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whosawhatsis / RepRap-Wallace

A parametric Reprap printer based loosely on the Printrbot design
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Parameterizations and some other things #1

Closed ghost closed 12 years ago

ghost commented 12 years ago

Hey man. I've been messing with your design. I tried to separate the threaded and smooth rod parameters. I also tried to base the parameters on real world measurables as much as possible.

Let me know what you think. I am going to mess with the base end a bit to try and make the linears sit a bit lower and make the build plate height auto parameterized as well.

Thanks, Steve

whosawhatsis commented 12 years ago

I like the direction of the changes you've made, but I'm seeing a lot of bugs that will take me a while to track down. For starters, change smooth_rod_size to something absurd like 18 and you'll clearly see that a bunch of stuff is thrown out of alignment. This is probably the result of changing rod_size to smooth_rod_size and threaded_rod_size in the wrong places, and in some places I had rod_size where we really need smooth_rod_size / 2 + threaded_rod_size / 2. This will all need to be fixed before I can merge, and I don't have time to track them all down today.

ghost commented 12 years ago

Alright, thanks! I am still hacking on it a bit. I will see what more I can fix/do tonight. Thanks again for posting your script. I really love parametric designs like this.

ghost commented 12 years ago

I am going to refork/merge and try again. I like the changes you have made.