What are Delta 3D printers good for?ĭelta 3D printers are designed for fast printing speeds while maintaining the 3D print’s accuracy. These decide the printing area, print height, and motion capacity of a Delta 3D printer. The effector arms, vertical extrusions, and the stationary print surface are three significant components of any Delta 3D printer. As there is little mass to move by the effector’s arms, Delta 3D printers can accelerate and decelerate quickly and sustain high printing speeds. This unique motion system allows the build surface to remain stationary, removing the need to drive the build surface with a stepper motor. These effector arms work together and convert their angular motion to precisely position the print head in three-dimensional space. These three arms are interlinked via the print head carriage, and moving any one arm will cause the others to move too. Last edit at 12:48PM by Jacoby6000.Image: HeatSync Labs via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0Įvery Delta 3D printer has three effector arms. I'm a programmer, and so this is a little outside my comfort zone. This is my first time designing anything mechanical. I'll have an updated design later tonight, and then my explanation will probably make more sense. I'm thinking one lead screw at each corner of the printing bed, all driven by one belt that runs around all four, being driven by one motor. I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to go about that, yet. The Z axis will be driven by lead screws. I'm hoping having 2 motors per horizontal axis will prevent any binding that may happen. The x and Y axis will be belt driven, and I'll mount the motors to the frame, perpendicular to the axis they're driving (pretty standard, I think).

For mounting the extruder, I'm going to use a larger mounting plate at the gantry hub, and affixing it to that through some means. I plan on using the lightest extruder I can find, to reduce the weight of the whole gantry assembly. 2 for x, 2 for y, 1 for Z, and finally one for the extruder. This is a very early draft, but my plan is to have 6 motors total.

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