3.2 Polar Cloud account settings

To modify settings for your Polar Cloud account, click your Polar Cloud member icon (at the top right of any Polar Cloud screen) to bring up the account drop-down menu. At the account drop down menu, click on the “Settings” tab (see Figure 3.10) to get to an “ACCOUNT” screen such as shown in Figure 3.11.

Note that most² of the information you provide at the “ACCOUNT” screen, Figure 3.11, may be displayed to other Polar Cloud members who look you up.

Your “Display Name” is the name that will be displayed throughout the Polar Cloud on objects you post, on your print jobs listed in printer print queues, on your membership tile in groups of which you are a member, on your tile in a printer “MEMBERS” list, on your member profile page, as well as being the name by which another Polar Cloud member may SEARCH for you (to share an object, invite you to join a group, invite you to access a printer, etc.). As such, put some thought into what you would like displayed: consider whether you wish to be easily identifiable when other members search or view objects you posted, or search for you, or whether you prefer a more obscure or symbolic name. Teachers may also wish to advise students on “appropriate” choice of display name. If you do not explicitly set a “Display Name” value, your “First Name” and “Last Name” will be combined and used. To set or modify your display name, click on the field underneath “Display Name”, enter your desired name, and then click the “SAVE” button.

While the default “Position” value for newly created Polar Cloud accounts is “Student”, if you are a teacher or administrator (or IT support person or other non-student), you will probably wish to set the “Position” field to properly represent your status; see Figure 3.12.

When “Position” is set to “Student”, “Educator”, or “Administrator”, then additional fields “School” and “District” may optionally be set; when “Position” is set to “Other”, then an “Organization” field is available instead. “Location”, “Biography”, and “Website URL” fields are also settable.

When you first created your Polar Cloud account, you effectively associated an email address for your Polar Cloud account: the email associated with the Google, Facebook, Microsoft Live, or Microsoft Office 365 account you used to login to the Polar Cloud; see Section 3.1. That primary email address (which is displayed towards your “ACCOUNT” screen’s lower left under “Email”, see Figure 3.11 or Figure 3.12), may not be changed for your Polar Cloud account. But if you have another email address and account you’d like to be able to use to login to this same Polar Cloud account (for instance, perhaps you’d like to be able to login to this same Polar Cloud account using either your Google or your Facebook credentials), then you may use the “+ ADD EMAIL” button towards the lower left of the “SETTINGS” screen (between “Website URL” and “PIN Code”). Clicking the “+ ADD EMAIL” button will bring up a “ADD EMAIL” screen; enter the desired additional email address³ and click the “ADD” button; see Figure 3.13. Then follow the instructions in the email message that the Polar Cloud will send to that email address.

A “PIN Code” is generated for you when your Polar Cloud account is first created. Your current “PIN Code” value is used in the process of registering a non-Polar3D printer to your account. You may change your “PIN Code”, if you wish, though you may wish to make any such change before registering non-Polar3D printers to your account, as some types of printer may store the “PIN Code” value you provided and use it not just during initial registration, but also subsequently.

Make sure to click the “SAVE” button (toward the upper right of the account screen) after making any changes to your account settings; note that the “SAVE” button will appear in red when there are changes that could be saved. (If you change your mind about changes before saving them, you may use the “RESET” button.)