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I need another project like I need a hole in my head but I have another project for my business that has parts that screamed 3D printer. A few months ago I purchased a Creality CR-10 because of the low cost to build volume. Its a nice printer for figurines and doo-dads but after many hours of tweaking I'm not getting satisfactory results in higher temp materials at reasonable print speed. I get a lot of ghosting especially in the Y axis at anything above 30 mm/s which is unsatisfactory for print times. The moving mass of the table and un-braced design of the Z axis rails lends to too much shaking. I also had problems with missed steps until I increased the stepper driver voltage on the Y axis motor.
After much research and looking at off the shelf printers I decided to just build what I want. I'm not recreating the wheel by any means. My build is based off the HyperCube Evolution which is a corexy design which is a remix of someone elses design . https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2254103 . I have up-scaled so my build has a build volume of 400mm x 400mm x 400mm.
Specifications are:
CoreXY design
400mm x 400mm x 400m build area
30mm aluminum extrusions for the frame.
20mm aluminum extrusions for the built table frame
Nema 17 62 oz in 400 step motors on the X, Y & Z axis
Dual Z screws driven by a single motor
GT2 2mm pulleys with 6mm belts
12mm linear rails on the Z axis and 10mm on the X & Y
E3D-v6 24v hot end
Titan Extruder (will start as a Bowden setup)
120vac silicon heater for the bed
1/4" MIC-6 aluminum build table
Auto bed leveling
Duet Ethernet controller
24v 20A power supply
Currently not planning on a display as I run my prints from my desktop PC.
CAD Model
Parts printed on the CR-10. Printed in PETg
Progress so far. Parts are still trickling in. Bed heater and optical limit sensors are on a slow boat from China and will not be here until December.
After much research and looking at off the shelf printers I decided to just build what I want. I'm not recreating the wheel by any means. My build is based off the HyperCube Evolution which is a corexy design which is a remix of someone elses design . https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2254103 . I have up-scaled so my build has a build volume of 400mm x 400mm x 400mm.
Specifications are:
CoreXY design
400mm x 400mm x 400m build area
30mm aluminum extrusions for the frame.
20mm aluminum extrusions for the built table frame
Nema 17 62 oz in 400 step motors on the X, Y & Z axis
Dual Z screws driven by a single motor
GT2 2mm pulleys with 6mm belts
12mm linear rails on the Z axis and 10mm on the X & Y
E3D-v6 24v hot end
Titan Extruder (will start as a Bowden setup)
120vac silicon heater for the bed
1/4" MIC-6 aluminum build table
Auto bed leveling
Duet Ethernet controller
24v 20A power supply
Currently not planning on a display as I run my prints from my desktop PC.
CAD Model
Parts printed on the CR-10. Printed in PETg
Progress so far. Parts are still trickling in. Bed heater and optical limit sensors are on a slow boat from China and will not be here until December.