Summary
Because I want to print large things out of difficult materials like ABS or Nylon I need an enclosure. I’ve built some enclosures and they are relatively big for its build size due to the Cartesian printer type. Especially with this huge machine I want to reduce its size by making it a moving portal machine. The standard coreXY systems have a cage in which the core is moved in, as the name suggests, the X and Y direction. This is done with a belt driving mechanism and I looked at several options, but I think that my approach would be the simplest. I don’t think it will reach the famous speeds a coreXY printer can reach, but it definitely doesn’t have to move as much weight as a Cartesian style printer has to do.
It uses mostly 3D printed parts and reused parts from the bed so risks and costs are low 🙂
The video I’ve made about this is this one:
I recently did some tests how well it performed and updated the current version because of a design flaw which I show in that video too
Edward Park (verified owner) –
It’s a very interesting task.
It’s a structure that only you can create.
It’s much more innovative than the Creality.
I hope you can develop parts that can respond to fast output.
Also, please make a large version of S5 (1M or higher).
Parminder Ubhi –
great
Scott Girdwood (verified owner) –
looks fantastic! i cant wait to print this one, many thanks for you great designs
Beppe –
great idea, please more mods on CR-10. The world is full of CR10!!!!
Colten Edwards (verified owner) –
Have you thought about doing a dual Y setup. I realize that your board might not have an extra driver available, but using a splitter would work as well.
Jón –
Yes, I have. I think in order to do this you cannot simply split the wire because of the extra current drawn. I don’t have experience with it, but I recon a second stepper driver is needed which shares the same stepper signals as the original one. I first want to improve it mechanically 🙂
Florian Rabe –
Love your design. BTW you actually can split the wires and let the steppers run on one driver. Thats precisely how the first creality upgrade kits were shipped before dual z became standard. You might maybe have to adjust the current on the driver a tad but thats it.
Guilherme –
What a brilliant idea!
I was thinking about doing something like that to my Ender 3 but havent figured out how until now, since our project inpired me to some ideas… Instead of the tall moving portal I’m considering to make the printing bed go up and down like in the actual COREXY printers, but still using your moving gantry idea. That shall bring down the moving masses close to the COREXY standard, alowing for more speed and still save some space.
Sergio Williams (verified owner) –
Great thinking here for this design. I have found that this mod wont work as is for Ender 3/Pro or silimar printers. This is because of the placement of the 4040 rails and their arrangment. I am almost done with reworking the design to fit an Ender 3. Contact me if you would like to participate in the design rework.