New Member from MI
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:37 pm
Hi everybody, I'm a mechanical engineering student at Oakland University, I also work as a design engineer generating 3d models, manufacturing blue prints, and G-code from the 3d models for the production floor at a Detroit machine shop.
I've know about 3D printing for a while, and watched it for a while, but only in the past few months have I wanted to actually buy one. So I earmarked some of my tax return this year for one.
The primary purpose I wanted a printer for was to print up experimental gun and car parts, so I needed a printer with a large build volume. None of the Cartesian printers I looked at had the build volume I needed for my design. When I saw the video on youtube of partdaddy printing out the Defense Distributed magazine, I researched the delta configuration and came to the conclusion that it would scale very easily vertically unlike the reprap type triangle machines.
I do have two questions about scaling the Rostock up, how tall are the stock pillars and how long are the stock belts? I realize that the pillars scale directly while the belts require double the increase, so I'm just trying to figure out how much I need to order of each.
I've know about 3D printing for a while, and watched it for a while, but only in the past few months have I wanted to actually buy one. So I earmarked some of my tax return this year for one.
The primary purpose I wanted a printer for was to print up experimental gun and car parts, so I needed a printer with a large build volume. None of the Cartesian printers I looked at had the build volume I needed for my design. When I saw the video on youtube of partdaddy printing out the Defense Distributed magazine, I researched the delta configuration and came to the conclusion that it would scale very easily vertically unlike the reprap type triangle machines.
I do have two questions about scaling the Rostock up, how tall are the stock pillars and how long are the stock belts? I realize that the pillars scale directly while the belts require double the increase, so I'm just trying to figure out how much I need to order of each.