shipment

So I got the rest of the project up to par with what stardance requires for shipping a project. Hopefully I got them all lol. So I did the wiring diagram and updated my BOM to have the shipping price included.

Repo ready…

I forgot to log the 30 minutes that it took to rewrite my readme.md but whatever. I also tried to relearn some Blender to make a somewhat decent looking render, could be better but it looks good enough for now lol. Below is me trying to make a render in blender lol.

CAD is done!!!

I have finished the CAD to the point where I am happy with it, and it will create a functional machine.

I did end up messing up the mate connectors for some of the drop in T-Nuts since I had tried to replace them after I realized I had used the wrong one. This ended up messing up the mates and I ended up just deleting the mates, they don’t move anyways…

Its lookin a little different…

So I have completed the entire gantry for the printer. I have also made a custom toolhead that is compatible with the xol toolhead carriage for the monolith gantry design. Additionally I have opted to use the Trident inverted electronics mod, on which I have mounted the electronics.

gantry gantry gantry

Most of the time was me wondering if I should go with the stock gantry design or use an awd design. I have ended up opting to use the monolith gantry for it’s compatibility with awd. I chose the monolith gantry since I don’t think I could iterate on the awd gantry design anymore than what I would be willing to compromise on. However, I have created mounts for use with the Ender 3 motors so that they are compatible with the long shafted version.

Z-Axis almost complete

I have completed the Z-Carriages that connect the bed to the motors, now I just need to mount the bed and then do the gantry…

Start work on Z-Axis

I got the frame fixed up since I was missing a bit. I had also mounted the gantry positions but I don’t want to figure out how to do an AWD corexy gantry yet, so I started work on the Z-Axis of the printer. I got the base corners onto the frame assembly, and I will be working on the other mounts next. Then I will work on mounting the bed to the stepper motors.

Project setup and Voron 2.4 Frame reconstructed