I spent 2 entire hours putting the full printer cad together.

It looks so good!

Parker, how could adding just the gantries take 2 hours, you ask?

Well well well. Basically, each ball joint had to be defined as a ball joint in fusion with proper motion limits and whatnot. And fusion does NOT like this.

Fusion crashed 3 times. It errored out unrelated things for no reason more times than I rememeber. It took multiple MINUTES to load each ball joint at times. It was pure torture.

But I got it done! It’s pretty cool, I defined all the linear rails as sliders and stuff and so I can literally drag around the effectors and they move like a delta should.

One note, the bed has been lowered to 160mm instead of 180mm. This is because of some future plans and also because it just feels better in terms of proportions. It looks so nice now!

Oh, and I had to make the printer taller. We are now using 600mm rails instead of 500mm as my arm length was incorrect.

Turns out, you can’t just optimize for a 90mm gantry, because the quantum delta side needs way more travel than that. It was actually pretty funny when I first put the cad together with the short arms.

Squatted delta. I think it’s funny. Anywho, I got it all done eventually and got fusion to stop crying about it (mostly). It does take noticeably longer to open the document now and timeline changes take a significant amount of time to fully propagate through all the joints.

But, because I had to increase the arm lengths, I suddenly didn’t have enough travel for the carriages. Hence why the frame is bigger now.