I'm Thinking Of Building My Own Large Scale 3D Printer, And I'm Looking For Some Advice On Part Choices, And Advice On Overstraining Familier Parts From Smaller Printers September 27, 2014 01:39PM |
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Iceman086
What is your budget? (HUGE thing to consider)
Do you have a time line you are working with/on?
What is your experience?
Do you have experience with designing in any kind of CAD program? If so which one? (Solidworks, Inventor, Revit, TinkerCAD, 123D, Sketchup, etc)
What is your targeted "acceptable" print times?
What materials do you want to run?
Do you need a heated bed?
Do you have any experience as a machinist? If no, do you have the ability to draft plans to give to a machinist?
Is the 1500 x 800 x 700 the build volume or the machine foot print?
Which large scale machines have you researched?
Re: I'm Thinking Of Building My Own Large Scale 3D Printer, And I'm Looking For Some Advice On Part Choices, And Advice On Overstraining Familier Parts From Smaller Printers September 28, 2014 10:58AM |
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My idea was to have 4 motors (one in each corner if the bed) wired in parallel (like the Printrbot Plus, has 2). But then I wonder how I can power those motors separately from the Printrbot main board? Because x4 power drain would undoubtedly cause a burn out on the board (I'm guessing, am I right?). So, cant motors be powered separately, but controlled from the logic board?
If not, then I'm looking at moving to a different logic board? and that's something I'd like advice on...
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dailafing
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Ok, Z axis...... Yep, I understand that there is going to be a large weight here, and I'm still undecided on what I should use as a platform? any recommendations. I nearly said I'm going to use PLA, but PLA is all I know... Perhaps someone would recommend I switch since I may now be looking at a larger nozzle, different spec stuff etc...
My idea was to have 4 motors (one in each corner if the bed) wired in parallel (like the Printrbot Plus, has 2). But then I wonder how I can power those motors separately from the Printrbot main board? Because x4 power drain would undoubtedly cause a burn out on the board (I'm guessing, am I right?). So, cant motors be powered separately, but controlled from the logic board?
If not, then I'm looking at moving to a different logic board? and that's something I'd like advice on...
Cheers
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dailafing
I'm really glad your asking me the right questions, I am really looking forward to hearing some thoughts soon on things like, what I should use as a platform, motors, how to power motors from a separate PSU, maybe ATX?
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What I'm printing will be fairly hollowed out... Imagine a large rally car roll cage in one piece. Then the corners of the frame will hold very strong magnets, and then the panels of the object will align with the object I'm producing... The panels will be thin balsawood, painted, and nothing to do with this printer....
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For electronics consider:
TinyG ---- Affordable Industrial Grade Motion Control $130
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I'd say go with RAMPS. Especially if you just want to print. There is lots of support which is really nice.
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cozmicray
What are you going to put your RAMPs on --- Mega 2560
Perhaps you should look at RAMPS FD on a Due
[reprap.org]
More compute power, acceleration, jerk algorythims long axes to manage
more output for heaters -- other things
Have you thought about Firmware (Marlin, Repetier) software (Repetier-Host)
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have a read of this thread Ramps for Due and you will not even consider Ramps-FD however there is some coverage of RADDS in there and that is a much better board IMHO.
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The loose component that you have is a Diode and its purpose is so the the Ramps board will deliver power to the Arduino underneath it (You will need to fit this into the board and solder it in if you want to go standalone printing without the PC Connected)
IIRC it is soldered in underneath the bottom left stepper driver that you have fitted to the board make sure you get it the right way round!!.