Dual Parking Extruders.. Anyone see this?

[sniffle]

As it would if they were both at the same side of the bed. The stupid bit is parking one at each end of the bed and needing two pickup mechanisms. That removes two times the extruder width from the printable area. If they were stacked at one end of the bed then the pick up does not need duplicating and you only lose one extruder width from the print area.

or you extend your x carriage by the eidth of the extruder and lose nothing

[MiniMadRyan]

or you extend your x carriage by the eidth of the extruder and lose nothing

I was thinking the same thing. It may not be ideal for our Prusa, but if someone was designing their own printer, including a little extra dead space between the bed and the frame would easily fix that issue.

I'm curious as to see the modified g code though.

[MiniMadRyan]

You can see the shields in the screenshot

Whoops, totally forgot about that!

[voodoo28]

It looks like he has it working on a prusa from maker farm..at least thats what the heat bed says..

I was thinking the same thing. It may not be ideal for our Prusa, but if someone was designing their own printer, including a little extra dead space between the bed and the frame would easily fix that issue.

I'm curious as to see the modified g code though.

[Mjolinor]

Good thread for separating the artists from the engineers.

[MiniMadRyan]

Good thread for separating the artists from the engineers.

Or in my case, nut job

It would be a fair bit slower when printing though. Still not completely sold on dual (or tri, or quad) extrusion just yet though

[voodoo28]

This is the link to all the setup files including stls and slic3r config.
http://www.3d-proto.de/index.php?p=projects#ParkingLot