3D Printer After First Build Day
Just a heads up, this is quite possibly the most inefficient design you can have. In order to reach edge-to-edge for a given print, the object you’re moving needs to be able to move across 2x the axis. So moving a bed that is 200mm in the X direction, needs 400mm of space in order to reach each edge. Whereas if you are moving a hot end head, which might only be 3cm across, you only need 200+30mm, because the tip of the nozzle (practically 0 width) is effectively only 15mm from each end.
This is exactly how machines like the Ultimaker have such an efficient ratio of build volume to machine volume.
If you basically flipped this machine upside down, and changed the “bed” to be a small extruder carriage, and changed the Z axis to have a bed to print on, you’d gain like 50% more printable area AND you wouldn’t have the issue of tall prints wobbling off of the plate (as the original Cupcakes and Thing-O-Matics had trouble with)
You’re right ! As this is my first build, I’d like to build is the way it’s dictated by the kit.
My main reason for building it is - besides trying 3d printing - also tinkering around with the drive control algorithms, so build volume efficiency is not my main scope just yet.
Your comment is appreciated though.
Hopefully in the future you will feel comfortable enough to build something like the Ingentis. 
want it
