Look guys. I have a 3d printer hahahahaha
sure you should be able to use a normal miller as a 3d printer. Just need to add a print head and then program it 
@Daniel_Soderlund_Var Nope. You need a have a 5 axis one, connect the A-axis to your extruder stepper, (That’s the easy part)…and then find any way to have the B-axis control the temperature of the hot-end. (That’s the hard part)
@Marcus_Wolschon Hmm, if you see heat and filament flow as axis yes other that it’s just 3 axis, X Y Z .
Filament flow is a single axis. It’s a stepper that you need to control in speed and in direction. What good is a printer that extrudes each layer at the wrong rate?
Temperature is an analog value that changes. So you can’t control it via a relay output.
Ok, didn’t think of it that. Well then some modifications is needed. but the basic mechanics is there.
XD… it prints air in a volume of metal
In all seriousness I may make a mount for my volcano and do a large plate that can mount in the t-slots that can be a bit compliant. I would be interested to see how nice the prints come out of a super stiff ball screw driven machine vs what we normally see. It’s running on machine kit so adding the extruder axis is easy and I was thinking of just using a spare ramps and an LCD to drive the temps manually.
actually, it runs about 300mm/min. I just dont trust it to move that fast yet lol.
Interesting idea, I hate to think about how much hassle it would be to get everything to work just right.
nah, it should be easy. Printing with MachineKit is proven and easy. just need to add a driver and activate the A axis. The heaters if I run through through a ramps board is silly easy. Do your PID calibrations and the rest is standalone.