Those all sound like WAY better features than the thing I was working on. I know the inspect tool is useful for looking at cross sections, but I can’t see that being terribly useful unless you’re looking at someone else’s design. I only use it for finding center mass on weird shapes i want to hang on the wall.
What are you trying to measure in fusion? I use the “I” hotkey to measure everything. Only problem i have is with meshes, because it seems to think everything is a point.
Wait…Today the “I” tool is working much better. WEll shoot. Next time something seems off I will restart my computer before I start publicly complaining.
It would definitely be nice to get more stats in the tool, but I’m glad it’s working a little better. I have noticed that fusion gets updated kind of a lot, and the updates always seem to list bug bug bug new feature bug bug bug.
Joys of using your customers as beta testers…
Hey hey HEEEEEEYYYYYY!
That snazzy CF tube looks pretty sweet! Gotta be super lightweight. Looking forward to seeing more.
So far the total footprint is smaller than a MP3DP without taking things to the absolute minimum, and making room for the Hemera!
It is much lighter that I expected, and from the previous version I removed some hardware and wheels.
It looks really nice. Build in an extra cm or a few so when you want to mount something stupid on it, you can still get your print area.
Are you thinking this will be a 310mmx310mm? Something like that? Or are you going to build it 200x?
For now 200x, but it is open ended on all axis. With a fusion model I will try to build in some easy parametrics, but some things do need to move such as the rail holes depending on length.
So far it fits a hemera with room, I figure everything else is much smaller.
Cool, so 300X300X300 it is!
I like how your design process works… fun watching this project grow to maturity and hearing your thoughts on design decisions along the way. The cf and rollers may be a game changer in the end for all we know. It definitely sweetens the numbers for corexy at least.
Yeah I might have to build a bigger one to give it a go. At that point the CF might really make a difference in weight.
I have another picture to share but I rather wait to get the belts on the XY.
I have never really have shared this much of the design process. I feel very naked (but oddly it is kinda fun). I might have to share a live file at some point so ya’ll can see I am not very good at this stuff I am just persistent. I have a trash can full of prints that are not as good as I need them to be.
With their being a ridiculous number of printers out there these days it is very hard to be different for a good reason and not to just be different. This has a lot of duplicate parts and a tiny BOM, I use belts for triggers to make them adjustable without CAD (and make duplicate parts work), CF square tubing and rollers for weight reduction, and single plane references so extrusions are not needed but will work.
I really am trying to make something fun, and good, and different enough not to be considered a clone of anything.
Which is why I am really looking forward to building my own one of these.
In kendo (As well as various other martial arts I’ve studied) we say that the difference between the winner and the loser is that the winner didn’t give up when things went wrong. IMO, that’s what makes you good at this stuff.
I have a tendency to get to the 95% mark and then just throw stuff together to finish and call it “good enough” but then very few of my projects are ever really intended for anyone else to build as-is. I have many DIY projects which were intended as “proof of concept” and ended up being put into service. Then they stay there. It’s a terrible habit, but I suppose that means that the “proof of concept” really does prove that they work, lol.
I love that perspective.
I usually feel it starts like, “it can’t be this difficult of a problem” then turns into “Well, I came this far, might as well finish it” I get to that same 95% situation and think “well it works, I could take a few more minutes and make it better…but…it works as is”
“We do it, not because it is easy, but because we thought it was going to be easy”
That’s gold, I’m keeping it. And I’m going to use it in my best jfk impression.
Should be on a shirt.
I saw it on programming humor on reddit sometime. I have no idea who came up with it (obviously, I get the moonshot/JFK reference). Public Domain.
