HyperCube BlueBeast

Last crawled date: 4 years, 3 months ago

Finally finished to work on my first designed 3D printer... As a base, I used a nice design of HyperCube 3D printer by Tech2C. In general- its something between HyperCube and HyperCube Evolution in therms of printed volume size: L300xW200xH250 mm.
Design considerations:
Safety: enclosed printer with hidden electrical and heated elements as much as possible, to make it inaccessible to little curious fingers of my children to touch accidentally something that shouldn't be touched
Cost effective: using cheap still reliable parts to reduce total cost to fit the budget
To maximize building volume with standard parts, with relatively small external dimensions to place the printer during operation on limited-size table, and to storage it while not in use.
To avoid two-sided heated bed support like big volume beds (like in HyperCube Evolution)
In the end to get simple and reliable 3D printer that easy to use without intense maintenance
Aesthetic design
In order to build the printer I have designed 3D model in Autodesk Inventor software. In following link you can find native Inventor assembly, and STEP files for enclosed and a regular version of the printer.https://grabcad.com/library/hypercube-bluebeast-3d-printer-1
Why I'm referring to another site? Because in GrabCAD site you can view the 3D model in your browser without downloading, and even make measurements- what you can't do here.
Main parameters :
CoreXY kinematic system
Printing area 200x300x250mm
Silicon 220v heater for super fast preheating of printing bed
Enclosed printer with acrylic 3mm panels
Enclosed ventilated electronics chamber at the bottom
LED strips for lighting of the printing area, with switch button
Based on Arduino Mega with Ramps 1.4
Frame made of aluminum 20x20mm profiles
Bowden extruder
External USB connection for updating firmware
External dimensions L540xW400xH500 mm
External Spool Holder Folding
If you want to build a DIY 3D printer by your own, you probable may find some useful solutions from that model - same manner I found inspiration from other creative people :)
Have a nice day :)
P.S. Sorry guys not publishing all STL files for now, don't sure anyone need it (and don't have spare time to spend on it right now...)
One day after uploading... New to Thingiverse from side of uploader, and couldn't imagine that this site is so unfriendly and have so many glitches ... This strange restrictions of size of photos ratio and rotating/squishing/deforming/just not appear for unknown reason pictures a little bit annoying :) But, I believe that there is a solution for everything, and meanwhile I added all original pictures to the thing for downloading as ZIP format. Maybe one day after, I will resize all pictures for normal display, but for now just deleted all deformed or damaged photos from the display. :) In addition, downloaded my thing to see how it looks like for others- and in the compressed files was a total mess - things that not even related to my projects, small thumbnail pictures (why ?!!?!) and other odd stuff that generated by Thingiverse randomly- funny but not professional . But who I am to complain :) Hope they will fix it ;)