Looking to build a niche machine for printing orthopedic devices (mostly prosthetic sockets) and looking into motion systems.
What do you all think about the new Craftbot 3 gantry system?
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It is almost like a Cartesian & H-bot hybrid, so shorter belts, no stacked or crossed belts, and a mechanically (albeit not so much w/ firmware) simple IDEX implementation w/ no moving motors (other than extruders). Seems like it would be easy to keep the non-extruding motors out of the heat zone for a heated build area if necessary as well.
Leaning going this direction (probably with only 1 Y motor like FFCP/Replicator) and willing to fight the firmware battles to end up with a more straightforward alternative to the CoreXYU or heavier cartesian IDEX in the long run.
What do you all think about the new Craftbot 3 gantry system?
It is almost like a Cartesian & H-bot hybrid, so shorter belts, no stacked or crossed belts, and a mechanically (albeit not so much w/ firmware) simple IDEX implementation w/ no moving motors (other than extruders). Seems like it would be easy to keep the non-extruding motors out of the heat zone for a heated build area if necessary as well.
Leaning going this direction (probably with only 1 Y motor like FFCP/Replicator) and willing to fight the firmware battles to end up with a more straightforward alternative to the CoreXYU or heavier cartesian IDEX in the long run.