Tag: TwoUp
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Anti-Sag Truss
My GT2 belt arrived a few days ago, but I wanted to successfully upgrade my Extruder Head before moving on to something else. This time I am planning to install Proto-Plastik’s anti-sag truss.
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X-Gantry Assembly
This is part 3 of my X-Gantry Upgrade, for the previous article follow this link. Yesterday I printed the smaller parts needed for the gantry, and today I plan to complete the X-Gantry Assembly.
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X-Gantry Upgrade
I have decided that my first goal is to replace my X-Gantry using the gantry I found on thingiverse. The X-Gantry I have chosen is from Proto-Plastik and is part of his A5-1Z upgrade to the TwoUp 3D printer. This X-Gantry seems to most closely match my goals for a replacement part, and supports an Anti-Sag…
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Bridging to nowhere
After last night’s efforts I had a pretty good cube, on five of six sides. Unfortunately, the top looks terrible, honestly more like a net than a side. Bridging is the act of printing over an open space without support structures, and there are custom settings for it in slic3r. I decided to focus on bridging next.
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3D printing. First experience? Almost…
Over twenty years ago I had my first experience with CNC and g-code. I wrote a program for a steel company to merge simple 2D g-code files, used to control plasma cutters, to optimize usage of steel plate with minimum waste. I have watched for the last few years as 3D printing finally became available to the masses.