New effector under construction for my E3D Lite6 hotend with dual part cooling fans. (Kossel Mini compatible)
The FreeCAD files and STLs can be found here:
@Alex_Skoruppa Those are fan ducts for 30 mm fans, same as the E3D standard fan.
That looks so awesome. I’m a teacher and use Creo. I will be retiring soon and I hope to be using FreeCad for my 3d printer designs and for generating dxfs for my plasma cutting at home. I don’t want to be tied to a commercial product requiring serial number updates every 2 years… and would rather just run it in my Debian system rather than a VM of Win8 inside of Jessie… This is so encouraging and inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
@Jim_Christiansen definitely give FreeCAD a spin it’s a great tool. Just save frequently. While newer versions are much more stable it is still a 0.X release. If you create impossible constraints it might crash. I recommend splitting a project in multiple files. You can take a look at my printer files here:
OK, thank you. I’ll spend some time going through the zip. I struggled with FreeCad constraints last summer for a simple plasma job… It took me forever to sort out! Your work looks beautiful.
@Jim_Christiansen thank you, this project is actually the first time I did any CAD though its been a long time since I started it (and a few revisions and smaller projects inbetween). Youtube was really helpfull ;).
Hello Kai. I just noticed your parallel cable connection- 25 pin?? to the central carriage in one of the 3 photos you have on git. How does it work with the hotend power leads? Does it overheat the connections? It sure is a convenient way to wire the main carriage.
@Jim_Christiansen I just finished assembling it and will make a post in a few minutes with photos of the connector. It has the format of a 25 pin DSub but it is actually mixed contact 2 power contacts and 5 pins for thermistor and fans.