Mendel with increased printing height by Fons

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Mendel Angle project
I started this project because I wanted to increase the printing height of my Mendel Legacy printer
I wanted to change as little parts as possible, that's why I increased the angle of the down corners of the side triangles
I did not change the Z motor mounds
In this new set up it is neccessary to change the 4 down vertexes and the two top vertexes
Because of the tilting of the two threaded rods the Y motor mount which is fixed on this rods has to be changed as well
Futher ther are 4 longer threaded rods required.
Starting point where the scad files from Josef Pra
// josefprusa@me.com
// prusadjs.cz
// http://www.reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_Mendel
// http://github.com/prusajr/PrusaMendel
which are available from the RepRapPro organisation
With file mendel_angel_project.scad I wanted to see the effect of a change in angle and increase in height
In this scad file you can change the angle and the height increase
I supplied 2 STL files
mendel angle project_60 - gives the original Mendel Legacy situation
mendel angle project_68 - gives the angle of 68 degr and additional height of 65 I took for my printer
pls note for file mendel_angel_project.scad to work properly all files in the Zip file have to be in the same directory as mendel_angel_project.scad
With netfabb Basic (STL viewer) it is possible to get the length of the threaded rods in that situation
I also give the STL files of the items that have to be changed to go to the new situation