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Good day!
I would like to build a 3D printer for my small model shop.
The important part: I would like to build the printer MYSELF. I have quite a lot of mechanical facilities at home + a large CNC milling machine.
Currently I am looking for projects with a printer with dimensions of about 30x30x30cm made of aluminum or plywood (what is better?).
Are there any free projects available? If there aren't any, then I can of course buy a plan.
Thanks in advance for your help with this topic.
there are quite a lot of plans and printer types that you can build at home.
To be fair - most of them can be made from scratch.
As far a smaterials go. Plywood works well - but aluminium extrusion is preferable as it's a lot more rigid and not prone to atmospheric conditions.
Plus it's just as easy to attach things to as wood is.
Have a look through this lot:
https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q...&sort=relevant
Bear in mind that most of them will use a significant number of 3d printed parts.
Your best route would be to buy a reasonable, smalish 3d printer and then use that to make the parts for a larger and better one.
Some parts could probably be made on a cnc machine - but some will be almost impossible to mill, but easy to print.
If you went for something basic - like a delta or prusa I3 design - you can probably get away without printing anything - but you will need to design a lot of the parts yourself.
Prusa do have all their parts available for download - but again, they're designed to be 3d printed.