RailCore II corexy
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Woohoo, this is looking good.
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Last night I sunk the brass inserts into the printed parts, drilled out all the holes, and completed all the "Pre-Build" items, including getting the last printed parts done.
Here's a pic of all the printed parts together.
Tonight I built the outer frame, and documented it. Went together well, honestly documenting took more time than building.
Here's a picture of the "Day 2" progress.
http://imgur.com/d56LkdyI had to stop because of a small issue with the printed yokes - the antibacklash nuts I used (from the BOM) have a 16mm hole spacing, the yoke has a 22mm spacing. Quick change and I'll reprint tomorrow and get back to building.
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Tonight's progress updates.
Z-axis installed. Minor reprints on the assembly tools for lining up the vertical Z extrusions. Documented and photographed the install of the leadscrews, which took a while. It all went together fairly easily (other than some headache with a bearing that was a tad too snug on a leadscrew).
Tomorrow - sides!
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Last night I got a lot more than sides done. Idler on, and the Y rail on. Starting to look like a real printer.
Side note, with the sides on, this thing is super solid. There's no way it's flexing or having stability issues.
Some minor corrections and edits to parts, and some little missing bits of hardware to add the the BOM. The assembly is going well, though. It's a fairly easy printer to put together, really.
Edit: finally got the right pictures linked!
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Current status:
Some minor delays prevented me from completing it yesterday, but it's close. Bed & Hotend are on. Endstops are in place.Only thing left to do is to mount the electronics, wire it, and power it on.
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Looking good!
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Today's Status:
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Beautiful! I am curios to know what the best achievable speed while maintaining quality is.
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So, I'm printing. I still have some tidying up to do on the electronics (need to box up that side once I'm sure the wiring is all settled). Need to wrap the wires up, etc. Print a paneldue enclosure and attach it. Little miscellaneous items like that. There's a slight bit of tweaking to be done to get the plane of the bed completely flat. It's close, but it can be better.
So the click of "print" on the first test, a 20mmx20x10 cube, gave a very nice result with mesurements 20.04 x 19.98 x 9.99.
Here's the second print, the traditional benchy.
I've printed enough of them to say I can look at this one and not see anything that stands out as needing drastic improvement. There was no appreciable stringing - just 3 or 4 fine wisps. The surface is even, the cooling was excellent (the line of the bow shows zero sights of any curling) and all the thin walls meet nicely. That was printed at 75mm/s. Edit: the last pic seems to show a layer or two that bulge in the bottom right. They don't in person - I checked after I saw them in the pic. I think it's a trick of the filament and the lighting)
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I did fight with Z motion for a while yesterday, was really weird. I'd get double, half, no movement, or even movement in the opposite direction from sending a simple G1 Z10 / G1 Z-10. Reflashing the firmware resolved that one.
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Beautiful! I am curios to know what the best achievable speed while maintaining quality is.
Kraegar printed the benchy at 75mm/s; I've gone as high as 90mm/s with .4 nozzle at lower layer heights with only slight ringing. Kraegar's build seems to be performing a bit better than my prototype "alpha" model, so we'll have to wait for his high-speed tests.
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Noticing some variation in the IR probe trigger heights across the bed. Trying to figure out what's causing that - square printers are new to me so there's some learning curve there. I like to chase perfection on these things. Everything's within .1mm across the bed currently, but I'd like to get that down around 0.1, the oddball trigger height variation is making it tough, though.
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looking good
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Current status: Everything is done on my build. Tested with a BLTouch, and will be tinkering with a piezo just to try one on it (love it on my delta). I need to work on the documentation, and a couple STL's on Thingiverse. I have a ton of photos of the build to process for the documentation.
The great news: this thing prints fantastically. Essentially zero problems with it since the build was completed.
Here's a print from last night.
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That is a great looking printer and print!
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Yes, very impressive!
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Thanks guys. Spent a couple days out of town for work. I hope to put some time in on the documentation this weekend.
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A short video of a 0.05mm layer print, at 75mm/s print speed:
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The results of the print. 0.01mm print on the left, 0.05mm layer on the right. Both at 75mm/s (no other changes aside from layer height)
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Nice
