#lasercut-delta
This repo contains a design for 3D a delta-stlye printer, largely built from laser-cut parts. The motivation being a fast-to create printer, accessible to anyone with access to a laser cutter.
Parts are glued together to form final assemblies. If you've ever built an old-school balsa aircraft, you'll be right at home
There is also a list of other parts to complete the printer and a few notes on designing for laser cut parts which I've jotted down.
All files are authored using QCad which has proven to work really well for this kind of 2D editing
The printer is a conventional delta layout. Under active development. Either toothed belt or spectra fishing line can be used
##Arms Both designs are intended to use magnetic balls glued to the effector and carriages, with bolts in aluminium tubing acting as the arms.
##HotEnd The effector is designed to work with the E3D V6 HotEnd, but others can easily be accomodated
##Printing/Cutting The printer is designed to be cut from 3mm MDF sheet. In all DFX files, later 0 is designed to be cut. All other layers should be hidden/ignored for cutting.
The largest parts currently are the base and top sheets, which have a maximum length of 335mm by 290mm, meaning that it ought to fit onto an A3 laser cutter.
##Status Currently the body parts and some bearing carriages are cut and assembled. The next step is to finish the bearing carriages and assemble the effector.