Midwest RepRap Festival 2023

T3P3Tony

Its MRRF 2023 this weekend and I will be there with @Sindarius. We will be joined by @kraegar of railcore fame. I am looking forward to seeing many of your there!

Among many things I am looking forward to is showing everyone the #open5X build @brendon designed based on a Voron V0.2. If you went to RMRFF you will have seen his build there, this one is mechanically the same but I have been working on the homing and calibration routines to hopefully make it easier to home without starting from roughly the right place.

Here is a video teaser of those routines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpx4hegCngE&ab_channel=Duet3D

samlogan87

@T3P3Tony that is awesome. Did they implement their own firmware?

jens55

I have no clue what I am looking at. What the heck is going on there?

samlogan87

@jens55 5 axis printing

Sindarius

Very excited to see everyone there!

T3P3Tony

@samlogan87 nope this is running stock RRF. Hopefully i will be able to use the @JoergS5 branch soon though.

samlogan87

@T3P3Tony exciting possibilities ahead. I have been redesigning my bed arrangement to allow tilting in hope in the future firmware will allow it. I can get almost 45 degrees tilt at the moment

oliof

@samlogan87 biggest gap is a reasonable slicer to generate G-Code.

samlogan87

@oliof Yeap I agree and unfortunately for myself, it is way over my head. Will have to sit back and wait

oliof

@samlogan87 I have some hopes for kiri:moto as that already supports 4 axis CNC machines, so it wouldn't be completely new ground. Someone would need to convince Stewart that that's a good use of his time. Or write GCode with FullControl ...

samlogan87

@oliof will have to look into it. It will be interesting to see what implementations people will support, whether it be tilting bed or a full 5 axis cnc setup

T3P3Tony

@oliof I did chat to Stewart about this at ERRF last year. it is very cool that Kiri:moto already has 4 axis for CNC

I also think that the term "slicer" is probably not how we want to think about using the combination of multi axis and non planar (like what Michael Wüthrich is doing with 90 degree overhangs by printing at an angle). "toolpath generation" is a bit long winded but more accurate. In some cases the approach of slicing in layers may be fine but in many cases layers are just not appropriate.