How to Print RepRapPro Huxley

Introduction

You can print all the plastic parts for a complete RepRapPro Huxley in another Huxley or any other model of RepRap, of course. The RepRapPro Huxley on the right has just printed the last of four trays of parts for a copy of itself.

You can also print them using virtually any other 3D printer such as a MakerBot or Stratasys or Cube. (The only 3D printers known not to work are ZCorp powder printers - their manufactured parts are too weak.)

This page tells you all you need to know in order to print a Huxley for yourself, for a friend, or for sale.

=Terminology

A tray is a collection of parts to be printed that fills the entire bed of the 3D printer. Trays are either saved whole as a single file, or are built up interactively by loading and placing the individual STL files for each component on a computer model of the tray.

How much plastic?

One complete set of polylactic acid (PLA) printed RepRapPro Huxley parts has a mass of about 260 grams. (Note that this mass does depend on your print settings: the closer the infill the denser the parts.)

260 grams of 1.75mm diameter PLA is about 87 meters of filament.

260 grams of 3mm diameter PLA is about 30 meters of filament.

ABS has a slightly lower density than PLA, so the mass will be lower for that. The volumes and filament lengths will be the same, of course.

Print a RepRap Huxley on a RepRap Huxley

A tray is one set of parts printed to fill the Huxley bed.

There are four trays to download and print:

Tray	Right mouse click and select "Save link as..."
	huxley-tray-1.stl
	huxley-tray-2.stl
	huxley-tray-3.stl
	huxley-tray-4.stl

Printing those four will give you one full set of RepRapPro Huxley printed parts.

Print a RepRap Huxley on a RepRap Mendel

This works for both the standard Mendel and the Prusa Mendel.

There are three trays to download and print. You can either get these trays as single STL files for programs such as Pronterface or as RFO files for the Java RepRap Host Software.

Tray	Single STL - Right mouse click and select "Save link as..."	RFO file - Right mouse click and select "Save link as..."
	mendel-tray-1.stl	mendel-tray-1.rfo
	mendel-tray-2.stl	mendel-tray-2.rfo
	mendel-tray-3.stl	mendel-tray-3.rfo

Printing those three will give you one full set of RepRapPro Huxley printed parts.