Guided Tutorials

Guided Tutorials

Cindr3D's in-app Help panel includes short guided tutorials with resumable progress. They are designed as first wins: small enough to finish in one sitting, but useful enough to teach the workflow.

Progress is stored in the browser, so users can close Help and resume later on the same machine.

Tutorial Format

Each tutorial is broken into checkpoints. A checkpoint is meant to be completed in the app, then marked done in Help.

Use tutorials when:

• Learning a workspace for the first time.
• Onboarding someone in a shared shop.
• Verifying a new install can design, prepare, and print.
• Practicing calibration workflows without digging through the whole manual.

Design a Phone Stand

This tutorial walks through a compact CAD-to-Prepare flow:

1. Open Design.
2. Start a sketch on the XY plane.
3. Draw the stand side profile.
4. Dimension the base, back angle, and lip.
5. Finish the sketch.
6. Extrude the profile.
7. Fillet hand-contact edges.
8. Send the finished body to Prepare.

This is a good first modeling tutorial because it touches sketch constraints, dimensions, features, edge refinement, and the handoff into slicing.

First Calibration Cube

This tutorial focuses on measurement and printer accuracy:

1. Open 3D Printer.
2. Choose Calibration.
3. Download the 20 mm calibration cube.
4. Print with the active material profile.
5. Let the cube cool.
6. Measure X, Y, and Z with calipers.
7. Adjust dimensional compensation if needed.

The key habit is waiting for the part to cool before measuring, especially with materials that shrink noticeably.

Pressure Advance

This tutorial walks through pressure advance/linear advance calibration:

1. Select the pressure advance pattern or tower.
2. Print the test with pressure advance reset or swept.
3. Inspect the lines or corners.
4. Choose the cleanest response.
5. Save the value in the firmware-specific format.

For more detail, see Print Tuning and Utilities.

M486 Object Cancellation

This tutorial teaches mid-print object cancellation:

1. Slice a multi-object plate with object labels enabled.
2. Open 3D Printer.
3. Go to Exclude Object.
4. Review object status.
5. Cancel only the failed object.
6. Confirm the preview and printer status show that object skipped.

For firmware requirements, see Mid-print Object Cancellation.

Related Pages

• CAD and Modeling
• Slicing and Print Preview
• Printer Workflows
• Print Tuning and Utilities
• Mid-print Object Cancellation