Gene, Turns out that printing with a heavy machine like a mill presents some problems, as the inertia is orders of magnitude higher than on 3D printers.
3D printers are designed to have as low an inertia as possible to simplify the filament control dynamics. With a larger/heavier machine those control dynamics get pretty complex as I understand it. Plus, your prints would take an eternity. N. Christopher Perry > On May 16, 2017, at 9:27 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > And the next logical question from me is: > > Has anyone put a printhead on a std moving table milling machine, and > used it to do some 3d additive printing? I am "out of room" for more > machines, and that seems like a possible to do project. Doing it well > would remain to be seen. > > The printhead seems like the lessor of two aspects, as a heated bed that > big seems to be the bigger problem. > > Discussion? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
