4 Axis DIY 3D Printer Unlike Anything You’ve Seen
4 Axis DIY 3D Printer Unlike Anything You’ve Seen
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23129803
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non planar slicing is back? (I've yet to watch the video)
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2:54 for some bonkers footage
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That is absolutely awesome!
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Oh wow, that,s freaking amazing.
If the Slicer works well, I wonder if/when we'll get a core r theta voron.
That could be my next printer.
Btw I assume this is patented to hell, but Voron wouldn't need to care right? As they don't intend to profit?
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The mad lad GNU V3'd and fully open-sourced it
https://github.com/jyjblrd/4-Axis-Polar-3D-Printer
And his slicer here
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If the Slicer works well
I think this would be the biggest issue.
I had a bit of experience with 5 axis machining and the programming of it is far from trivial.
3 axis is really easy to automate, the paths are quite straightforward, especially for 3D printing when you go layers by layers.
As soon as you add a 4th axis nothing is straightforward anymore. You have a high probability of collision between the extruder and the workpiece and now instead of having a single mathematical solution on how to go from point A to point B you have multiples options and no "right" option, it all depends on how the machine is built and the shape of the part.
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Yup. This is one area where machining and machine movement is still an art. It can be scienced but it's expensive to model a machine that well and CAM software still needs a lot of handholding beyond 3ax moves. That will eventually change, I expect someone will slap some 'AI' into CAM. I wonder, however, if it won't actually require something close to general AI for real world utility.
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Not necessarily the case, but I'm sure some slight mods would be all that's needed.
Edit: hardware is GNU https://github.com/jyjblrd/4-Axis-Polar-3D-Printer/blob/main/Licence
As for the software, please pile on to this issue: https://github.com/jyjblrd/Radial_Non_Planar_Slicer/issues/1
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