I am about to release my second fully open-source printer design. This time, it is a 100% scaleable design (speaking of printvolume and number of extruders). To prepare the printer and it’s size-variations for launch, I am thinking about what sizes to publish as “demo-sizes”, preconfigured and “ready to build”.
Until now, I have designed a 200mm x 200mm printarea with dual-extrusion (because it’s a standard size) and a 250mm x 300mm printarea with quad-extrusion (because I like this particular size).
What do you think, what a preferable printersize would be?
Excited to see the design. I think design size should be fit around a great heated bed. The heated bed from the prusa i3 mk2 is a nice one. I like something between 200 and 250.
Oh no objections there, but I did get the PCB heaters for 200x200 and 300x300 b/c I felt they would be easier to deal with (for a quick one or two off design) than having to get a metal heatspreader made for adhering the silicone to. I can just put glass onto the PCB heater and be done. Otherwise, yes, silicone heaters all the way.
I don’t want to dissapoint you two, but I 'm not able to outperform my DICE sizewise. For 100mm print-width the printer is going to be nearly 300mm wide, that is 50% bigger. And not as beautiful as the DICE. Scale-able designs do have limits.
