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Here's a better picture of the drive belts.Fantastic looking machine. Please post some more on this. We would love to see some video and some prints. I am seriously considering a build like this.
Can you elaborate on the belt drive and why it looks so complex?
Why do you need a self leveling bed if driven by lead screws on steppers?
Robert
There are a few advantages to my routing.
1) it keeps the steppers off the moving part of the axis. Less weight and momentum to move around.
2) there are actually 2 separate belts that connect to the y axis mounts. This provides even force on both sides of the rail so I don't get any skew on the cross bar.
I'd like to add the self leveling so that if I put different media to print on (glass sheet, tape strips, ect) I don't have to readjust the z level limit switch. It'll just do it automatically. It also will adjust for the table being out of square for whatever reason.
I'll be happy to get videos of everything once i have everything reassembled. But for now, this is the current state:
fantastic, thanks for letting me know.FYI: the CAD model imports great into Fusion 360.
Also, fun story I went to update my firmware to add the second extruder today, and arduino wouldn't connect to the board. decided to try installing an older version of arduino. Well turns out when you reinstall arduino you have to remove the older version. Would have been fine, but my backup sketches were in the arduino folder. Soooo when it uninstalled the old arduino it deleted my backup files. So I get the pleasure of re configuring every thing. Just an excuse to tune it better!