The bright minds at Metalab Vienna started playing with their Ultimaker and decided to crank some more speed out of the little machine. Well they succeeded, by writing using some new controlling software, Printrun, with modified “Sprinter” firmware on the Ultimaker. Watch these videos, you’ll be amazed.
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Hi!
Thanks for the post, but the credit should rather go to Kliment and Caru of RepRap, who both created Sprinter, and especially PrintRun.
greetings!
Simply awesome. My ultimaker will wait patiently for the official release. (combination of firmware & skeinforge profiles please)
Is it ready yet?
is it ready yet?
I made a new video which shows the insane kind of travel rates we’re looking at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJjfDkxipo
They’re around 530mm/s! The speed could ramp up much more than this, but this gave a very nice smooth motion. The part lying on the platform is just loose and doesn’t move at all. So removing vibrations from the printer will definitely add to the quality.
I think this calls for a pen plotter mod.
Are these speeds sensible for 3D printing? I would think that the extruded material itself would need time to “settle” and that it would not properly attach itself to the layers below. I was even amazed at the speed when I saw the bottle opener being printed on YouTube. Not for the machine, but for the material being printed.
The speed limit is set by how fast you can heat and move the material out the nozzle, and how long it takes to cool down.
The cool down is not as bad as it might appear. It can be sped up with a fan, and even then it’s fine so long as you don’t print on top of the new layer before it cools. I know skeinforge can add a minimum time limit for layers, so smaller parts of the print aren’t ruined.