I have been printing happily with my prusa i3 for years and a few weeks ago decided to build a new printer. Quickly I decided to go with corexy as designs were stiff (inside a cube of 2020 profiles) and build costs were reported to be reasonable. I am now mid- way finishing it. However I am having some second thoughts wherever corexy is a right type printer for me.
Here is what I want from the printer:
- 0.2mm layer height
- direct extruder mounted on X carriage for perfect retraction
- I am fine with 30mm/s print speed in order to get a good quality prints
- high repeatability in XY plane
It seems that corexy was designed with fast speeds in mind. I wonder if those metres of belts in XY plane might make repeatability suffer. I am thinking now that what I should have built is a cartesian printer built inside a cube of 2020 profiles.
I know there are people here who have been having some stiff cartesian printers and have moved to corexy so your comparison would be helpful.
Here is what I want from the printer:
- 0.2mm layer height
- direct extruder mounted on X carriage for perfect retraction
- I am fine with 30mm/s print speed in order to get a good quality prints
- high repeatability in XY plane
It seems that corexy was designed with fast speeds in mind. I wonder if those metres of belts in XY plane might make repeatability suffer. I am thinking now that what I should have built is a cartesian printer built inside a cube of 2020 profiles.
I know there are people here who have been having some stiff cartesian printers and have moved to corexy so your comparison would be helpful.