I think that you will need to consider some kind of fancy heated chamber to be able to print that hot. The heated bed will do a good job keeping stuff near it (first 3 or 4 layers) warm, but higher up on the print there will be some crazy warping. With that said, you can get a heater rated to 230C here: https://www.omega.com/pptst/SRFR_SRFG.html. Best of luck with your project, Trexby Trexation - Mechanics
Greetings, After six months of development my senior design group has developed the plastic bag tent concept to the point of being a functional prototype. We have used a combination of affordable nylon rods, small simple plastic connectors that are easily 3D printed, and a normal 60 gallon trash bag to make an affordable enclosure that easily captures the majority of the fumes emitted by the 3D pby Trexation - Safety & Best Practices
We are planning on doing closed filtration by pushing the air through a gas mask combination filter inside of the plastic bag tent. The reasoning behind a closed filtration system revolves around the ability to use a smaller lower flow filter, the retention of heat around the printer, and there does not need to be venting to the exterior increasing ease of use. with your concerns about the sealby Trexation - Safety & Best Practices
Greetings, Recently I surveyed the RepRap community for people's opinions on the fume emissions from 3D printers (that can be found here). Thank you so much to everyone that participated. The results showed that the majority of people would be willing to buy a filtration system for under $50. With this knowledge in hand, my high school senior design group set out to generate concepts that coulby Trexation - Safety & Best Practices
Thank you so much to everyone who has submitted their input and responded to our poll. We have close to 50 responses at this point which is awesome! With the amount of feedback received, I think that it would help the community to have the results of our poll. Poll: 47 Responses at the time of writing Question 1: Did you know that the extrusion process for 3D printers emits dangerous fumes inby Trexation - General
That seems like an excellent solution; I am impressed by your ability to find such a perfect cabinet for the 3D printer and the filament. Does the system completely remove the smell? Also, Does the venting out the window cause problems with the appearance of the exterior of your house for neighbors or have any leakage issues when it rains? I ask because the room with my 3D printer has one windoby Trexation - General
Thanks for all of the help! We will definitely consider all of these ideas in our development process. I really like the idea of putting the filtration system in the enclosure to slowly filter the air, though I do have one concern. Our general thought was to make our design solution an after market add-on that could go potentially around the 3D printer in the hopes of ensuring compatibility. Myby Trexation - General
Our high school senior design team is analyzing the communities interest in a 3D printer filtration system and health concerns. Can you please answer this quick two question survey to help us out? https://goo.gl/forms/6CzHc7dhP7LejLaI2 Thanks, Trexationby Trexation - General
Does it have any precision linear motion components? It looks like the different directions are just sliding on one rail and some plastic except for the Z direction. Also, it seems as though it could be very well used and it is just hard to tell because of the medical sterilization procedures. Furthermore, it is in the UK and they seem to say on the ebay page that they will not ship it to the US.by Trexation - General
I was able to solve the issue, it turns out that the link on the duet wifi page is broken and so I had to use this link: I used version 2.17 with no issues.by Trexation - General
Greetings, I am having trouble getting my duet wifi to connect to my computer. Currently, it is showing up in the device manager as a bossa program port. I have tried the fallback procedure 3 (I also tried procedure 2) on the duet wiki but cannot get the download link to work for the Atmel software. The software typically asks for my name and other details then fails to download or the website saby Trexation - General
For my 3D printer, I am opting for a foam enclosure that is encased in wood. My general thought process is that the fully enclosed heated chamber would limit the oxygen supply enough that it could not burn through the wood before the fire ran out of oxidizer. The concept is similar to that of covering a candle to put it out. With that said though, I designed more on the side of preventing fires iby Trexation - Safety & Best Practices
I recently took on the challenge of building a 3D printer that was 12 by 12 with a xy moving head and a z-axis bed. I chose to do an h-bot setup, I will include a CAD model of the design. Maybe you can find similar ideas to use between the two.by Trexation - Mechanics
How would I be able to calculate the curling that would take place? I tried to use the formula on the Wikipedia page for bimetal curvature but could not figure out what the K value for curvature meant. I got a value of -.01447 for K. Thanksby Trexation - Mechanics
The reasoning behind using two belts is because it is hard to find loops of belts that are over 1 meter. In my design, this is solved by having two belts. Also, the two belt system gives the pulleys on both the motor and the lead screw excellent grip because the will have 60% + of the teeth engaged as compared to 30%. With the thermal expansion, the steel will expand .324mm over its 450mm lengtby Trexation - Mechanics
Quotedc42 QuoteTrexation Wouldn't the chamber just reach the temperature of the bed and then stop heating? Yes. But you probably want the chamber temperature to be lower than the bed temperature. Well, I don't think that is a problem since all the motors except the extruder will be outside of the chamber, what would be the other issues? Have you looked at the pictures yet?by Trexation - Mechanics
Wouldn't the chamber just reach the temperature of the bed and then stop heating? What would be the issue with that? I think that I could set my bed to 110C for the first few layers and then just drop it down to like 90C and print in an 85C chamber...by Trexation - Mechanics
The Extrusions will be 1.5 inches thick (38.4mm) and the plywood is just meant to keep everything enclosed, not to provide structure to the printer.by Trexation - Mechanics
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This will be my second 3D printer. My first printer was a repstrapish machine that prints poorly when it prints and has many underlying design failures. It was made with a combination of a hand drill, a Dremel, and a lot of time. For my second machine, I am looking for all of the following qualities: - No / Limited Smell - Heated Build Chamber - Quiet - Working Heated Bed - No Inductive Sensorby Trexation - Mechanics
Yeah, and it looks like they have the cheapest extruders off of eBay for the direct drive system. Link:by Trexation - General
Other than the high price tag, I am interested as to why the company chose to put a .4 mm nozzle on a machine with a build area of 600mm x 600mm, and what you plan to do with such a large build volume. Link:by Trexation - General
I have been doing some research lately and have come across the cheapest way to get a T-slot aluminum frame without compromising quality, just costing time. The Extrusions: The extrusions themselves can be purchased from 80/20 through eBay in lots, these lots are parts that they cannot sell for one reason or another and so they sell them in lots by auction. It can easily be 50% cheaper than branby Trexation - General
Recently I have taken on the task of trying to build my second 3D printer, I built a Repstrap-ish machine about a year ago but it has several fatal flaws that I hope to overcome. For the design of my second 3D printer, I am in search of information that details how to make a high-quality custom machine. I have read through Digital Dentists SoM guide several times but was wondering if there were sby Trexation - General
Very interesting design, it does seem to be an excellent solution to dual extrusion. I would love to see more pictures of the designs and more detail of the mechanics of the system. I am curious, though how do you hope to address possible tangling of the wires and do you have any ideas for further improving the accuracy? Best of luck and I can't wait to see it work.by Trexation - Mechanics
Wow, that is so cool! I was surprised by how quiet it is even compared to the igus bushing...by Trexation - Mechanics
Hey, It is very difficult for me to visualize what you are saying. Could you please provide some pictures, or even better a video? I am sure you know the old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words (and a video is worth ten thousand words)."by Trexation - Mechanics
Have you considered an inductive auto bed leveling probe? They are well supported and plug into the standard end stop plugs with no servo required.by Trexation - General
The "Model Path" if you will is as follows 3D Model in .STEP (such as from Solidworks or Autodesk) > Mesh in .stl (such as a thingiverse file) > Gcode in .gcode (from cura) > Instructions to printer in .gcode (from matter controller or similar) > Movement of motors (controlled by firmware) > Printed Object The program that sends instructions to the printer is typically referred tby Trexation - General
Hello, 1. Do you have any pictures? That would be a good place to start. Please take pictures of the control board and the psu. 2. I assume you tested the LCD after you figured out you had the voltage wrong on the PSU or did you do it the other way around. 3. Did Repetier connect correctly? Did your motors make any noise when you try to move them? On a side note, if you did brick your electronicby Trexation - General