Im confused though: why not use stuff like concrete and make the parts significantly heavier? Or use a full steel frame resulting in the same. Im planning for my revision of my printer to use a steel frame and attach concrete blocks to the stationary gantry
@@chris_0725 well these are meant to be cheap and relatively easy to build via printing the frame. Using concrete and sheet metal would not fit the spec they gave themselves
You know what. I might build a Hypercube out of an aluminium box section and fill that with concrete. Steel is an option as well with the advantage that it will hold tapped thread really well, but I don't like the prospect of cutting the steel myself with a hand saw. Unless I can get the store to do it for me. There was also a steel conduit conversion of the Anet A8, the EMT8, unfortunately I found the price of the material unreasonable in my region.
Maybe this could even be improved by printing even larger versions of the non-moving frame parts with some hollow compartments and filling them with sand?
This is why I love the 3d printing community, so many possibilities! Gonna have to try this out! Thank you for researching and developing this printer, as well as sharing it!
Really blown away by what you were able to accomplish with this printer and it's really interesting to see your design philosophy/approach in action. I particularly like the choice of larger print area that's based on what most users would print out, while not being too small that it's too restrictive. I felt that was one of the limitations for the V.0 design. Looking forward to your build stream, and will look into sourcing the parts. Great work!
I run a retail plumbing parts business and we 3D print needed parts that are not available. We have 12 printers and I like what you have done. I will tackle your design in the near future.
The fact that if you pay attention to the examples in the video you won't notice that the boat is halfway finished, is nothing short of outstanding. I'm inspired to join this community!
Thank You for one of the best 3D printer videos I have ever come accross on RUclips. Your attention to details and the technically explained thought process that went into this design is amazing and something I have never come accross anywhere. I also build and mod printers but your video is outstanding and sends my knowledge about 3D printers to the stone age 😅. Keep up the outstanding work and I will follow your videos and want to build this printer myself one day 😁. You have a VERY BIG FAN from India 😊
Definitely setting the bar very high! Good job in the creation of this printer. The plastic bearings I believe are what's causing the vibration layer lines. I read this on a few forums while back try using the normal 8mm linear ball bearings on one of your prints.
Suggestions. At the bottom of your printer make a second printer with the weight of your printer head and reverse the motion of your printer this could help dampen the vibrations. Second remove the fan on the printer head and use an external fan with a tube.
I have been wanting to do this for ages, I started working on a 3D Printed printer some time back but became frustrated. I am going to build this. I should have a majority of the parts for it already. Such a great job on this.
Very inspiring. I've wanted to build a ratrig for a long time and even purchased a few components for it, but as I started getting into it I realised that it would end up costing more than I can afford. Seeing your printer makes me wonder if I could design my own printer at a lower cost.
Gonna start printing the parts in 2 days. I’m super excited to build this printer. This build will take me about 3 months to do. Saving for purchasing the parts needed. I will keep you posted
Awesome 3D printer, mate!! Speed and quality in the same machine, that's all I want of a 3D printer! 😁 Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, the BOM and all the other info and your thoughts behind every design element! Amazing work! Really looking forward to you streaming a build of The 100, since I have never put together a 3D printer before. I am already trying to get all the parts needed. Cheers!
I like many aspects of your design. My first coreXY printer was self-dsigned. It was nowhere as polished as this but it has a great frame 2040 for all. I would love to incorporate some of your design into my printer. I printed out your toolhead in clear PETG and it looks amazing. Thanks for incorporating the angled faces for easy printing.
Hi Matt, congratz on the video and the idea. The ideia of a affortable yet super capable printer is awesome. Are you going to share the CAD files? I really want to try customizing and building one.
I've been contemplating a fast small printer to supplement the large vorons in prototyping. The v.0 is just as you said. The annex machines are great, but spendy and complex. This could be pretty perfect, especially with a kit and a rough printed guide
This is great and I was going to build one. But then I saw the build area is so small that I wouldn’t know what to do with it. I hope you build something with at least more height for your next project.
Thank your for sticking to the ethics of open source! A fascinating device, I may actually want to build one as the small stuff I do doesn’t require perfect finish at all.
Great work, love the use of cheap ground rods instead of linear rails. I balked at voron's sticker price but this is very interesting to me. I maybe very well build 4 or 5 to amortised the shipping cost and bulk purchase discount
I really like the concept of this project and I hope your channel gains popularity. I have subscribed and will be watching closely as I’m seriously considering this as my first diy printer. Thank you for all your efforts.
Its fascinating what has happened since Adrian Bowyer has gone public with RepRap around 2010. I think he started, based on a idea of a student and started in 2005 and having bought very expensive commercial 3D printers for the University Bath before. 200x200x140 mm^3 and 19ml/hour. Very good work, very well explained.
That is extremely cool! If I was going to build this I would go a step further and add ceramic/steel plates to the frame to give it as much weight as possible to reduce vibrations. I might even fill the frame with epoxy to make it super rigid. I'm also slightly disappointed with the print volume, maybe I've become accustomed to 220x220 but that seems like a really easy modification to this design given how incredibly modular it is. A little trick I've learned from the guncad community is if you add threaded rods along the length of a print it can increase rigidity substantially, so for this printer you would add them going through the middle of each section of the frame then tighten on both sides with nuts to clamp everything together really tight.
Yeah, I think it would be an interesting idea to explore pauses in the gcode to insert steel bars for rigidity and weight. It could still keep it simple for DIY'ers without having to machine steel! yet get some of the advantages at least and with smart choices of common bar stock, it could be kept reasonably cheap ( I think) . I find it hard to believe that 3d printed plastic can be rigid enough... like compared to aluminum extrusions? the weaknesses of those has to be the joints... Although he did mention big advantages of being able to repostion the steppers in optimum locations. Obviously this design is very sound tho! Its incredibly impressive! And totally on point with RepRap. using a printer to make another printer (oh yeah its also 10 times better!!!!!)
@@DavidBaumgarner Thats a really interesting idea I hadn't even considered, I've seen meter long lengths of stainless rods going for around 20-30 euro on ebay. You would only need a handful of them for the entire printer if you cut them down to size. I agree with you on the joints, they're definitely the biggest source of vibration/lack of rigidity. Some sort of joint that would allow compression would be preferable, maybe even just bolts on the outside edge of the frame?
My method for steel-reinforced plastic is to model internal thread, print the part then drop some CA glue into the threads and screw in a large screw. I would NOT advise trying to insert metal while printing. The adhesion would be poor and the plastic will change dimensions as it cools. It is best to use adhesive after the plastic cools. But MORE IMPORTANTLY, why are people suggesting fixes when they don't have data. You should first test to find the bottlenecks and not just randomly try things. I suspect cooling and extruder speed is what limits this printer to "only" 400 mm/second. To go really fast you have to spend $$$ for bigger direct drive extruders (maybe even 3 mm filament) and a water-cooled hot end. Then you need even bigger A/B motos and a stronger frame and then you've spent $2K. A printer's speed is limited by how many cubic mm of plastic it can extrude per second. This printer is already doing about 40 MM^3. To go twice as fast you would need to find a way to do 80.
This video is awesome I've just purchased a 3d printer and know nothing about it really but i would love to build a printer to get a better understanding of it! Hope to make one some day!
I just had an Idea for increasing speed and/or torque of stepper motors. You could get a reduction timing belt kit with lower torque faster speed lighter stepper motors. This would make your 0.9 stepper motors more like 0.3 stepper motors which should increase accuracy and torque and reduce load on the actual motors. If you can liquify the filament fast enough I think you can really increase speed and accuracy. by mechanically reducing your drive ratio you would have to seriously increase power output to the steppers. Probably going to need water cooling or maybe even liquid nitrogen cooling but maybe that's extreme. THis might also help with stepper drivers staying cooler also.
I printed that t-800 but with the base at 0.2 layers on an ender 3 pretty much unmodded except the part cooling and an all metal heatbreak, not stock profile though, stock ender 3 profile is trash. it took 21 hours. I have no idea how it would take 82 hours on even the stock profile.
Very nice printer! I am planning to build one! I also was looking at @Rolohaun's Rook mk1 mostly printed 3d printer, which is a great design aswell...I like the simplicity of round liner rods being used and believe in easily obtainable replacement components. Great Job on the 100 printer, looking forward to building one very soon!
I hope this comment helps get you some more visibility. It was obviously how I found you, so hopefully others will also benefit from your work. I'm going to take a close look at what you've done. It looks amazing!
no linear rails, no carbon fiber rods... Although does not seem that kinematics are the limiting factor here... It seems like flow rates and cooling must be limiting you, right? Excellent job... Pretty impressive!
This is awesome. I have an old Solidoodle frame with witch I'd wager I can bastardize this motion system into. And a buddy who's keen on assembling a fully printed version!
I have a 10S Pro V1 with lots of upgrades but i now need a production machine to make many parts fast but i am a poor retired hobbyist. Your design seems to hit a nerve in my brain. As a former automation and robotics manufacturing engineer I know all your discoveries are dead on. Is it truly buildable by an old man with a 10s Pro? and the parts list of stuff needed realistic at $350. Very interesting Project. Dennis in Virginia
i would make a suggestion, is to have the print head underneath, nozzle facing up and the platform up above upside down. This would place the center of gravity (interia) low, unlike having it high causing the box to wobble when printing at high speed. there is a smiliar printer that prints upside down called Positron V3 that does this and is extremly fast printer
another idea, a 2 stage hot end. Would have to custom made, but the first stage heats to maybe 60 to 100 degrees with the 2nd stage heating to the final temp.
Very cool! I feel like the importance of the frame weight might be overblown though. Stiffness matters so any movement will translate to the surface it's on. But instead of a fixed contact with the table, imagine if the whole printer were sitting on a free floating platform. Any x-y move of the gantry would then cause a counteracting x-y move of the printer on this platform. If the platform were infinite, there's no problem. This actually seems better than a rigid base as there's no backreaction on the print head that causes ringing. So if the free floating platform were made of some some rails, add some large but soft springs to dampen the printer's movements. A massive frame basically does the same thing just using inertia. Would be a cool experiment at least. The frame would move with fast print head movements, but maybe you wouldn't get those resonances as long as it was stiff and the springs properly damped.
This looks like an amazing printer. I'm looking at the BOM and sourcing the materials for maybe building it myself, but I'm having some issues with sourcing some parts. Where did you buy the heatbed? I'm having some trouble finding it online. Also, all the hotends I'm finding are more expensive than the price you listed in the BOM, so a link to that would be really helpful as well. Thanks for open sourcing your cool project!
I sourced everything out of aliexpress. Have a look at our Discord Server. There the community collects sources for the all the parts and shares them with each other
Hi, I think this is great. Could you make a video or text explaining some design choices? If weight is needed why not just add weight with a heavy floor tile or a 3d printed cubile to be filled with cement. Maybe bolting the printer to the wall. Im not an engineer of any sort, I don't really understand the square alignment of weights. Also dual Z leadscrews? a cold bed? I think this is all very interesting, and would love to try 3d printred frame
Coupling the bed screws to the top frame firectly instead of a load path through the z linear rails, bottom frame, stepper bearings,couplers,and the full length of the screws might be an improvement. You seem to have your head screwed on straight when it comes to mechanical design so I know my comment will be appreciated. The motors can still be at the bottom and rigidly mounted against rotation but flexible in Z, then couple the screws to your top frame with bearings suited to axial loads. Nuts to be positioned conventionally. Or another option since you are space constrained between the bed and top frame, drive the z screws by belt from an offset motor but still mount the screws to the top frame by a thrust bearing.
Several PLA manufacturers have improved PLA performance in specific engineered situations. One example, Polymaker. Printed RC Airplanes PLA Lite (Extra Foamy) Drones Industrial Strength. PLA Polymax (Outperforms ABS) How would either of these Engineered PLA's affect The 100's design? When increasing the bed size to 300mm x 300mm? Will they help in limiting flex as the size of The 100 increases? What concerns can be overcome by selecting an engineered PLA instead of regular PLA?
it might be appropriate to place the printer head at the bottom as well to increase the weight at the bottom even more and unload the top, so that it prints upside down on the table, as stl printers do
I've build my own 3d printer, the goal, reliable operation. I never built for speed, but I've had an idea that I want to try out. This is to move the fan off the print head. I have a large blower fan that I am going to make a duct for and then run tubing down to the print head the only weight on the print head will be the tubing plus whatever I put there to hold it in place. I plan on using 4 pieces of tubing pointed at the print area, though this idea may change as well. I am thinking perhaps a manifold made of nothing but flexible tubing with holes drilled into it, with all holes pointing at the print. I need to do the design and testing, but I don't mind; this is the whole reason I built my own printer after all...
Love this but I agree with the commentary. 300×300 version would be perfect! I make repeating crossbows this would be a blessing for my business! 🙏 ..Edit; Thought of a name for it.. THE 300
I just started printing the rook yesterday but now I'm questioning if I want to switch over to this one instead. Really I just wanted to check out corexy printers as I got into printing a couple months ago and maxed out my speed and quality I can achieve with my sv06. Great printer but I still want more. Guess I'll be building this one as well too probably haha
Dear Matt,I loved your video and admire your perseverance and focus to produce this. The video showed a great summary of lots of videos and experiments that I have watched on youtube. I love the speed that it prints at, as one of the things that stopped me from using my 3d printer was the time to print. The second was strength. Will your cooling that is needed for the overhangs and speed affect the strength? My impression is that the layers do not stick so well if cooled, and that is why people may heat the prints in ovens with bicarb, to get them to weld together and become stronger. Or is this overcome by the greater heat buffer capacity and flow of the nozzle. (My frustrations with lots of learning issues with my alfawise u20, and clogged nozzles, and flat bed issues with the print over sticking and then peeling off after a few layers, learning cad software etc. make me appreciate your work more. The thing which really upset me was when it did print the part was weak despite orientation and infill. All I wanted was a flymo hinge pin. In frustration I got a disposable extra 2 razor handle and made it do the job. I will revisit 3d printing having had a break.
I love that others in the community are slowly beginning to realize that the non-moving components need to be as heavy as possible! Great work!
Im confused though: why not use stuff like concrete and make the parts significantly heavier? Or use a full steel frame resulting in the same. Im planning for my revision of my printer to use a steel frame and attach concrete blocks to the stationary gantry
@@chris_0725 well these are meant to be cheap and relatively easy to build via printing the frame. Using concrete and sheet metal would not fit the spec they gave themselves
You know what. I might build a Hypercube out of an aluminium box section and fill that with concrete. Steel is an option as well with the advantage that it will hold tapped thread really well, but I don't like the prospect of cutting the steel myself with a hand saw. Unless I can get the store to do it for me.
There was also a steel conduit conversion of the Anet A8, the EMT8, unfortunately I found the price of the material unreasonable in my region.
Maybe this could even be improved by printing even larger versions of the non-moving frame parts with some hollow compartments and filling them with sand?
@@MrMoralHazard Sand might also work as a good damping material, which would increase performance.
This is why I love the 3d printing community, so many possibilities! Gonna have to try this out! Thank you for researching and developing this printer, as well as sharing it!
Really blown away by what you were able to accomplish with this printer and it's really interesting to see your design philosophy/approach in action. I particularly like the choice of larger print area that's based on what most users would print out, while not being too small that it's too restrictive. I felt that was one of the limitations for the V.0 design.
Looking forward to your build stream, and will look into sourcing the parts. Great work!
Amazing video, great work
Your amazing work has evolved!!!
I run a retail plumbing parts business and we 3D print needed parts that are not available. We have 12 printers and I like what you have done. I will tackle your design in the near future.
The fact that if you pay attention to the examples in the video you won't notice that the boat is halfway finished, is nothing short of outstanding. I'm inspired to join this community!
Just came from reddit...
This is impressive, well done.
Thank You for one of the best 3D printer videos I have ever come accross on RUclips. Your attention to details and the technically explained thought process that went into this design is amazing and something I have never come accross anywhere. I also build and mod printers but your video is outstanding and sends my knowledge about 3D printers to the stone age 😅. Keep up the outstanding work and I will follow your videos and want to build this printer myself one day 😁. You have a VERY BIG FAN from India 😊
Definitely setting the bar very high! Good job in the creation of this printer. The plastic bearings I believe are what's causing the vibration layer lines. I read this on a few forums while back try using the normal 8mm linear ball bearings on one of your prints.
Hey Bud, ur a HELL of an Engineer!!!! Very strong work!!!
As someone just getting into the hobby, this diving head first into the speedy benchy's has been fun to watch.
Suggestions. At the bottom of your printer make a second printer with the weight of your printer head and reverse the motion of your printer this could help dampen the vibrations. Second remove the fan on the printer head and use an external fan with a tube.
One more extreme thing. Don't know if would work but maybe building it in a vacuum chamber to remove air drag. Or a chamber with N2
I have been wanting to do this for ages, I started working on a 3D Printed printer some time back but became frustrated. I am going to build this. I should have a majority of the parts for it already. Such a great job on this.
Very inspiring. I've wanted to build a ratrig for a long time and even purchased a few components for it, but as I started getting into it I realised that it would end up costing more than I can afford. Seeing your printer makes me wonder if I could design my own printer at a lower cost.
Gonna start printing the parts in 2 days. I’m super excited to build this printer. This build will take me about 3 months to do. Saving for purchasing the parts needed. I will keep you posted
Congratulations on the project!
Great work!! Awesome. It's great to see the thought and planning which went into this. Nice!
Cool, would love to see you build one LIVE. Plus, everyone needs a cheap and affordable speedy-quality DIY 3D print. THX
This is dope! Probably my last build before I design my own printer. Great work!!
Intriguing! Always looking for people making real projects with their printers (especially new printers!).
I'll definitely have to keep an eye out for future developments
Awesome 3D printer, mate!!
Speed and quality in the same machine, that's all I want of a 3D printer! 😁
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, the BOM and all the other info and your thoughts behind every design element! Amazing work!
Really looking forward to you streaming a build of The 100, since I have never put together a 3D printer before.
I am already trying to get all the parts needed.
Cheers!
Thank you! I will definitely look into this!
I like many aspects of your design. My first coreXY printer was self-dsigned. It was nowhere as polished as this but it has a great frame 2040 for all. I would love to incorporate some of your design into my printer.
I printed out your toolhead in clear PETG and it looks amazing. Thanks for incorporating the angled faces for easy printing.
Amazing. I'm gonna dive in and build one
Hi Matt, congratz on the video and the idea. The ideia of a affortable yet super capable printer is awesome. Are you going to share the CAD files? I really want to try customizing and building one.
I've been contemplating a fast small printer to supplement the large vorons in prototyping. The v.0 is just as you said. The annex machines are great, but spendy and complex. This could be pretty perfect, especially with a kit and a rough printed guide
Thanks Matt, thanks for a beautiful printer, thanks for sharing.
This is great and I was going to build one. But then I saw the build area is so small that I wouldn’t know what to do with it. I hope you build something with at least more height for your next project.
This is the first diy printer that I've genuinely thought about making.
This man is undersubscribed. Have some engagement.
Would like to follow your project and build one. Seems your design principles make a lot of sense
Great vid! Have a few spare parts that might work.
Love seeing all the diy printed printers. I hope to build at least one at some point.
Thank your for sticking to the ethics of open source!
A fascinating device, I may actually want to build one as the small stuff I do doesn’t require perfect finish at all.
Woahhhh hold up. I didn’t realize that this is a 3D printed frame and PLA too! This is definitely on my project list now 😮
Ohh this means that the frame was not chunky enough... :-)
Thank you, great design, great to make it open source! Could you also share the CAD files to make modding easier?
Nice job!!! I love seeing others expand on people 3d printers
Great work, love the use of cheap ground rods instead of linear rails. I balked at voron's sticker price but this is very interesting to me. I maybe very well build 4 or 5 to amortised the shipping cost and bulk purchase discount
I really like the concept of this project and I hope your channel gains popularity. I have subscribed and will be watching closely as I’m seriously considering this as my first diy printer. Thank you for all your efforts.
Impressive and impressively generous of you to share. I'm inspired to give it a go.
this is absolutely incredible!!!! i think i need one !!
REALLY REALLY WELL DONE!
Nice build! I hope a nice community grows around it. Thank you for the work and sharing and contribution to the open source hardware ecosystem.
Its fascinating what has happened since Adrian Bowyer has gone public with RepRap around 2010. I think he started, based on a idea of a student and started in 2005 and having bought very expensive commercial 3D printers for the University Bath before.
200x200x140 mm^3 and 19ml/hour.
Very good work, very well explained.
That is extremely cool! If I was going to build this I would go a step further and add ceramic/steel plates to the frame to give it as much weight as possible to reduce vibrations. I might even fill the frame with epoxy to make it super rigid.
I'm also slightly disappointed with the print volume, maybe I've become accustomed to 220x220 but that seems like a really easy modification to this design given how incredibly modular it is.
A little trick I've learned from the guncad community is if you add threaded rods along the length of a print it can increase rigidity substantially, so for this printer you would add them going through the middle of each section of the frame then tighten on both sides with nuts to clamp everything together really tight.
Yeah, I think it would be an interesting idea to explore pauses in the gcode to insert steel bars for rigidity and weight. It could still keep it simple for DIY'ers without having to machine steel! yet get some of the advantages at least and with smart choices of common bar stock, it could be kept reasonably cheap ( I think) .
I find it hard to believe that 3d printed plastic can be rigid enough... like compared to aluminum extrusions? the weaknesses of those has to be the joints... Although he did mention big advantages of being able to repostion the steppers in optimum locations.
Obviously this design is very sound tho! Its incredibly impressive!
And totally on point with RepRap. using a printer to make another printer (oh yeah its also 10 times better!!!!!)
@@DavidBaumgarner Thats a really interesting idea I hadn't even considered, I've seen meter long lengths of stainless rods going for around 20-30 euro on ebay. You would only need a handful of them for the entire printer if you cut them down to size.
I agree with you on the joints, they're definitely the biggest source of vibration/lack of rigidity. Some sort of joint that would allow compression would be preferable, maybe even just bolts on the outside edge of the frame?
My method for steel-reinforced plastic is to model internal thread, print the part then drop some CA glue into the threads and screw in a large screw. I would NOT advise trying to insert metal while printing. The adhesion would be poor and the plastic will change dimensions as it cools. It is best to use adhesive after the plastic cools. But MORE IMPORTANTLY, why are people suggesting fixes when they don't have data. You should first test to find the bottlenecks and not just randomly try things. I suspect cooling and extruder speed is what limits this printer to "only" 400 mm/second. To go really fast you have to spend $$$ for bigger direct drive extruders (maybe even 3 mm filament) and a water-cooled hot end. Then you need even bigger A/B motos and a stronger frame and then you've spent $2K. A printer's speed is limited by how many cubic mm of plastic it can extrude per second. This printer is already doing about 40 MM^3. To go twice as fast you would need to find a way to do 80.
This video is awesome I've just purchased a 3d printer and know nothing about it really but i would love to build a printer to get a better understanding of it! Hope to make one some day!
I was planning on building rook180 but this printer is amazing.
I will be waiting for your build stream 👍
I planned the build stream for mid of april. I've ordered all the parts needed yesterday, but it takes 3-4 weeks for the shipping.
@@MattThePrintingNerd I'm subbing so I don't miss that. This looks so promising!
très belle imprimante et très rapide . très bon travail j'adore maintenant j'ai envie d'en fabriquer une
This is awesome! I will def be following and attempting this project. Thank you for sharing your work!
This thing is amazing. Really brings out the RepRap spirit!
I just had an Idea for increasing speed and/or torque of stepper motors. You could get a reduction timing belt kit with lower torque faster speed lighter stepper motors. This would make your 0.9 stepper motors more like 0.3 stepper motors which should increase accuracy and torque and reduce load on the actual motors. If you can liquify the filament fast enough I think you can really increase speed and accuracy. by mechanically reducing your drive ratio you would have to seriously increase power output to the steppers. Probably going to need water cooling or maybe even liquid nitrogen cooling but maybe that's extreme. THis might also help with stepper drivers staying cooler also.
I may have to build something like this...
go for it, it is easy to build and a good introduction to printer construction! Don't forget to send me pictures when it's finished ;-)
This looks awesome!
Definitely want to build one I think, really cool concept and I think most of my prints also fall into the 165mm² range
Great work, I think it would be more easier if it use bed with same size as ender 3 since it is widely available in the market.
Exactly my thoughts
I printed that t-800 but with the base at 0.2 layers on an ender 3 pretty much unmodded except the part cooling and an all metal heatbreak, not stock profile though, stock ender 3 profile is trash. it took 21 hours. I have no idea how it would take 82 hours on even the stock profile.
Will Try... Thanks...
Have been looking into building my first coreXY printer to compliment my growing collection of Bambu P1Ps, going to give The 100 a shot!
Very nice printer! I am planning to build one! I also was looking at @Rolohaun's Rook mk1 mostly printed 3d printer, which is a great design aswell...I like the simplicity of round liner rods being used and believe in easily obtainable replacement components. Great Job on the 100 printer, looking forward to building one very soon!
I hope this comment helps get you some more visibility. It was obviously how I found you, so hopefully others will also benefit from your work. I'm going to take a close look at what you've done. It looks amazing!
Very exciting to see how this project will evolve. Nice!
the lens used to show the overall printer on the desk makes it look distorted in many shots.
Amazing work !!! 😀
Patrick from Bethesda Maryland USA !!!
This is makes me proud to be part of this community.
no linear rails, no carbon fiber rods... Although does not seem that kinematics are the limiting factor here... It seems like flow rates and cooling must be limiting you, right?
Excellent job... Pretty impressive!
I really like your design and explanation Matt. I learned a lot from this. Thanks.
This is awesome.
I have an old Solidoodle frame with witch I'd wager I can bastardize this motion system into.
And a buddy who's keen on assembling a fully printed version!
Amazing work
This might be the wrong direction for you but I would love to see an expandable larger print bed. High performance parts.
I have a 10S Pro V1 with lots of upgrades but i now need a production machine to make many parts fast but i am a poor retired hobbyist. Your design seems to hit a nerve in my brain. As a former automation and robotics manufacturing engineer I know all your discoveries are dead on. Is it truly buildable by an old man with a 10s Pro? and the parts list of stuff needed realistic at $350. Very interesting Project. Dennis in Virginia
Hey Dennis, as a manufacturing engineer this will be a piece of cake, as long as your printer is able to print bigger parts without warping.
@@MattThePrintingNerd can do, tender chassis, empire state building in 1/64 scale this is pretty exciting.
Good stuff!
i would make a suggestion, is to have the print head underneath, nozzle facing up and the platform up above upside down. This would place the center of gravity (interia) low, unlike having it high causing the box to wobble when printing at high speed. there is a smiliar printer that prints upside down called Positron V3 that does this and is extremly fast printer
another idea, a 2 stage hot end. Would have to custom made, but the first stage heats to maybe 60 to 100 degrees with the 2nd stage heating to the final temp.
I if pyramid shaped / angled sides would help improve rigidity and reduce vibrations.
YES! Please do a live construction!
I'd love to see a full build video
Currently im producing a assembly guide video series. The first video will come at the beginning of next week, following by one video per week.
@@MattThePrintingNerd Nice! Very cool printer. I just got a P1P myself but I've been wanting to build something so this might be in my future :-)
Very cool! I feel like the importance of the frame weight might be overblown though. Stiffness matters so any movement will translate to the surface it's on. But instead of a fixed contact with the table, imagine if the whole printer were sitting on a free floating platform. Any x-y move of the gantry would then cause a counteracting x-y move of the printer on this platform. If the platform were infinite, there's no problem.
This actually seems better than a rigid base as there's no backreaction on the print head that causes ringing. So if the free floating platform were made of some some rails, add some large but soft springs to dampen the printer's movements. A massive frame basically does the same thing just using inertia.
Would be a cool experiment at least. The frame would move with fast print head movements, but maybe you wouldn't get those resonances as long as it was stiff and the springs properly damped.
Nice work!
That's incredible.
thank you for sharing your design !
Brilliant!😃
How is it different from rook
Great work 🌷
More videos please!😊
This looks like an amazing printer.
I'm looking at the BOM and sourcing the materials for maybe building it myself, but I'm having some issues with sourcing some parts.
Where did you buy the heatbed? I'm having some trouble finding it online.
Also, all the hotends I'm finding are more expensive than the price you listed in the BOM, so a link to that would be really helpful as well.
Thanks for open sourcing your cool project!
Please update the bom to include amazon US links, thanks
I sourced everything out of aliexpress. Have a look at our Discord Server. There the community collects sources for the all the parts and shares them with each other
@@MattThePrintingNerd Awesome! Will be joining!
U gave me reason build another printer ✌🏻🔥 Voron was too easy, hope so this is more difficult and rewarding 😄🤣 Wife will be happy again 🤣 🇫🇮
Yeah.. i have deal with my wife. Im allowed to have 3 printers in our apartment, I need to sell one before Im allowed to build a new one :-D
Amazing work! (also, I'm commenting for the algo)
Hi, I think this is great. Could you make a video or text explaining some design choices?
If weight is needed why not just add weight with a heavy floor tile or a 3d printed cubile to be filled with cement. Maybe bolting the printer to the wall. Im not an engineer of any sort, I don't really understand the square alignment of weights.
Also dual Z leadscrews? a cold bed?
I think this is all very interesting, and would love to try 3d printred frame
wonderful job!
Coupling the bed screws to the top frame firectly instead of a load path through the z linear rails, bottom frame, stepper bearings,couplers,and the full length of the screws might be an improvement. You seem to have your head screwed on straight when it comes to mechanical design so I know my comment will be appreciated.
The motors can still be at the bottom and rigidly mounted against rotation but flexible in Z, then couple the screws to your top frame with bearings suited to axial loads. Nuts to be positioned conventionally.
Or another option since you are space constrained between the bed and top frame, drive the z screws by belt from an offset motor but still mount the screws to the top frame by a thrust bearing.
Several PLA manufacturers have improved PLA performance in specific engineered situations.
One example, Polymaker.
Printed RC Airplanes
PLA Lite (Extra Foamy)
Drones
Industrial Strength.
PLA Polymax (Outperforms ABS)
How would either of these Engineered PLA's affect The 100's design? When increasing the bed size to 300mm x 300mm? Will they help in limiting flex as the size of The 100 increases?
What concerns can be overcome by selecting an engineered PLA instead of regular PLA?
No PLA is fine
Great job!
it might be appropriate to place the printer head at the bottom as well to increase the weight at the bottom even more and unload the top, so that it prints upside down on the table, as stl printers do
I've build my own 3d printer, the goal, reliable operation. I never built for speed, but I've had an idea that I want to try out. This is to move the fan off the print head. I have a large blower fan that I am going to make a duct for and then run tubing down to the print head the only weight on the print head will be the tubing plus whatever I put there to hold it in place. I plan on using 4 pieces of tubing pointed at the print area, though this idea may change as well. I am thinking perhaps a manifold made of nothing but flexible tubing with holes drilled into it, with all holes pointing at the print. I need to do the design and testing, but I don't mind; this is the whole reason I built my own printer after all...
Good work👍
Love this but I agree with the commentary. 300×300 version would be perfect!
I make repeating crossbows this would be a blessing for my business! 🙏
..Edit; Thought of a name for it..
THE 300
Fantastic work sir! Would you happen to have the print profiles for download?
Did you try the link in the description?
I've added them to the github repository
I just started printing the rook yesterday but now I'm questioning if I want to switch over to this one instead. Really I just wanted to check out corexy printers as I got into printing a couple months ago and maxed out my speed and quality I can achieve with my sv06. Great printer but I still want more. Guess I'll be building this one as well too probably haha
In my experience the Rook has similar printspeed as a well tuned sv06 at a bit better quality.
Idea- what if you print the frame with zero infill (vase mode) and fill it with a heavier substance like sand?
Dear Matt,I loved your video and admire your perseverance and focus to produce this. The video showed a great summary of lots of videos and experiments that I have watched on youtube.
I love the speed that it prints at, as one of the things that stopped me from using my 3d printer was the time to print. The second was strength. Will your cooling that is needed for the overhangs and speed affect the strength? My impression is that the layers do not stick so well if cooled, and that is why people may heat the prints in ovens with bicarb, to get them to weld together and become stronger. Or is this overcome by the greater heat buffer capacity and flow of the nozzle.
(My frustrations with lots of learning issues with my alfawise u20, and clogged nozzles, and flat bed issues with the print over sticking and then peeling off after a few layers, learning cad software etc. make me appreciate your work more.
The thing which really upset me was when it did print the part was weak despite orientation and infill. All I wanted was a flymo hinge pin. In frustration I got a disposable extra 2 razor handle and made it do the job. I will revisit 3d printing having had a break.
Super effort! Now can we upscale it to 300x300?