Some of you may remember that I requested a parametric openscad mendelmax-inspired printer a

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Some of you may remember that I requested a parametric openscad mendelmax-inspired printer a while back…
I could not find a good code base, so I made it myself :slight_smile:

At last; here is the the new printer up and running!
I wanted to fully explore the traditional cartesian mendel design before moving on to fancier motion mechanics, and I’m quite happy that I did.

The code is extremely parametric, my instance of it is using 12mm rods for Y/Z and 10mm for X, with IGUS RJ4JP bearings (ultra-silent).

New lightweight extruder design works great (using 70gr thin/pancake stepper and 13/60 metal gears).
It’s ~300 grams total, which is 1/2 of what my old carriage weighed!

The extruder fans are currently by far the noisiest components (using TMC2100/SilentStepStick stepper drivers), need to switch to 40mm fan on the hotend and a blower fan as layer fan to reduce noise.

Code available at http://github.com/oysteinkrog/kmax1

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Well done! More on the pancake stepper?

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See my previous post for some more details :slight_smile:

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Ah, thanks. I see the pix a few posts back. A regular shape stepper, just very thin. (When you wrote “pancake” I thought you might be talking about one of the round-bodied stepper types along the lines of http://www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/m2015p.html