Figure 3.1: Polar Cloud printer dashboard LOCAL UI button
If you are controlling your Polar3D printer directly through its local WiFi (see Section C.1) rather than going through the Polar Cloud, then the printer’s local web interface will be your main control interface. From a device on your local network (computer, tablet, or phone), simply open a browser window connecting to the printer’s local IP address1 and you will be at the printer local web interface.
If you connect your printer to the Polar Cloud, then after performing its initial connection (see Chapter 1), you likely will seldom have a need or interest in connecting directly to the printer’s local web interface. However, the printer’s local web interface is still accessible. If you are on the same local network as the printer, you may simply open up a browser window and connect to its local IP address without going through the Polar Cloud. Or from within the Polar Cloud, navigate from the main menu to your list of printers, then click on the printer itself, and then at the printer dashboard printer managers may click on the LOCAL UI button (towards the upper right), shown in Figure 3.1.
The Polar Cloud will then attempt itself to connect to what it knows as the printer’s local IP address. If your local network permits access to the printer’s local IP address from the Internet (which some local networks may not), this will open a new window onto the printer local web interface, as shown in Figure 3.2.
(If your local network does not permit such access from the Internet, then you may still connect to the printer’s local web interface more manually, by simply connecting directly to its local IP address, as previously mentioned.)
1For a discussion of the printer’s local IP address, see Section 14.6: Printer local IP address (for connecting to local web interface) of the Polar Cloud Guide.
