meanwhile you can set the temperature of Preheat PLA and Preheat ABS 2 Motion setting of the motion parameters in the firmware You need choose store m...

Page 31: ...Use LCD for Motor Test After understanding the functions of LCD press the knob on LCD to enter the sub menu and choose Prepare Choose Auto home in menu to do home operation If you want to move the motor choose Move axis Choose Move 1mm Note only 10mm and 1mm are available for the printer and 0 1mm invalid We recommend you to use ...

Page 32: ... unlock the motors choose Prepare Disable steppers 6 Build platform leveling Before printing please check whether the moving path of the extruder is parallel with the heatbed or not which is called leveling We need make sure the distances from the nozzle of the extruder to the four cornered of the heatbed are the same and only in this way can we get good printing quality a Home the printer ...

Page 33: ... the paper a little it indicates the distance is proper Or you should adjust the wing nut under the heat bed to get the proper distance If the distance is too far the first layer could not be attached well to the building platform If the distance is too small the nozzle is prone to jamming c Following the above step to complete the leveling job on the rest three corners You may need to adjust the ...

Page 34: ...ng picture 7 Slic3r Setting So far we can begin printing But in order to achieve better effect we need set the slicing parameters such as the diameter of the filament speed layer height Open the slicing software slic3r which comes with Repetier host Shown as below The following interface will appear ...

Page 35: ...etting Set the layer height and height of the first layer in the option of Print settings The layer height of A10 can be between 0 05 0 3mm Considering of precision and speed 0 2mm is the most appropriate Set the first layer height as 0 35mm by default ...

Page 36: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 32 You can set the printing speed here ...

Page 37: ...ent settings Here we use 1 75mm PLA Usually the temperature of the print head is 195 210 the hot bed is 60 70 Here we set them as 200 and 65 If you use ABS filament the recommended temperature of the print head is 230 240 for the actual temperature please refer to the data from manufacture of filament and 90 110 for the hot bed ...

Page 38: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 34 7 3 Printer Setting Set the shape and size of the hot bed and the number of extruder in the option of Printer settings General Hot bed shape ...

Page 39: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 35 Number of extruder 1 ...

Page 40: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 36 At the same time set the diameter of the print head as 0 4mm Input the actual diameter of your printer ...

Page 41: ...g effect which requires your long time using experience of 3D printing Here we give you a reference setting please download the attachment config ini You can import it into slic3r according to the following steps Note The configuration uses 1 75mm PLA filament and 0 4mm nozzle diameter and it slices with slic3r engine which is built in in Repetier host 2 1 2 Open slic3r File Load Config ...

Page 42: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 38 Direct to the file A10 PLA config ini and open it ...

Page 43: ...HEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 39 After you imported the config ini file click the save button to rename and save Click to save in the tab of Print Settings Note All the three settings need to be saved in turn ...

Page 44: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 40 Click to save in the tab of Filament Settings ...

Page 45: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 41 Click to save in the tab of Printer Settings ...

Page 46: ...ile formats STL 3ds obj mf dae G code You can download models on the internet for printing for instance thingiverse Of course you can also design your own creative models for printing Here we print a small elephant phone holder You can find the stl file in the folder you download before Elephant_Phone_Holder_Solid stl 8 1 Load the Printing Model Click Load button in the main interface of Repetier ...

Page 47: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 43 8 2 Slicing You can use the following button to enlarge shrink or rotate it ...

Page 48: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 44 After setting the size choose the slicing parameters which were imported before in the slicer window and click Slice with Slic3r ...

Page 49: ...SHENZHEN GETECH TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 45 Now the gcode file which can be recognized by the printer is generated Click Print button to start printing ...

Page 50: ...to print we can save g code file into SD card for printing Note the printer can only recognize gcode file and it can not be put in any folder 8 3 1 Save Click Save for SD Print and choose save button in the dialog Choose the saving path and produce g code file which can be used for printing with SD card ...

Page 51: ...O LTD 47 8 3 2 Printing Insert the SD card into the printer choose corresponding gcode file to print Press the knob on LCD enter the main menu and choose the Print from SD Choose corresponding g code file to begin printing Heating ...

Page 52: ... firmware 9 1 1 Upload the firmware in Win7 OS To upload the firmware we need following tools 1 Arduino IDE Arduino1 0 1 is recommended and you can download it here http www geeetech com wiki images a a2 Arduino 1 0 1 windows zip 2 The firmware for the printer A10 uses GT2560 control board Download the firmware of A10 here http www geeetech com forum viewtopic php f 20 t 17046 After Arduino and fi...

Page 53: ...ol board and COM port and click upload button to upload the firmware For detailed uploading process please refer to http www geeetech com forum viewtopic php f 13 t 17181 9 1 2 Upload the firmware in Mac OS The way of installing driver and uploading firmware in Mac OS is similar with that in Win 7 OS For detailed method please refer to this link ...

Page 54: ...e true of corresponding axis into false or false into true and save the firmware and upload it into the printer Because you don t know the firmware which has been uploaded by the control board is true or false it may be necessary to upload both of the two parameters define INVERT_X_DIR true define INVERT_Y_DIR false define INVERT_Z_DIR true define INVERT_E0_DIR false For detailed method please ref...

Page 55: ...ww geeetech com forum viewtopic php f 17 t 17038 9 4 Extruder can t work extrusion not fluent When you are testing the extruder make sure the temperature is over 170 If you find that the extruder doesn t work or the extrusion is not fluent or there is click noise you need check the motor or clean the barrel and nozzle of the extruder For detailed method please refer to http www geeetech com forum ...

Page 56: ...rol software EasyPrint 3D Repetier Host Simplify 3D Cura Slic3r etc Remote App EasyPrint 3D App with an optional 3D WiFi module File format STL G code Electrical Power supply Input 115V 230V Output DC 24V 360W Connectivity Wi Fi with an optional 3D WiFi module USB cable SD card support stand alone printing Display screen LCD 2004 Mechanical Frame Aluminum profile Build Platform Aluminum heatbed si...

Page 57: ...ces if you would like to quickly solve problems by yourself 2 If you still can not solve problems yourself even with the help of above files you can send e mail to technical geeetech com we will reply to you within 24 hours Sales For more products of Geeetech please visit www geeetech com or send e mail to sales geeetech com Feedback In order to improve our products to provide better user experien...

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