CUBICON Single Plus
User Manual
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11-4. Heating bed maintenance
The heating bed is a floor, on which printing material is formed by melting and extruding filament. The heating
bed gets polluted easily by filament or filament pieces, which is melted and attached in the formation process.
In the case of continuous printing in polluted condition, contaminants sticks at formation too, and it causes
pollution of formation or poor formation attachment to the heating bed in the printing process.
Make sure to maintain the heating bed in tidy place before and after printing to prevent poor printing quality
due to printing material pollution.
① Remove filament leftover of the heating bed, using tools such as tweezers, scraper or a brush. Be mindful of heating
bed surface damage in a tool use process. Lamination gets peeled off due to surface damage and it causes poor printing
material sticking.
② Filament leftover or filament sign on the surface of heating bed in formation process may not be removed easily. Make
sure to remove those serious pollutions wiping as if melting with right amount of high purity acetone.
* Make sure to use only high purity acetone for the heating bed cleaning
* Some stain may be seen on the heating bed surface. You do not need to concern on this matter as
those stains usually occur in lamination process and do not effect to the heating bed property.
* The heating bed lamination usage period depends on user’s printing habit.
* The heating bed of Cubicon single plus can process printing without using kapton tapes in appropriate
temperature in the case of printing our company’s ABS/PLA. However users can purchase and use
kapton tape depending on their printing habit or printing model.
In the case of melted filament printing method, contraction may occur if melted filament is hardened and
it may lead to printing floor bird-caging. Contradiction can be improved depending on printing
temperature condition or heating bed adhesive strength or slicing option change. Most of contradiction
phenomenon occurs often and contradiction difference occurs based on contradiction degree.
Make
sure to consider a design method, which can disperse contradiction force in 3D model designing
process.
* Do not use solvents other than aceton for the heating bed as they lead to lamination damage.
* Make sure that aceton shall not stain onto other objects in the time of using aceton for heating bed
cleaning as it may lead to the product damage.
* Make sure to use aceton in well ventilated place and be midful of aceton maintenance.
(Make sure to follow safety regulations, which is written on aceton package)
* Do not use a wet tissue as abluent ingredient of some wet tissues may lead to heating bed lamination
pollution.
* Do not seprate or force the heating bed for formation pullout as it may lead to heating bed malfunction.
* Auto leveling is adjusted with unlaminated bed part. Make sure to remove foreign substances in prior to
printing.
