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For current settings use this link: Current Settings and Profiles

When you click setup from the main screen

it will take you to the main setting menu:

To help you visualize X/Y Axis X / Y axis in Cura

X / Y axis on the printer

Both have to deal with the size of the scanning area. This is where you adjust when your print size is different than the STL file. 900 is the default value, and when you increase the value, the scanning area for the X-axis expands.

Both have to do with the position of the scanning area. By increasing the X value, you will move toward to front side of the printer. By increasing the Y value, you will move toward to right side of the printer. These have a default value of 100. DO NOT ADJUST THESE TWO VALUES UNLESS your scan area is outside of the plate surface area. This should rarely happen, and you should contact us before changing any values here.

This deals the slight delay in which laser is firing. It will be removed from menu shortly and please ignore this value. The default value is 50.

This deals with how fast the Z-Axis is moving. The default value is 8.

This has to do with how fast the vat is tilting at layer change. The faster PM Motor speed is, the stronger the force is applied to separating layers. The default value is 30

This changes the laser power output level. 58 is the default value and works well with our Cura profiles and Peopoly resins. Higher value means higher laser power and vice versa for a lower value. A higher laser power means quicker curing and slightly larger laser spot size and vice versa for a lower value. The recommended way to figure out exposure settings for resin is to use our Cura profile for 100um layer height, set laser power down to 51 to use the ring gcode file to test. Increase laser power if the print fails to stick to the surface and decrease laser power if over-curing happens (The resulting ring have closed holes on the top and side and very loud popping noise during layer change). Once you find a laser power that works for test ring, our Cura profiles for all layers should work for this laser power setting for this resin. When setting this value, please wear your protection glasses as the laser will fire and you can visually inspect as needed.

This deals with how laser and galvo work in conjunction. 4 is the default value, and please keep it there. Other values will likely not print at all and only cause headache for you.

This value defines how low the build plate moves down when printing the first layer. It is frequently used value for leveling. The default is 1877. Leveling guide can be found here. When you adjust this value and set it by double click. The build plate will drop down to the Z reset position you just set. This is needed for leveling. When you finish, just turn off the power and the build plate will go back to its default position.

This value defines how much the vat tilts. The higher the value, the longer distance the vat will move to separate the layers. Default is 40

This is another value that deals with layer separation. When the vat tilts during layer change, the build plate lowers slightly to help reduce separation force on each layer. The default value is 40 which translate to 1mm movement and works well. You could experiment it in conjunction with PM Reset Position.

Compensate X/Y is how much concave to correct. X is fine, so 100 is the default. Y is compensated by the scale of 100 out of 100 (200).

This is the “z moto speed” (tells you how fast the platform move during peel motion / layer change) during initial 30 layers.

This is the “pm moto speed” (tells you how fast the pm motor moves the vat in order to peel during layer change) for the initial 30 layers.

The “Initial” term in the setting option names is reference for the first 30 layers. Within the first 30 layers is where the majority of print failures happen. This is why there is a separate option to tweak those layers to combat print failure. These settings should be slower (lower number), more conservative within these layers. Then progress to a more standard setting after the first 30 layers.