Calibrations and Confirmations before printing--HICTOP 3D Printer

Congratulations ! You almost get the awesome HICTOP 3D printer working . Before starting your real 3d printing with HICTOP , go through those steps :

Step 1. (After finishing the assembly,do not power the machine) Move the X / Y-axis by hand, they should move back and forward or left and right smoothly. Confirm and verify the power supply connections on the board.

Step 2. Verify that the thermistor is good, the nozzle can be heated up .

Step 3. Move X/Y/Z axis through LCD screen to confirm whether the motor driver chips on the board are good .

Step 4. Preheat nozzle and feeding, manually extrude the filament .

Step 5. Autohome, viewing the distance between the nozzle and the bed, then raise the Z-axis, adjust the Z limit switches

Step 6. According to the distance between the nozzle and bed(too close or too far away), raise or lower the limit switch

Step 7. Adjust the limit switch until the distance between the nozzle and the hot bed at about 1mm, autohome then roughly adjust the distance between the nozzle and the bed .

Step 8. Printing the test document

Step 9. Stop test printing, and then adjust the distance between the nozzle and the bed again

Step 10.Continute the test printing