Hey guys,
To quickly introduce myself, I’m Ray from Cohesion3D (Close to launching a Cohesive 3D Printer that can print electronics inside of plastic). I started building ROUX a while ago (A Routy-OX Hybrid). The mindset was that the OX seemed too overkill for me but I still wanted the custom plates aspect of it. I whipped this guy up, it’s a 2’x4’ , uses Nema 17s and GT2 belt, the main gantry uses 20x60, and the “X” axis is a single 20x60. The 2nd beam is currently there to reinforce only.
Anyways, I made the plates out of 1/4" MDF and printed the X axis plates and figured I could 3D Print as much else as possible, we shall see… I don’t think the MDF plates would hold up for very long at all, I was hoping at least a few prints so I could get new plates milled out of Garolite.
@Alex_Lee Thanks! The cool thing about this is that it uses an even number of 20x60 completely. For example, there are 2 crossbeams under the bed holding it in place. 4ft is roughly 1200mm, so I got 1000mm beams and then used offcuts to bridge the distance (219mm to be exact). Almost no waste. The only thing is that for your purposes it should be a dual X gantry, so you might need an extra piece of 20x40 for the reinforcement beam (as in the stock design).
I think this is a great conservative OX build, but the plates I designed aren’t ready yet. Obviously they should have the right angle brackets to hold the X beams by more than the end holes.
I’d love to talk to you more about Cohesion. You seem like you have a wealth of knowledge about 3D Printing, and deep down, one of my motivations is that I’m just trying to make a better printer. The website overhaul isn’t quite ready yet, but email me or hop on our new google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cohesion3d and I’ll post more info there in the next day or two.
