Hello, I am designing a portable 3d printer and the other night I was trying to figure out how to design the end pieces and motor mount for the x-axis. I wanted to be able to make it so it could be printed on my friend's printer. Today i realized that most repraps out there are using the same rod configuration for the z-axis I am trying, why not reuse the design. It looks like the Prusa's end pieces are printed in one piece. That would be great.
My problems are as follows:
I have looked at several of the models and am having troubles figuring out which parts go where
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I am using Autodesk Inventor 2013 to design my other parts and want to import the existing models for these parts so I can get dimensions for rod placement, etc., but all I can find is stl files. While Inventor will open stl files it does not treat them the same as parts made in inventor and I can not get it to give me any of the dimensions. If someone has Inventor files for any of the reprap models it would be nice if they were publicly available.
