AnyCubic i3 MEGA, Quick Start Manual

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Page 3: ...e Always use the ANYCUBIC 3D printer in an open well ventilated area Be cautious when using the scraper Never direct the scraper towards your hand ANYCUBIC 3D printer MUST NOT be exposed to water or rain ANYCUBIC 3D printer is designed to be used within ambient temperature ranging 8ºC 40ºC and humidity ranging 20 50 Working outside those limits may result in low quality printing It is recommended ...

Page 4: ...avel Speed 100mm s Supported Materials PLA ABS HIPS Wood Temperature Ambient Operating Temperature 8 C 40 C Operational Extruder Temperature 260 C max Operational Print Bed Temperature 100 C max Software Slicer Software Cura Software Input Formats STL OBJ DAE AMF Software Output Formats GCode Connectivity SD card USB port expert users only Electrical Input rating 110V 220V AC 50 60Hz Working Volta...

Page 5: ...ssembly instruction 5 4 Leveling 9 4 1 Assisted Leveling 9 4 2 Manual Leveling 16 5 Software installation 19 5 1 Driver installation 19 5 2 Cura Installation 21 6 Printing 29 7 Manual filament change 32 8 Resume from outage 33 9 Trouble shooting 36 ...

Page 6: ...it www anycubic3d com for more support information Email us on support anycubic3d com or james anycubic3d com If you experience any issues with this product or the performance is not what you had expected please contact us first before returning the item We are here to solve any problems for you Team ANYCUBIC ...

Page 7: ...robe Nozzle X smooth rods X end stop Print platform Y smooth rods Filament sensor Spool holder Filament spool Extruder Z smooth rods Z lead screw X motor Z end stop Z motors Y end stop Model cooling fan 21 Hotend cooling fan 22 Teflon tubing 21 22 ...

Page 8: ...rinter status Print Print print the selected files in SD card Resume Resume from outage only valid for offline print Other information Page up and down Refresh Return to the home menu Setup En 中 Language selection between English and Chinese Temp Enter the menu to adjust E0 hotend Temp 170 260 C Bed Temp 0 120 C Menu Directory Home Menu Print Tools Setup ...

Page 9: ...Move X Y Z axis by 0 1 1 10 Choose the travel speed Low Medium High only valid when no print job Preheat Preheat PLA Preheat ABS only valid when no print job Other information E0 Temp Bed Temp Cooling Cut off the power of hotend and heated bed only valid when no print job Filament Filament In Filament Remove Stop will automatically heating to 200 C for filament in or remove only valid when on prin...

Page 10: ...4 2 Part list Tool pack Screws M5 8 SD card SD Card reader ANYCUBIC i3 MEGA Gloves Power cord Tweezer Spool holder Test filament Random USB cable Backup hotend Scraper Plier ...

Page 11: ...es 2 Find 8 pieces of M5 8mm hex cap screws and the corresponding screw driver Follow in Fig 1 Carefully lift the base to fit into the frame and then fix them by the M5 8mm hex cap screws The screw locations are pointed with red squares in The screws can be installed in a diagonal order and can be tightened after all screws inserted in place Figure 1 ...

Page 12: ...t the bottom right of the base and accordingly there are 3 cable connectors Firstly in Fig 3 insert the cable connector labeled Extruder filament monitor 6 pins to the lower port Pay close attention to the up and down side of the connector and make sure the connector is well inserted in place and no pins bent WRONG or loose connection would lead to malfunction of the machine the same for the rest ...

Page 13: ...t it off Only cut this zip tie when swapping or repairing a malfunction hotend because it needs to push down the plastic ring and pull out the Teflon tubing 4 Spool holder and filament sensor 1 As shown in Fig 7 assemble the spool holder and tighten 4 pairs of screw and nuts at the lower corner The color and shape of the spool holder might be slightly different from this pircture Convex line Middl...

Page 14: ...e hotend yet When insert the filament to the sensor and extruder it is suggested to cut off the bent tip of the filament and rotate the angle if feels any resistance at the sensor or extruder The filament sensor can be hooked on the lower beam of the spool holder It is important to make sure there is no tied or tangle on the spool Filament Hook sensor to the horizontal beam Figure 8 Figure 7 Extru...

Page 15: ... you may use the assisted leveling ANYCUBIC i3 MEGA equipped with proximity switch sensor for the assisted leveling function Please note that this sensor is only function with metal platform such as aluminum and the results might be inconsistent when the platform is hot 4 1 Assisted Leveling 1 Ensure the wiring is OK Then connect the power cord to the machine and the power outlet respectively Swit...

Page 16: ...an be turned manually for adjust the levelness of the X axis wear gloves Figure 10 2 Fig 11 on the Home Menu Click Tools Home Home All After Home All it is suggested to visually check again if the X axis is leveled or not If adjustment needed you may have to click Setup Motor to disable the motor so the Z lead screws could be turned manually for height adjusting After adjustment click Home All aga...

Page 17: ...e first and then the X Y Z axis will be locked and cannot be moved manually Next click Start in the pup up window Figure 12 4 The print head will be traveling to the 4 corners of the print platform anti clockwisely When it arrives at the first point please slowly loosen the corresponding nut Fig 13 so the platform will be gradually bouncing back toward the print head and proximity sensor ...

Page 18: ... is to manually adjust the height between proximity sensor nozzle and platform until the beep The procedures are tighten the 4 nuts under print platform click Level loosen the nut at point No 1 hear the beep next point done During leveling it is suggested to click Last to check the previous points to verify the results because it may need fine tune few times to achieve the best result Fig 14 Figur...

Page 19: ...the hotend as the temperature rising Push down the handle at the extruder refer to Fig 9 and manually insert the filament all the way into the hotend and the filament should flow through when temperature reaching to over 180 190 C otherwise the filament has not been inserted properly You may use the tweezer to carefully get rid of the extruded filament at the nozzle Figure 15 Tips a during Check H...

Page 20: ...ing refer to next step 8 8 Insert the SD card back side facing up into the slot at the bottom right side of the base Click on the Home Print into the print files interface Click on the exist file owl_pair author etotheipi www thingiverse com and click Print Fig 17 The machine will automatically heating and print the file heating bed first then the nozzle Again if the filament has not been inserted...

Page 21: ...e 3 results for the first layer of the owl_pair Figure 18 In case of nozzle too high or nozzle too close Fig 18 B C please click Leveled properly Filament evenly extruded Insufficient extrusion Poor adhesion Nozzle too close Nozzle too high A B C ...

Page 22: ...manual leveling which will be explained in next section b If using Cura for slicing please set the Initial layer thickness to 0 for better adhesion c During assisted leveling it is OK the nozzle may out of the range of the print platform d The proximity sensor only valid to metallic plate such as aluminum and it is sensitive to temperature It is suggested to use this function at room temperature I...

Page 23: ...ng the paper in between means the paper can be moved but with resistance b It is suggested to always double check the 4 corners during manual leveling 3 Sometime customers may want to cover a piece of glass on top of the aluminum print platform In this scenario customers have to use manual leveling because the Assisted leveling only valid for metal platform There are few things have to be done bef...

Page 24: ...her end of Z adjustable nut can trigger the Z end stop when Home going down and tells the machine that Z axis is now getting to the Zero position and stop moving So tighten the Z adjustable nut 3mm would let the Z axis getting to the Zero position and stop there 3mm higher than before thereby avoid hitting into the platform It may need adjustment few times After adjustment please click Tools Home ...

Page 25: ...uggested to use Print offline to minimize the noisy signal from USB connection 5 1 Driver installation Firstly power on the machine and connect it to PC via USB cable ANYCUBIC i3 MEGA 3D printer uses TriGorilla mainboard which has CP2102 chip for communication So it is required to install CP2102 driver so the 3D printer could be recognized by PC CP2102 driver has been stored in the SD card Files_E...

Page 26: ...fter successfully installation the COMx will appear in the Ports of Device Manager Here is COM3 3 is random customers would have their own number depends on the PC Not installed Right click and choose update Find the folder of CP2102 in SD Card Desktop Mega Files_Engish_Mega Driver_CP2102 win Click COM3 appears in Ports ...

Page 27: ... the driver again 5 2 Cura Installation ANYCUBIC i3 MEGA 3D printer reads Gcode file and prints out object layer by layer Normally we have to change 3D file such as stl file into Gcode file for 3D printer to read Software that can do convert 3D file into Gcode file has been called slicing software which means this software can slice 3D objects into many layers There are several software for slicin...

Page 28: ...22 Figure 22 Next there are few more settings regarding the machine type show in Fig 23 3 4 ...

Page 29: ...an be loaded Files in grey are outside of the print area and need to be moved or scaled to fit in 5 2 2 Manipulate 3D model in Cura 1 Zoom in out scroll the mouse wheel 2 Change viewing angle right click the model and hold on and move the mouse 3 Position change left click on the model and hold on and drag the model to move 4 Rotate single left click on the model and a few icons will appear in the...

Page 30: ...inimize the adhesion issues during printing Fig 24 4 2 Reset click it to return the model to the original orientation Figure 24 5 Scale to uniformly scale the model along X Y Z dimensions To disable uniform scaling click the lock in the lower section of the scaling window Fig 25 Figure 25 6 View mode Fig 26 to view the model in different ways and helps to spotting issues Lay flat Reset ...

Page 31: ... settings 1 Machine settings Refer to Fig 27 click Machine Machine settings to input those suggested parameters into the corresponding column Please choose the same serial port which appears in the Device Manager refer to Fig 21 and it is COM3 in this example you may have a different COMx and set the Baudrate to 250000 Figure 27 Scroll at layers mode ...

Page 32: ...to leave the plugins as default no plugin enabled Plugins are custom settings which will active at specific point during printing There are two pre loaded plugins with Cura Pause at height and Tweak At Z More plugins can be found via http wiki ultimaker com Category CuraPlugin As shown in Fig 29 to enable one of the plugins such as Pause at height first click it and then click the drop down arrow ...

Page 33: ...temperature fan speed and print speed Fine tune those for specific model would produce better results If wish to delete the plugins stay mouse at the edge hold the left button and drag mouse to show the Delete Figure 29 4 Start End GCode As shown in Fig 30 custom Gcode allows for complex automatic printer movements and operations By adding custom Gcode into the start or end of the Gcode file custo...

Page 34: ...ura Click File Print enter the printing window If you have a simplified printing window which is different from that in Fig 31 please click File Preferences to choose the Pronterface UI in Printing window type drop down menu Click Print icon when it is available after auto connect with the printer Then the ...

Page 35: ...enu in Cura click File Save GCode to save the file to a directory And it is highly recommended to save the Gcode in SD card to do printing offline Tips 1 Always reopen the Gcode file again in Cura to confirm that all slices of the model have been included by check it in the Layers view refer to Fig 26 6 Printing 1 When experienced customer skips the previous step and directly wants to print right ...

Page 36: ...elt through the nozzle please use tweezer to carefully remove it from the nozzle Figure 33 3 Insert the SD card back side facing up into the slot at the bottom right side of the base Click on the Home Print into the print files interface Click on the exist file owl_pair and click Print Fig 34 The machine will automatically heating and print It will be heating the heated bed first and then the nozz...

Page 37: ...e 35 ANYCUBIC i3 MEGA 3D printer has a printing sticker which has a lift time about few weeks depends on the usage Customer may use masking tape as alternative Tips Suggested printing temperature for PLA 190 210 C ABS 230 240 C bed temperature for PLA room temperature 60 C ABS 80 100 C Please be mindful that the nozzle and heated bed are still hot after operation After operation switch off the pri...

Page 38: ... and there should be filament melt through the nozzle 2 Remove the filament click via the Home menu Tools Preheat Preheat PLA for example After it reaches to the target temperature press down the handle at the extruder as shown in Fig 36 and firstly manually push in the filament until seeing the filament melt through the nozzle then quickly remove draw out the filament Figure 36 Tips For easy feed...

Page 39: ...card only 1 As shown in Fig 37 in slicing software i e Cura it is required to place the model at the rear of platform Because in case of Resume from outage machine will home first and could touch interfere with the unfinished object if the model was placed in the front area Fig 38 Figure 37 Figure 38 Rear position Zero Home position Front Rear ...

Page 40: ...ack side facing up into the slot Print the just saved file i e owl_pair The machine will automatically heating on and print If there is an accident power loss during this printing the print will stop immediately However when power comes back please click Print choose the unfinished file and click Resume Fig 40 Machine will home first and continuing the unfinished object Figure 40 Highlight Type G5...

Page 41: ...erwise resume will be invalid ANYCUBIC i3 MEGA 3D supports resume from outage only when print offline This function is developed based on Cura We could not guarantee that this function compatible with other slicing software Due to the differences of filaments temperature extrusion etc we could not guarantee a perfect surface at the point of Resume from outage especially when printing small object ...

Page 42: ... has been corrupted Try reformatting the SD card to FAT32 format and reloading the Gcode file SD card is not readable ensure file name does not contain special characters or Change SD card Touch screen freeze reboot the machine and try again 3 No extrusion or extrusion motor knocking Ensure that the nozzle temperature has been set to match the filament Filament tangled on spool Not enough cooling ...

Page 43: ...belt and the driving wheel and ensure they are properly installed Lubricate the rods by grease and check all nuts and bolts remain tightened 8 Freezing screen Inspect if the touch screen has been pressed by the metal frame at the edge Check if there is any cracks if so please contact us at support anycubic3d com 9 T0 sensor abnormal Check the wiring of the hotend and ensure a good connection Check...