Shaft Driven Extruder

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Shaft driven Extruder

Release status: Concept

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Description
X-axis Shaft driven Extruder
License
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Please note this is still being developed and I will add extra information soon

Rough Example of a Spline Extruder

Pros and Cons

Design Advantage Disadvantages
NO Stepper Motor on Extruder
  • Lower Weight
  • Lower Inertia experienced on extruder
  • Faster move speeds
  • Better Accuracy
Where does the stepper go? (hahaha)
Stepper Motor Placed on Right of X-axis
  • Balances Frame weight out
  • Possible better distribution of wear on threads of z axis (hard to verify this claim)
Shaft Drive
  • Enables multiple heads to be driven by the same stepper motor
  • Maintains high degree of control at extruder
Might get quickly bogged down if too many heads

The Premise about this is to reduce the amount of weight on the extruder, a previous approach was to use Bowden cable extruders however some of the claims are that it is unresponsive and elastic in comparison to a traditional extruder. As such by having a shaft driven extruder you wold not have the same problems