Large format printer

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Wow. Disgruntled ex employee? Anyone have an unbiased opinion of this setup?

too much mass movement, it could be designed much better.

I'm not saying it is crap, but I can see some serious issues with speed and stresses in the Y carriage, they tried to compensate putting the motors very low in the frame but it will still rock in the rail.

I think you are right. Letting the build plate move for the Z would have been better.

It was all marketing propaganda, it just made me feel ill!

Not sure there is anything radically new there, but a nice build for your $30K. They have basically taken a frame designed for traditional machining and adapted for 3DP. That gives a quick to implement and known design, but may not be ideally suited to 3DP. They don't seem to mention much about the extruders, which are pretty critical.

I was also interested by the print bed - a large unenclosed bed seems set up for massive warping, so I wonder how they deal with that?

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