The "I've done this amazing thing and put a lot of work into it" paired with "the version of final cut expires today so I'm cramming this video out" is such a relatable mood
Not sure if CapCut runs on that system but IMO because your style of video doesn't need anything advanced (like animated meme effects or high quality color key) it should do everything else.
@@alphaforce6998Anyone can design something but engineers with a traditional education can use physics knowledge to optimize a system rather than making a random guess on the design. An engineer for instance can calculate the maximum deflection of a bridge with a certain material and a certain load, to validate the design before building it, while any person could lay some planks across a river and hope for the best.
@@joshsymonds2615 Did you ask AI for help with your response? Name some engineers who accomplished anything of note within the last 30 years; then do the same with computer programmers. You can ask AI for help with that...oh wait, you'd ask AI, the work of a computer programmer. Looks like your off to a bad start.
@@SnitchyCat Yet people have managed to get by with "try it and it just works" for most of time. The claim is not that engineering is useless, but that it is overhyped as a profession. It's like you don't need a degree in thermodynamics to be an effective chef...just like anyone can build a perfectly fine thing without a degree in engineering. Formal engineering is almost like a problem looking for a solution.
This is awesome to see, and honestly one of the first 4 axis 3D printers that makes sense to me and doesn't feel like a toolhead slapped on a robot arm.
I resent that as someone with a tool head slapped on a robot arm lol. I'd actually like vertical rotation on my robot arm (Rotric Dexarm) . Actually it would be good with vertical and horizontal rotation. What he's done here is amazing.
I feel like this dude is a time traveler, I mean he single handedly builds an insane next gen 3D printer for a less than $400 and gives it to the community to develop further. mind = blown Awesome! Just Awesome!!
@@RobinCernyMitSuffix My issue is the OP in the video is presenting it like it's his own discovery/invention...and the comments are full of ignorant simps who think he's some kind of genius for copying a longstanding CNC machine design and replacing the spindle with a plasti-jizz squirter.
"Just kidding I did it" I'm getting a CompSci masters and I don't even know where to fucking start with this dude You are simply assembled alternatively
THIS is what non-planar slicing should be, with this design, you don't even need to use the rotational axis if you want to just run regular gcode, but the option is there to do non-planar stuff as well. Really well thought out and an excellent design.
Genious! The kinematics are way less complex/finicky than previous multi axis printers i have seen, this has a much higher chance of becoming more common.
Brilliant! As a mechanical engineer I see so much value in you tackling the slicing/software side, that's the real optimization problem now that you have the concept hardware working. That said, let me know if you are looking for a collaborator!
Holy crap this is cool. You didn't just build the machine, but you also did the math. I love it! I'm only 22 seconds in and can already see that this is going to make an impact on the 3D print community. That is, unless Stratasys is going to hunt you down saying your design looks like one of their nonsense patents. I hope this makes it out into the wild! I love it!
I see it as two great achievements: the whole slicing for anything other than the regular prints was unsolved, and he made the software for it and also the built itself, of course. Thanks for going open-source, btw. 🙏
actually I have a patent on using various axis of movement (such as linear and rotational, though this is a non-exhaustive list) in order to move a toolhead to various points in space (dubbed "locations") with electrical, hydraulic, manual, and or pnuematic actuation. (also non-exhaustive) This also infringes on a patent of mine with regards to using a thin flexible strip of material (dubbed a "belt") to confer rotational and/or linear motion across a distance.
Unironically, this machine is beautiful. This may be a dumb suggestion, but what if you replaced the bed's single rotating motor with a similar mechanism to how the extruder arm and head operates? Having two motors spin the print bed, but then when they rotate in opposite directions, they move the print bed in a linear motion perpendicular to the axis the print arm moves. Like some kind of hybrid rotating bedslinger. The bed slinging would ONLY be used to prevent issues with singularities, but beyond that, idk if it'd even be worth it.
This is a great idea, and I hope it receives more attention. If the R axis of the tool head was perpendicular to the R axis of the bed, you'd actually have an X,Y,Z, along with an A and B axis. No more dead zone. My idea was to allow for the print bed to be a cylinder, which would be tricky, but would also allow for some other use cases, and excellently strong parts since your layer lines can be along the length of the part and never overlap.
Print speed will always be limited when using a moving-bed design, since you have to accommodate the tendency of the part's inertia to tear it off the bed. Axial beds reduce the forces somewhat, but are still fairly restrictive. What about, instead of sliding the bed, we put the main print arm on its own vertical axis? This would allow the print head to sweep through the center of the bed axis, and the combined movements could be optimized for maximum acceleration along both axis independently in order to maximize total traversal speed. IMO the real value here isn't in reducing support material, but in enabling more structurally useful layer alignment. So maybe just intentionally printing with strong supports to promote bed adhesion and prevent slip/layer shift would also be adequate.
@@haphazard1342 I was going to write a comment, but I quickly realized that I had no idea what I was talking about. So instead, I'll just include my thought process as to why I thought I would put the extra axis on the bed instead of the gantry. In my mind, adding an exra axis to the already complicated gantry setup would probably reduce more deflection than adding that same axis to the bed instead. Like, both axis, axes? on the printer now can suport the print head easily because they're perpendicualr to both the axis they're moving along, and also their axis of rotation. But if you added an x-axis to the bottom of the gantry so it could slide back and forth, all the weight of the printer head would be exerting a moment in line? parallel? in the direction of rotation along the x-axis. Imagine cutting a CNC router gantry in half, it'd tip over without some serious extra support on the remaining side. Meanwhile a slinger axis put on the bed wouldn't suffer from that issue. idfk where I'm going with this. Just my thoughts.
When path planning for slicing the gcode, I wonder if this would create too many degrees of freedom and thus become an unsolvable problem from the inverse kinematics perspective.
@@timothysands5537 Hmm, maybe. There would be 1 x-axis and 1 z-rotation for the bed, plus 1 y-axis, 1 z-axis, and 1 x-rotation for the gantry. Not saying my idea is good or feasible, but you could probably limit the software to being only able to use slinger and bed rotation separately. Like, if it wanted to rotate the bed, it'd have to go back to zero or something. Though that brings another issue, depending on the calibration, it might be extremely difficult to line up the center of the bed if it's on a slinger with the print head on the gantry. As the machine sits right now, the center of the bed is in-line with the print head, and it CAN'T misalign, ust due to how it's built. But with a bedslinger option, it could. Then you'd potentially have a MASSIVE distortion issue
Wow, the fact that you made a general non-planar slicer is incredible! I haven't seen anything like that outside of specific research settings. The simplicity of the kinematics is amazing, too!
what I think will be the biggest benefit of this type of printing is the axis-agnostic uniform strength of your print. If you print your object like you're winding up a ball of yarn, you won't have the weakness that traditional prints have in the Z-axis when layers separate.
It will actually make some geometries uniformly weak, that's kind of the issue I was noticing. Look at the model of the tree that was printed where every branch is being made from small stacked layers whereas if it was printed traditionally you'd need supports but there would be larger cross-sections. Same goes with the propeller.. it will print well without supports which is impressive but the blades will be very weak.
@@neuschf yes. Even if you still end up with some layers, if you can align the layers along the part axis as closely as possible then it's still a major improvement since each layer has more surface area for bonding.
Worked 5 year in profesionnal video editing. By far my favorite software. The optimisation for realtime playback of crazy high resolution is not as automatic as in finalcut pro with prores, but after a bit of tweeking you can get way better performance. With colorgrading, vfx and sfx integrated, its amazing.
Incredibly cool! Amazing that you actually already did what's arguably the hard part, the slicing. It's also awesome how simple your printer design really is. It looks like this would have a similar BOM cost to a typical bed slinger. This could genuinely bring non-planar and 4 axis printing forward!
What a busy bee. 1 year no videos at all - and then such a banger. Your work payed off. This is a very nice approach to 3D printing. When it works for CNC why not for printers, too.
Everyone is stoked about the cool non-planer stuff, but I say congratulations on graduating! Looks like you wasted your time at Cambridge a lot more productively than I did, lol.
I WAS CURRENTLY PLANNING ON BUILDING A A POLAR PRINTER AND RUNNING IT ON MY DUET 2 WIFI….! AND THEN YOUR VIDEO POPS UP!!! JOSH…..THIS HAS MADE ME SO HAPPY!!!
I think that a solution for the singularity problem would be allowing the printing head to travel a bit beyond the center of a bed so the central zone could be filled with almost regular cartesian movements, although the code itself may be a bit sophisticated for this and would not completely eliminate structural weakness in the region.
BRO I don't even know what to say other than I can't wait to see you open source this. At first I was thinking, "Yeah, that's a cool design and all but demos like this don't mean much without... wait, what?!" Seriously, hats off to you man.
Very cool! I've been experimenting with remote, pneumatic cooling in a VERY SIMILAR way to cut as much weight as possible off of the gantry for high speed operations, but this is on a whole other level!!!
Dudes like this make me feel insecure that I will ever feel like an engineer. How the hell does one do this while still not having finished university. Being a computer scientist, understanding so much software, maths, mechanics etc and having the time to develop a new way of 3d printing... Im feeling so bad about myself right now just because of how amazing this whole thing is. What the hell... Just wow. How does one even learn all of this. i was expecting a dude maybe 35+ and you are just there at probably under 25 doing all of this. I would stumble as soon as it gets to any kind of calculations and here you are doing kinematic stuff, mechancal stuff, software stuff, firmware stuff, literally I have no idea how I can turn firmware commands into G-code and develop a new way for slicing... I... know...nothing
Damn...... this, you, all of it is insane! I was wondering when this one person (you) finally achieves something like this. I compiled an early non-planar Slicer by myself with the hope to achieve insane prints but ended up with insane amounts of nerve taking slicer issues. XD. You are the light of new printers, the savior of ........ okay being realistic here, how long some BS Company gives you a vast load of money and we will never be able to replicate this...... WILD you open sourced it. LEGEND. YOU ARE AWESOME!
This man open sourced! Graduated! And provided context to something! THANK YOU! continue to go down this path of hobby projects, using trials 😂, and making your hobby something to be fun! Don't let it become a "Job" you have to do! Really thanks I am so tempted to try to make this!
Super Awesome! Love that the only reason I get to see this is that your free trial was running out. Nathan Builds Robots uses a counter rotating mass for his polar bed or something like that. Having melted many fan ducts, PC Carbon Fiber filament can be printed on an i3 style printer. It is great for temperature resistance and easy to print because the fiber breaks up the long polymer chains and severely reduces warping. All you need is new nozzle and a cardboard box to put over the printer. ABS+ from eSun is also an option but not as temperature resistant as PC CF. Also excited to see the ceramic version.
Amazing printer, and the fact you designed a competent slicer is breathtaking! Also love seeing RRF out in the wild, it's an absolute treasure box of functionality 🙏 (Tried them all, RRF is hands down my favorite, wish that more people gave it a shot)
Oh my god.... hahaha. My first thought was, "that looks so awesome!". Second thought was, "Although, slicing for non-planar printers is the true challenge." You promptly addressed that right away! This is extremely exciting!
For years, 3d printer companies have been coasting along. Bambu has taken the market by storm and may have uncontrolled bowel movements after seeing this. Whoever gets this design to mass market first will likely iwn the 3d printing market. Impressive work, and thank you for making it open source!
i thought about saying :"i wished i have had seen this earlier!" but this project is so fresh out of the oven, i would have needed to be precognicient. Great design. I hope someone get's done an even cheaper build of this configuration for those people with budgetary restrictions. This is truly marvellous. Additive machining in a rotational geometry and the slicer optimizing it on top. that is next level!
The software is what amazes me the most, and has implications beyond just printing unusual geometrys without supports. It's possible to print parts with crossed layer lines in three dimensions, entirely bypassing their typical weaknesses. For example; that propeller could have had a basic internal skeleton built up as shown, then built out further with long paths across it's length with other alternating layers sorta wrapping it together in the way that carbon fiber layups are usually constructed to prevent there being any direct cleavage paths. With strong tensile elements added inline to the melt, along with a mechanism for severing them when the nozzle has completed a layer and needs to be repositioned, a 3D printed part would have the potential to be much stronger than a conventionally molded one. I'm immediately subscribed
For all those who are interested in non-planar slicing the developer of my preferred slicer IceSL silently released an update a couple of weeks ago which integrated non-planar slicing. This project is really cool and the simplicity of the mechanics is awesome, subbed.
There's not just one insanely clever thing here, there's like ten. And the fact that you have to combine mechanical design with electronic and computer programming. The head rotation and arm projection kinematics amazing. Yes this was anticipated by CoreXY kinematics but this is truly innovative still. I know conical slicers have been done before but had to be adapted because this is certainly not a conical printer. Even the incidental little rubber band cradle trick to silence the air pump. Simply a tour de force.
This looks like a really fantastically engineered and almost entirely practical design (I’d worry a bit about the tubes feeding the tool head clipping the work piece). I hope you get to work on this further!
This is amazing! I was going to subscribe just for the current project, but when I heard you are working on a ceramic printer as well, I couldn't click, "Subscribe" fast enough. Keep up the great work!
Aerospace software engineering lecturer here... young man decide on a licence for your code ASAP. I would very much like to use this: A: In the classroom And B: As an avenue for student dissertation projects. I can do neither via my University's policies till there's a licence attached to the repo 😅
I had started on working on this exact idea a month ago, I knew someone would beat me to it. I even shared the idea with coworkers to see if anyone would be interested to help out in building a prototype. Congrats to you!
The insane work to make this accessable is awesome. You talked about other solutions just using robot arms or an existing 4 axis cnc, would have saved you a ton of time but what you've designed could be turned into a real product under $1000 if you can make a user friendly slicer. I love the homing and bed leveling systems. Hopefully cooling can be simpler.
You're actually a genius, this is incredibly impressive. You're able to apply simple solutions in out of the box ways to solve complex problems. Amazing.
The potential of fdm printers to print without specific layers is something truly powerful. Thank you for pushing the boundaries of innovation forward with your ideas
Great work man, don't give up on this! My hobby became my career many years ago, watching your video reminded me of some of my internal dialog way back when..
It's so great!!! I'd been working in AM industry for developing 3d printing for over 7 years before I moved to Canada last year. and I've been thinking that it will solve a looot of realistic problems happening in real industries if there is a 3d printer that can slice the models into concentric cylinderic layers. SOOOOOOOOOO Glad to see this happening. And I also have some more other idea to share.
i had this idea after seeing that metal 3d printer guys video where he did something similar. glad to see you did this, looks great, very natural, like it should have been this way from the start.
what about a double-y rotating platform with one being offset from the other? Either a cam, or perhaps a compound rotation, allowing the bed to make parabolic arcs (to avoid the "dead zone" in the middle)? Congrats on graduating, and thanks for sharing your work. Very interesting, indeed!
Well done :) thanks for putting in the effort to share the progress with us, it's truly motivating and also exciting to learn how such an obscure printer can be supported in software.
Absolutely sick! I have a couple of ideas tho: A) just add a blower fan on the Z axis gantry pointing at the rough area where the nozzle spends most of its time. B) it might be interesting to see if a 90deg heat block makes sense in this config, since it would let you get the angle as close as possible to horizontal. I believe some upside down printer used it without any weird issues super excited to see where both the printer and slicer go!
Okay i love this design, this is one of the best ideas i have see yet. and i agree how have you not heart about Reprap, its where it all began 😀 the amount of time i spent on that forum is just insane 😅
Uh, this is FREAKING AWESOME. One more thing that might be worthy of investigation is printing on a cylinder. Zeroing on the cylinder might be difficult, but that would add another layer of awesome to this. It would also eliminate the dead zone. It would also make for very strong prints since the layer lines could be printed at angles along the shaft and opposing every layer, almost like pultrusion. To deal with the dead zone you might try to transfer straight across the center and then switch the direction when you reach the opposite perimeter. I suppose you'd need to lift in the middle, but that shouldn't be too bad. This kind of thing happens regularly in cartesian printing. If you need something printed I'd love to help you out, sadly shipping from me would be silly. I'm sure someone else will offer you printer time. I can help you design things if you give me an assignment though.
This is next level stuff. Not only does it solve a major issue with traditional printing (overhangs) but it also is just mesmerizing to watch. Looks like the ender 3 s1 might be getting a new life
Fantastic work, amazing. Quick question... might the central axis point issue be helped by printing objects off center - avoiding the problem axis where possible? Thanks again and congratulations all around!
My Dad would've loved to see this dude, he was a huge open source & 3d printing nerd. And I can relate to the free trial 🤣 Resolve is absolutely worth the pivot learning curve imo, it can do 3 program's worth of work (premiere/fcp, coloring software, protools/audio nle).
This man is single-handedly pushing the 3DP community forward.
EDIT: And he open sources it, what a legend.
Absolutely amazing work. Well done lad!
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YAY to Open Source.
AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
Looking into the reprap project. Basically the reason why we are where we are with 3d printing
The "I've done this amazing thing and put a lot of work into it" paired with "the version of final cut expires today so I'm cramming this video out" is such a relatable mood
So if it hadn't expired, who knows how the project might have been forgotten?! 🤔
Thanks Apple, I guess… I'm so confused rn 😆
Not sure if CapCut runs on that system but IMO because your style of video doesn't need anything advanced (like animated meme effects or high quality color key) it should do everything else.
Sometimes some arbitrary external deadline is exactly what you need to finish a project. Everybody won here.
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@@MrBrax software crashing simulator
You said you were a programmer, not an engineer, but this project proves you're also an engineer.
Or perhaps, that engineering is overhyped as its own profession.
@@alphaforce6998 big talk coming from someone keeping the seat warm for chatGPT!
@@alphaforce6998Anyone can design something but engineers with a traditional education can use physics knowledge to optimize a system rather than making a random guess on the design. An engineer for instance can calculate the maximum deflection of a bridge with a certain material and a certain load, to validate the design before building it, while any person could lay some planks across a river and hope for the best.
@@joshsymonds2615 Did you ask AI for help with your response? Name some engineers who accomplished anything of note within the last 30 years; then do the same with computer programmers. You can ask AI for help with that...oh wait, you'd ask AI, the work of a computer programmer. Looks like your off to a bad start.
@@SnitchyCat Yet people have managed to get by with "try it and it just works" for most of time. The claim is not that engineering is useless, but that it is overhyped as a profession. It's like you don't need a degree in thermodynamics to be an effective chef...just like anyone can build a perfectly fine thing without a degree in engineering.
Formal engineering is almost like a problem looking for a solution.
This might grow into the greatest Ender 3 conversion project ever.
I think the Ender 3 NG is still better, this is still very cool though
This is awesome to see, and honestly one of the first 4 axis 3D printers that makes sense to me and doesn't feel like a toolhead slapped on a robot arm.
I agree, absolutely and wholeheartedly.
Granted those are great if your a major industrial company but for us at home this is more reasonable
Agreed. I think we’ll see consumer printers that look like this within the next several years as NP slicing is solved.
But the first thing I thought when I saw it was, 'oooh a robot arm!'
I resent that as someone with a tool head slapped on a robot arm lol.
I'd actually like vertical rotation on my robot arm (Rotric Dexarm) .
Actually it would be good with vertical and horizontal rotation.
What he's done here is amazing.
I feel like this dude is a time traveler, I mean he single handedly builds an insane next gen 3D printer for a less than $400 and gives it to the community to develop further.
mind = blown
Awesome! Just Awesome!!
Decades of 5-axis CNC Machines all face-palm in unison.
@@alphaforce6998 We're all standing on shoulders of giants.
But making it open source was always the driving force behind the RepRap printers ;)
@@RobinCernyMitSuffix My issue is the OP in the video is presenting it like it's his own discovery/invention...and the comments are full of ignorant simps who think he's some kind of genius for copying a longstanding CNC machine design and replacing the spindle with a plasti-jizz squirter.
Using one belt to control both the linear position and angle of the print head is genius.
nothing new
I agree it’s very smart, reduces complexity 👍
@@yannmassard3970 Can you quote where he said "new"?
@@yannmassard3970 You must be fun at parties....
"Just kidding I did it"
I'm getting a CompSci masters and I don't even know where to fucking start with this dude
You are simply assembled alternatively
It's a geometry problem. The comp sci part is secondary. So yeah this guy is good at both 😂
@@mitchellsteindler It's even worse. It's 3D math. It's insane. IDK how I passed those game programming classes. XD
THIS is what non-planar slicing should be, with this design, you don't even need to use the rotational axis if you want to just run regular gcode, but the option is there to do non-planar stuff as well. Really well thought out and an excellent design.
Genious! The kinematics are way less complex/finicky than previous multi axis printers i have seen, this has a much higher chance of becoming more common.
Brilliant! As a mechanical engineer I see so much value in you tackling the slicing/software side, that's the real optimization problem now that you have the concept hardware working. That said, let me know if you are looking for a collaborator!
Holy crap this is cool. You didn't just build the machine, but you also did the math. I love it! I'm only 22 seconds in and can already see that this is going to make an impact on the 3D print community. That is, unless Stratasys is going to hunt you down saying your design looks like one of their nonsense patents. I hope this makes it out into the wild! I love it!
I see it as two great achievements: the whole slicing for anything other than the regular prints was unsolved, and he made the software for it and also the built itself, of course. Thanks for going open-source, btw. 🙏
Absolutely.
actually I have a patent on using various axis of movement (such as linear and rotational, though this is a non-exhaustive list) in order to move a toolhead to various points in space (dubbed "locations") with electrical, hydraulic, manual, and or pnuematic actuation. (also non-exhaustive)
This also infringes on a patent of mine with regards to using a thin flexible strip of material (dubbed a "belt") to confer rotational and/or linear motion across a distance.
Unironically, this machine is beautiful.
This may be a dumb suggestion, but what if you replaced the bed's single rotating motor with a similar mechanism to how the extruder arm and head operates? Having two motors spin the print bed, but then when they rotate in opposite directions, they move the print bed in a linear motion perpendicular to the axis the print arm moves. Like some kind of hybrid rotating bedslinger. The bed slinging would ONLY be used to prevent issues with singularities, but beyond that, idk if it'd even be worth it.
This is a great idea, and I hope it receives more attention. If the R axis of the tool head was perpendicular to the R axis of the bed, you'd actually have an X,Y,Z, along with an A and B axis. No more dead zone.
My idea was to allow for the print bed to be a cylinder, which would be tricky, but would also allow for some other use cases, and excellently strong parts since your layer lines can be along the length of the part and never overlap.
Print speed will always be limited when using a moving-bed design, since you have to accommodate the tendency of the part's inertia to tear it off the bed. Axial beds reduce the forces somewhat, but are still fairly restrictive. What about, instead of sliding the bed, we put the main print arm on its own vertical axis? This would allow the print head to sweep through the center of the bed axis, and the combined movements could be optimized for maximum acceleration along both axis independently in order to maximize total traversal speed.
IMO the real value here isn't in reducing support material, but in enabling more structurally useful layer alignment. So maybe just intentionally printing with strong supports to promote bed adhesion and prevent slip/layer shift would also be adequate.
@@haphazard1342 I was going to write a comment, but I quickly realized that I had no idea what I was talking about. So instead, I'll just include my thought process as to why I thought I would put the extra axis on the bed instead of the gantry.
In my mind, adding an exra axis to the already complicated gantry setup would probably reduce more deflection than adding that same axis to the bed instead. Like, both axis, axes? on the printer now can suport the print head easily because they're perpendicualr to both the axis they're moving along, and also their axis of rotation. But if you added an x-axis to the bottom of the gantry so it could slide back and forth, all the weight of the printer head would be exerting a moment in line? parallel? in the direction of rotation along the x-axis. Imagine cutting a CNC router gantry in half, it'd tip over without some serious extra support on the remaining side. Meanwhile a slinger axis put on the bed wouldn't suffer from that issue. idfk where I'm going with this. Just my thoughts.
When path planning for slicing the gcode, I wonder if this would create too many degrees of freedom and thus become an unsolvable problem from the inverse kinematics perspective.
@@timothysands5537 Hmm, maybe. There would be 1 x-axis and 1 z-rotation for the bed, plus 1 y-axis, 1 z-axis, and 1 x-rotation for the gantry. Not saying my idea is good or feasible, but you could probably limit the software to being only able to use slinger and bed rotation separately. Like, if it wanted to rotate the bed, it'd have to go back to zero or something. Though that brings another issue, depending on the calibration, it might be extremely difficult to line up the center of the bed if it's on a slinger with the print head on the gantry. As the machine sits right now, the center of the bed is in-line with the print head, and it CAN'T misalign, ust due to how it's built. But with a bedslinger option, it could. Then you'd potentially have a MASSIVE distortion issue
MINDBLOWING! - You should have Nobel Prize for this invention!
we need a company to sell this to the public, this should be made easily accesible, this pushes 3d printing to a new level
Wow, the fact that you made a general non-planar slicer is incredible! I haven't seen anything like that outside of specific research settings. The simplicity of the kinematics is amazing, too!
what I think will be the biggest benefit of this type of printing is the axis-agnostic uniform strength of your print. If you print your object like you're winding up a ball of yarn, you won't have the weakness that traditional prints have in the Z-axis when layers separate.
It will actually make some geometries uniformly weak, that's kind of the issue I was noticing. Look at the model of the tree that was printed where every branch is being made from small stacked layers whereas if it was printed traditionally you'd need supports but there would be larger cross-sections. Same goes with the propeller.. it will print well without supports which is impressive but the blades will be very weak.
@@dtylerb It might be possible to strengthen the parts by printing outer layers along the branches. Can't print all branches at the same time, though.
@@neuschf yes. Even if you still end up with some layers, if you can align the layers along the part axis as closely as possible then it's still a major improvement since each layer has more surface area for bonding.
7:33 Why not to give DaVinci Resolve a try? It has free version.
Can vouch for it, it's been able to do anything I've wanted and it's never asked for a payment.
Worked 5 year in profesionnal video editing. By far my favorite software. The optimisation for realtime playback of crazy high resolution is not as automatic as in finalcut pro with prores, but after a bit of tweeking you can get way better performance.
With colorgrading, vfx and sfx integrated, its amazing.
Incredibly cool! Amazing that you actually already did what's arguably the hard part, the slicing. It's also awesome how simple your printer design really is. It looks like this would have a similar BOM cost to a typical bed slinger. This could genuinely bring non-planar and 4 axis printing forward!
To say "impressive" would be an understatement. This is amazing.
Amazing work! Seeing the nozzle rotating while printing is so satisfying. Can't wait to see where this project goes in the future 🙌
What a busy bee. 1 year no videos at all - and then such a banger. Your work payed off. This is a very nice approach to 3D printing. When it works for CNC why not for printers, too.
it's unusual to create an invention like this, could end up being really important. hope people remember you
Everyone is stoked about the cool non-planer stuff, but I say congratulations on graduating! Looks like you wasted your time at Cambridge a lot more productively than I did, lol.
Humble brag
im a computer scientist, this man isnt, he is in fact a wizard.
Clicks on video: "These multi-axes print heads are cool but the slicers just can't support them yet"
2 mins in: 😲
Looking forward to more!
This is awesome, I loved the early days of 3D printing where folks were coming up new types of 3D printers. This is bringing me back to those days.
pretty inspiring project! 👏😎
The way you speak and your knowledge made me think you’re a 40 yr old software engineer. The face cam at the end took me by surprise 😂
my ego disintegrated
I WAS CURRENTLY PLANNING ON BUILDING A A POLAR PRINTER AND RUNNING IT ON MY DUET 2 WIFI….!
AND THEN YOUR VIDEO POPS UP!!!
JOSH…..THIS HAS MADE ME SO HAPPY!!!
This is such an elegant and flexible solution. You should be really proud. This will unlock so many exciting forms for printed parts!!!
I think that a solution for the singularity problem would be allowing the printing head to travel a bit beyond the center of a bed so the central zone could be filled with almost regular cartesian movements, although the code itself may be a bit sophisticated for this and would not completely eliminate structural weakness in the region.
yeah RRF wouldn't support that easily
BRO I don't even know what to say other than I can't wait to see you open source this. At first I was thinking, "Yeah, that's a cool design and all but demos like this don't mean much without... wait, what?!"
Seriously, hats off to you man.
Very cool! I've been experimenting with remote, pneumatic cooling in a VERY SIMILAR way to cut as much weight as possible off of the gantry for high speed operations, but this is on a whole other level!!!
Just the advantages due to the form factor are massive. It would ship, store, repair, etc. much easier.
Dudes like this make me feel insecure that I will ever feel like an engineer. How the hell does one do this while still not having finished university. Being a computer scientist, understanding so much software, maths, mechanics etc and having the time to develop a new way of 3d printing... Im feeling so bad about myself right now just because of how amazing this whole thing is. What the hell... Just wow. How does one even learn all of this. i was expecting a dude maybe 35+ and you are just there at probably under 25 doing all of this. I would stumble as soon as it gets to any kind of calculations and here you are doing kinematic stuff, mechancal stuff, software stuff, firmware stuff, literally I have no idea how I can turn firmware commands into G-code and develop a new way for slicing... I... know...nothing
Damn...... this, you, all of it is insane! I was wondering when this one person (you) finally achieves something like this. I compiled an early non-planar Slicer by myself with the hope to achieve insane prints but ended up with insane amounts of nerve taking slicer issues. XD. You are the light of new printers, the savior of ........ okay being realistic here, how long some BS Company gives you a vast load of money and we will never be able to replicate this...... WILD you open sourced it. LEGEND. YOU ARE AWESOME!
Unbelievable! This will change everything we've learned about 3d printing!
This man open sourced! Graduated! And provided context to something! THANK YOU! continue to go down this path of hobby projects, using trials 😂, and making your hobby something to be fun! Don't let it become a "Job" you have to do! Really thanks I am so tempted to try to make this!
This is an answer project. Can't wait to see more videos on it. You are amazing
This is so amazing! Thanks for sharing! Tempted to make one myself!
Well, if there is someone who can build one that's you.
That’s the coolest diy printer I’ve seen in a long time! Nice work!
This is awesome. I smashed the subscribe button so fast and hard that it indented the screen.
Amazing!! Thanks for making such a great effort and keeping it all open-source. This motion platform might also come in handy for 3d scanning!
The probe on the side is true big brain move!
Now imagine another nozzle, IDEX in one print head
@@andyl2895 I hope he sees your comment.
Super Awesome! Love that the only reason I get to see this is that your free trial was running out. Nathan Builds Robots uses a counter rotating mass for his polar bed or something like that. Having melted many fan ducts, PC Carbon Fiber filament can be printed on an i3 style printer. It is great for temperature resistance and easy to print because the fiber breaks up the long polymer chains and severely reduces warping. All you need is new nozzle and a cardboard box to put over the printer. ABS+ from eSun is also an option but not as temperature resistant as PC CF. Also excited to see the ceramic version.
amazing work brother very simple deasign no complex parts so that we can focus on the printing more than debugging. hats off
The slicer is bringing me to the channel!! I'm subscribed!
Amazing printer, and the fact you designed a competent slicer is breathtaking! Also love seeing RRF out in the wild, it's an absolute treasure box of functionality 🙏 (Tried them all, RRF is hands down my favorite, wish that more people gave it a shot)
We need more info on that non-planar slicer. This could be HUGE for the entire hobby fdm 3d printing world.
Wow! That's a really clever design. It's mesmerizing to watch and I can't wait to see where you take this!
Wow, amazing!! Doing great things for the 3D printer community!
Oh my god.... hahaha.
My first thought was, "that looks so awesome!".
Second thought was, "Although, slicing for non-planar printers is the true challenge." You promptly addressed that right away! This is extremely exciting!
For years, 3d printer companies have been coasting along.
Bambu has taken the market by storm and may have uncontrolled bowel movements after seeing this. Whoever gets this design to mass market first will likely iwn the 3d printing market.
Impressive work, and thank you for making it open source!
i thought about saying :"i wished i have had seen this earlier!" but this project is so fresh out of the oven, i would have needed to be precognicient. Great design. I hope someone get's done an even cheaper build of this configuration for those people with budgetary restrictions. This is truly marvellous. Additive machining in a rotational geometry and the slicer optimizing it on top. that is next level!
The software is what amazes me the most, and has implications beyond just printing unusual geometrys without supports. It's possible to print parts with crossed layer lines in three dimensions, entirely bypassing their typical weaknesses. For example; that propeller could have had a basic internal skeleton built up as shown, then built out further with long paths across it's length with other alternating layers sorta wrapping it together in the way that carbon fiber layups are usually constructed to prevent there being any direct cleavage paths.
With strong tensile elements added inline to the melt, along with a mechanism for severing them when the nozzle has completed a layer and needs to be repositioned, a 3D printed part would have the potential to be much stronger than a conventionally molded one. I'm immediately subscribed
Wow this is really impressive! Kudos to you, you made it seem like it was a walk in the park but I’m sure you had to put a lot of work into it.
For all those who are interested in non-planar slicing the developer of my preferred slicer IceSL silently released an update a couple of weeks ago which integrated non-planar slicing.
This project is really cool and the simplicity of the mechanics is awesome, subbed.
This is brilliant. Can't wait to see some tutorials and more details on this.
There's not just one insanely clever thing here, there's like ten. And the fact that you have to combine mechanical design with electronic and computer programming. The head rotation and arm projection kinematics amazing. Yes this was anticipated by CoreXY kinematics but this is truly innovative still. I know conical slicers have been done before but had to be adapted because this is certainly not a conical printer. Even the incidental little rubber band cradle trick to silence the air pump. Simply a tour de force.
Go forth and continue to be amazing sir Bird! What a cool invention. You're going places.
This looks like a really fantastically engineered and almost entirely practical design (I’d worry a bit about the tubes feeding the tool head clipping the work piece).
I hope you get to work on this further!
Super impressive! Can't wait to follow along with this project.
YOOO this is amazing, really clever way to rotate the 4th axis, can't wait to see more
This is amazing! I was going to subscribe just for the current project, but when I heard you are working on a ceramic printer as well, I couldn't click, "Subscribe" fast enough. Keep up the great work!
A free trial ending is one hell of a motivator
geeze this is epic. these are the people we need just experimenting all day instead of grinding a 9-5
Aerospace software engineering lecturer here... young man decide on a licence for your code ASAP. I would very much like to use this:
A: In the classroom
And
B: As an avenue for student dissertation projects.
I can do neither via my University's policies till there's a licence attached to the repo 😅
I had started on working on this exact idea a month ago, I knew someone would beat me to it. I even shared the idea with coworkers to see if anyone would be interested to help out in building a prototype. Congrats to you!
The insane work to make this accessable is awesome. You talked about other solutions just using robot arms or an existing 4 axis cnc, would have saved you a ton of time but what you've designed could be turned into a real product under $1000 if you can make a user friendly slicer. I love the homing and bed leveling systems. Hopefully cooling can be simpler.
Bravo! I could think of no better single word. Genius was the the close second, but lacked the gratitude deserved.
You're actually a genius, this is incredibly impressive. You're able to apply simple solutions in out of the box ways to solve complex problems. Amazing.
The potential of fdm printers to print without specific layers is something truly powerful. Thank you for pushing the boundaries of innovation forward with your ideas
Absolutely Amazed! Forget Video Trials.... DaVinci Resolve is Powerful & Free. Cheers
Great work man, don't give up on this! My hobby became my career many years ago, watching your video reminded me of some of my internal dialog way back when..
This is wild!! Absolutely fantastic presentation and nice editing. 🤗
Might change the future of 3D printing for real 👍
It's so great!!! I'd been working in AM industry for developing 3d printing for over 7 years before I moved to Canada last year. and I've been thinking that it will solve a looot of realistic problems happening in real industries if there is a 3d printer that can slice the models into concentric cylinderic layers. SOOOOOOOOOO Glad to see this happening. And I also have some more other idea to share.
Excellent work Mr Bird! Actually - mindblowing. Thanks for sharing!
i had this idea after seeing that metal 3d printer guys video where he did something similar. glad to see you did this, looks great, very natural, like it should have been this way from the start.
what about a double-y rotating platform with one being offset from the other? Either a cam, or perhaps a compound rotation, allowing the bed to make parabolic arcs (to avoid the "dead zone" in the middle)? Congrats on graduating, and thanks for sharing your work. Very interesting, indeed!
FINALLY a project like this that's not just a hardware proof-of-concept. Amazing job!
Epic work!! Super clever solutions! Well done!
Well done :) thanks for putting in the effort to share the progress with us, it's truly motivating and also exciting to learn how such an obscure printer can be supported in software.
This is HUGE, great work!!
Dude YOU are the GOAT! what an awesome advancement!
Absolutely sick!
I have a couple of ideas tho:
A) just add a blower fan on the Z axis gantry pointing at the rough area where the nozzle spends most of its time.
B) it might be interesting to see if a 90deg heat block makes sense in this config, since it would let you get the angle as close as possible to horizontal. I believe some upside down printer used it without any weird issues
super excited to see where both the printer and slicer go!
the way it prints looks soooo alien compared to a typical 3 axis 3d printer, its fascinating and feels like a software nightmare~
Great achievement! You can be proud .Hope you can get the time and resources you need to push this concept further
This is really incredibe. The ingenuity is astounding!
Okay i love this design, this is one of the best ideas i have see yet. and i agree how have you not heart about Reprap, its where it all began 😀 the amount of time i spent on that forum is just insane 😅
Super sick project! Awesome work; can't imagine how much work went in all of this.
What? A non planar slicer? You are a fricking ledgend! Thank you very much ❤
Uh, this is FREAKING AWESOME. One more thing that might be worthy of investigation is printing on a cylinder. Zeroing on the cylinder might be difficult, but that would add another layer of awesome to this. It would also eliminate the dead zone. It would also make for very strong prints since the layer lines could be printed at angles along the shaft and opposing every layer, almost like pultrusion.
To deal with the dead zone you might try to transfer straight across the center and then switch the direction when you reach the opposite perimeter. I suppose you'd need to lift in the middle, but that shouldn't be too bad. This kind of thing happens regularly in cartesian printing.
If you need something printed I'd love to help you out, sadly shipping from me would be silly. I'm sure someone else will offer you printer time. I can help you design things if you give me an assignment though.
I think that it's truly amazing that you didn't know about reprap and still made this! That's awesome. I can't wait to see you dig into klipper 🎉
This is next level stuff. Not only does it solve a major issue with traditional printing (overhangs) but it also is just mesmerizing to watch. Looks like the ender 3 s1 might be getting a new life
The method for controlling rotation of the head and extension of the head with the same two rotating parts is genius, well done!
serious game changer. well done!
Fantastic work, amazing.
Quick question... might the central axis point issue be helped by printing objects off center - avoiding the problem axis where possible?
Thanks again and congratulations all around!
Very cool! The core x theta is pretty neat. Excited to see how your slicer work goes as that is key to getting a poject like this mainstream. Cheers
My Dad would've loved to see this dude, he was a huge open source & 3d printing nerd.
And I can relate to the free trial 🤣 Resolve is absolutely worth the pivot learning curve imo, it can do 3 program's worth of work (premiere/fcp, coloring software, protools/audio nle).