Wade's Geared Extruder Wade's Geared Extruder Release status: Working This work is based on Adrian's Geared Nema 14 extruder (Adrian's Geared Extruder) design, and includes many concepts lifted from Nophead's extruder (Nophead's Extruder Tweaks) research. This extruder was designed for the RepRap Sells Mendel (but will work with about any 3D printer, if with adaptors) and is robust, provides a strong force to extrude, is cheap and DIY. It is an alternative to the Geared Nema17 Extruder Driver and has the following advantages: no need to buy/use expensive metal gears; no need to do two precision flats on motor shaft; no need to glue the PTFE barrel; Other advantages over other extruders are: extrude/print at high speed; good for use with a low torque/cheap Nema 17 motor ; (Needs verification) no need to use expensive and complex tools - just one hand drill, a file and a M4 or M5 tap; no need to make splines on motor shaft; How to get it Mechanical Construction Materials Printed Parts Non-Printed Parts 3D CAD Files
Design Drawings This detailed section shows LUMENHAUS’s many sliding layers, from the outside in. All layers operate completely independently of each other, permitting multiple potential combinations according to energy efficiency and homeowner mood. 1. Shutter Shade, part of the Eclipsis System. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Prusa Mendel Assembly Prusa Mendel Documentation Before assembling a Prusa Mendel, make sure you have all the parts necessary. For the bill of materials, see Prusa Mendel. For the visually oriented, have a look at this photo gallery of an ongoing Prusa Mendel build. You may also want to watch the complete video series for assembling a Prusa 2 How_to_build_Prusa_2. Notes: Heating the flat side of a bushing with a hair dryer or heat gun before snapping onto the smooth bar can keep it from snapping. Frame Triangles This step takes about 15 minutes per triangle, for a total of 30 minutes. There is a triangle on each side of the Prusa RepRap. Parts Required (per triangle) 2 RP footed frame vertices 1 RP frame vertex (non-footed) 1 RP bar clamp 3 370mm M8 threaded rods 14 M8 nuts 14 M8 washers (Optional but recommended) A piece of threaded rod or wood or any other material with precisely 290mm length. Front Threaded Rods This step takes about 30 minutes. Parts Required 2 assembled frame vertex triangles 2 RP bar clamps
Mendel assembly data sheet The "Mendel assembly data sheet" contains all of the critical assembly data you need for mechanical assembly. You can find assembly data quickly, and also upload improvements when you find them - specifically information on cheaper suppliers. Current tabs on the data sheet include: BOM (Bill of materials) Lengths Notes Costing Specifications Download The following download is in Open Office format: Mendel-m4-assembly-data-sheet.ods If you are prepared to share any improvements you find along the way please check out the following section. Upload If you are prepared to share any improvements you find along the way please register with the wiki now: there is a spam-prevention cooling period after registration. Please do not create additional spreadsheets, simply update to the existing data sheet. When updating the spreadsheet, please remember that this is a public document and ensure that your additions are: To upload your new data sheet onto this wiki, click here.
Heated bed MK3 My first heated bed worked OK but it was slow to warm up and hard to remove objects. The second one was only ever intended for experimenting with vacuums and magnets but I ended up printing most of my Mendel on it. It worked well but limits the build area. I have now replaced it with a full size version, using the lessons learned from the first two. The first bed was the same size as HydraRaptor's table (200 × 200mm) but the build area is only about 150 × 150mm. The other innovations were to make it easier to build. They are also lower profile of course. The thermocouple is mounted with a clamp made from PTFE. Since this bed has a steel plate on top none of the holes need to be blind. On my previous magnetic bed I placed the magnets in blind holes that were almost all the way through. This is the top side. After a suggestion by Enrique that wool was a good high temperature insulator my friend Steve gave me some carpet underlay made from wool.
Testing a Future Building's Energy Efficiency - Software, Energy Efficiency, Sustainability, Technology Simulating and analyzing the daylighting aspects of a buildings design are just two of Ecotect's capabilities. Simulating and analyzing the daylighting aspects of a buildings design are just two of Ecotect's capabilities. The statistics have been quoted time and time again since they were first released by the U.S. A number of energy-modeling software packages on the market offer various tools to forecast a building’s energy use and predict its performance. Energy-modeling software runs the gamut, from quick-and-dirty applications to specialized, data-driven platforms that only an engineer can love, which makes finding the right combination of analysis tools for a given project tricky. Free and Fast EQUEST is an energy simulation tool available for free download (doe2.com/equest). The U.S. Ecotect, from Autodesk, can also model a building's effects on the surrounding environment. Ecotect, from Autodesk, can also model a building's effects on the surrounding environment. Good Graphics
Mendel Buyers Guide edit is restricted to the sysop group (set from the "protect" tab)move is restricted to the sysop group (set from the "protect" tab) Entries on this page are in no way an endorsement of quality of goods or service. Below is simply a list of suppliers. Do your research by Googling <company_name RepRap forum> before you buy. This will usually find other reprappers' experience with a given company on our forums. See here for details of how to get included on this page. RepRap is open-source hardware, so there is not a single place to buy it but rather many options. Vendors To remain fair, all vendors that sell here are up for review. If you get bad service, say so on the forums and help other reprappers. Community There are several subforums in the RepRap Marketplace and Job Shop, where people who have sets of RepRap parts for sale can advertise the fact and others can post requests to buy. Also take a look at fellow RepRap developers selling printed parts on the wiki. Project specific parts
Extruder/Mendel edit is restricted to the autoconfirmed group (set from the "protect" tab)move is restricted to the autoconfirmed group (set from the "protect" tab) This page describes the standard extruder for RepRap Mendel. There are alternatives Wade's Geared Extruder, Geared Nema17 Extruder Driver and Geared Nema17 Extruder that you may care to look at too. NOTE: Geared_Nema17_Extruder is a well tested extruder by now, it have more advantages like being easy to build with common tools and it's more powerful. Follow to Geared_Nema17_Extruder to see videos of it working, pictures from users and all the information to build and use it. Mendel uses a thermoplast extruder based on RepRap's Thermoplast Extruder Version 2.0 (please note in particular how to make the motor grip the filament as smooth motor shafts will not grip the filament sufficiently, without modification). Assembly qty: 1 Thermal-barrier and nozzle These are the only parts of RepRap that need to be machined. Start by facing off the ends.
Reprap-Fab Herzlich Willkommen Gast! Möchten Sie sich anmelden? Oder wollen Sie ein Kundenkonto eröffnen? Wer nicht weis worum es hier geht, sollte mal auf der Seite www.reprap.org gucken gehen. Das deutsche Forum ist eine gute Informationsquelle und Fragen werden dort gerne beantwortet. Alle hier verkauften Kunststoffteile sind auf einem Reprap Mendel gedruckt worden. Ich stelle langsam auf ABS natur um. Einfach der Fairness halber.
Exquisite Automated Build Platform This page is a development stub. Please enhance this page by adding information, cad files, nice big images, and well structured data! These are good resources for creating wiki pages. Very Messy Example and Columbus --Sebastien Bailard 07:23, 10 September 2010 (UTC) i have had some breakthroughs in materials for abp, and will be posting more this weekend, hopefully a working abp for mendel. i have to say it is a lot simpler than i had imagined it would be.. just the right combination of chemicals, materials and heating. ** 1/4/2012 Exquisite Automated Build Platform Release status: unknown One wiki editor has suggested renaming this page to conveyor belt build platform. this is an attempt to make an automatic build platform for Mendel. theory of operationFile:AbpTheoryOfOperation.doc (beta, not complete yet) i will be uploading picture of my unit, and diagrams and how to make and machine and possibly print parts for it. note. my unit does not yet work. it does not yet have safety features.
Easy 3D Printer Toolchain « printthat The software that controls open source 3d printers is still in a state of flux. It can be difficult to navigate your way through all the options to try to put together a toolchain that will do what it is supposed to do. I know, I’ve been doing just that for a while now. Eventually I figured that I was only really helping myself because I was piling one patch onto another trying to make things work in my specific situation…and it wasn’t working all that well. So, I started over. The primary factor in deciding what toolchain to put together is the operating system your computer runs on. From that point forward all you have to do is download Java, which is free, and Python, which is free, and Arduino, which is free, and in this case I’ve choosen ReplicatorG (best and best supported), which is also free. But don’t worry. *I am sort of assuming you’re using RAMPS and Windows, but I can’t test this process with anything else at the moment. Like this: Like Loading...
Adrian's Geared Extruder Adrian's Geared Extruder Release status: Working Introduction This page describes the standard extruder for RepRap Mendel. Equally, lots of people have success with Wade's Geared Extruder too which you may care to take a look at. This extruder is designed to work with a supply of 3mm diameter plastic feedstock. I wanted to design a single extruder driver that could Be bolted to the X carriage of Mendel and run as a normal extruder, Be mounted somewhere at the side and drive a Bowden extruder (as invented by eD and developed by Erik), and Be mounted somewhere at the side and drive a Bowden paste extruder, as outlined here. Features What you need This describes what you need to build an extruder to mount on Mendel. See this page for a better nozzle design for this device. The design files (AoI, STLs, and the complete RFO for immediate reprapping) are in the repository here. Here is a complete list of all the parts and materials. Putting it together The connector The nozzle The gear drive Back view.
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Prusa Mendel Build Manual/fr Documentation de la Prusa Mendel Acknowledgment/Remerciements The translation of the Prusa Mendel Assembly documentation was mostly made by Laurent [1], and other people, during the FabLab Bootcamp at Ping [2] Un grand bravo à Laurent [3] et aux autres qui ont traduit en français la documentation de l'assemblage de la Prusa durant le FabLab Bootcamp à Ping [4], ceci devrait contribuer à faciliter la diffusion de ce type de RepRap dans la francophonie :) Assemblage Pour découvrir visuellement le processus de fabrication d'une Mendel Prusa, allez faire un tour sur l'album photo [[5]] Un guide [6] est aussi disponible, qui détaille chacune des étapes ci-dessous, avec des illustrations: Assembler les triangles de l'armature (2x) Notes: Un sèche-cheveux (ou équivalent) peut servir à réchauffer le côté plat d'une bague afin de l'assouplir afin qu'elle n'éclate pas lorsqu'on la clippe sur une barre. Cette partie prend 15 minutes par triangle à assembler, pour un total de 30 minutes. 1 pince de tige RP