I must be CRAZY….hanging printer?
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The hangprinter is a novelty but I've yet to understand the reason would for dedicating a whole room to making (often small) 3d printed parts when a 2x2x2 ft cube does the same job and leaves me the rest of the room to use for other stuff, unless you have more rooms than you know what to do with. Why not suspend the cables from the inside of a slightly smaller "frame" and why not make the cables a bit more rigid and call them axes?
Sure it's interesting but gets attention as the concept is clever, I'm not sure it has much practical use. The hanging cnc by comparison is a much more compact and cheaper way to achieve a 2d router, than the gantry style conventional alternative. But isn't a delta printer a hanging unit, just with way more rigid arms and way more precise?
I'm not quite sure what the link is to the angle measuring device?
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Hangprinter kinematics are supported in RRF 1.20RC1. Nobody has reported using a Duet to control a Hangprinter yet.
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Forget the room. Hang it from a tower crane, fit a concrete extruder and print a house
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I'd say SCARA is much better suited for that - you need a lot of anchor points for a hangprinter.
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3 tower cranes?
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Nah, it's one tower crane, but 3 additional anchor points in a triangle around the house. You'd need a really large plot of free land to accommodate that.
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The hangprinter is a novelty but I've yet to understand the reason would for dedicating a whole room to making (often small) 3d printed parts when a 2x2x2 ft cube does the same job and leaves me the rest of the room to use for other stuff, unless you have more rooms than you know what to do with. Why not suspend the cables from the inside of a slightly smaller "frame" and why not make the cables a bit more rigid and call them axes?
The key here is a room doesn't actually need to be dedicated to the machine, you just need a time slot in an open room, setup, print, tear down. This system is very well set up for fast and easy setup and tear-down and easy portability, making a rigid frame defeats all that. Most of the images I see are for very temporary installations, like two day shows and such. Most of the parts I've seen made with Hangprinter well exceed what you can build in a 2ft frame.
I don't think it's for everyone and I don't think the designer ever tried to claim it was.
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The hangprinter is a novelty but I've yet to understand the reason would for dedicating a whole room to making (often small) 3d printed parts when a 2x2x2 ft cube does the same job and leaves me the rest of the room to use for other stuff, unless you have more rooms than you know what to do with. Why not suspend the cables from the inside of a slightly smaller "frame" and why not make the cables a bit more rigid and call them axes?
Sure it's interesting but gets attention as the concept is clever, I'm not sure it has much practical use. The hanging cnc by comparison is a much more compact and cheaper way to achieve a 2d router, than the gantry style conventional alternative. But isn't a delta printer a hanging unit, just with way more rigid arms and way more precise?
I'm not quite sure what the link is to the angle measuring device?
I was thinking for legitimate furniture and if you did it right, and had fixed anchor points and a highly repeatable locating system that you could print things very quickly in a room, disassemble it so it wasn't a complete waste of a room, but still focused, and end up saving a fortune over the life of the home…or apartment if it isn't furnished.
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Hangprinter kinematics are supported in RRF 1.20RC1. Nobody has reported using a Duet to control a Hangprinter yet.
I was unaware of that…hmmmm I'm going to experiment with this then. I understand the scepticism of the practicality. Personally, I expect >90% chance of complete failure. If the firmware already supports it...I'm going to buy a few new duets
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The hangprinter is a novelty but I've yet to understand the reason would for dedicating a whole room to making (often small) 3d printed parts when a 2x2x2 ft cube does the same job and leaves me the rest of the room to use for other stuff, unless you have more rooms than you know what to do with. Why not suspend the cables from the inside of a slightly smaller "frame" and why not make the cables a bit more rigid and call them axes?
The key here is a room doesn't actually need to be dedicated to the machine, you just need a time slot in an open room, setup, print, tear down. This system is very well set up for fast and easy setup and tear-down and easy portability, making a rigid frame defeats all that. Most of the images I see are for very temporary installations, like two day shows and such. Most of the parts I've seen made with Hangprinter well exceed what you can build in a 2ft frame.
I don't think it's for everyone and I don't think the designer ever tried to claim it was.
Someone that sees this the way I do!
Hallelujah!I simply meant if one could afford a more permanent/long term solution…one might be able to improve the quality or speed of the system.
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One tiny flaw that I see is that you mention "printing furniture" and "quickly" in the same sentence. I think you'll find that a trip to IKEA would be both quicker and cheaper (unless you have free source for several kms of filament).
