Important
There is no step-by-step build guide or detailed documentation yet.
The sheet metal version is more difficult to build than what the average Voron user is used to. Please evaluate the required patience and skill levels before proceeding.
This is a performance-oriented, configurable gantry platform for Voron 2.4 and Trident.
- 2WD
- AWD
- 6mm
- 9mm
- Printed
- Sheet metal
- Updated styling
- More shared parts between 6 and 9mm
- Sheet metal options
- Can fit into a stock 2020 frame at the cost of some Y-overtravel with the added no-protrusion mode
- Much better tensioner travel
- No toothed idlers
Note
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- Milled 9mm AWD kits
- Monolith CPAP SLM toolhead
- Better documentation
- The shortest and the simplest belt path possible with AWD compatibility
- The shortest moment arms possible for increased rigidity even when reusing hardware and motion parts
- Double shear steppers and live shaft idlers for higher belt tensions and better reliability
- Good-looking design
- Cheap BOM
2WD: Due to the 10-15cm shorter belt path, with stiffer and lighter XY-joints the printer should perform similarly to a 50mm smaller one equipped with the same X-axis setup.
AWD: It doesn't come at the cost of adding 20cm belt length and idlers, so input shaper scaling can be close to +100% compared to 2WD due to the truly halved effective belt length. But only when no toolhead or frame bottlenecks are limiting its scaling.
9mm belts: Wider belts can offer an additional 50% input shaper scaling on top of what's described above.
- you have to build a well-balanced system: the increased effective belt stiffness with higher-end gantry configurations will amplify toolhead and frame rigidity issues
- Some toolheads are not yet compatible because of the different belt path
- Z-chain relocation or Z-umbilical is needed on V2
- Trident rear vertical extrusion brackets have to be rotated by 180 degrees or swapped to regular 2020 brackets based on the gantry configuration
I want to thank:
- ifp, iniqy, krankydonkey, MoneyShot, Nicket, tktktktk, Zakfarias, Scarecrow, The Adeo for testing and good feedback
- Sy-Noon for the awesome logo and feedback on general aesthetics
- ZaMarin for FAQ
- Armchair Heavy Industries for the exposure and the moderation help I got in their user-project space
- VoronDesign for making V2.4 and Trident and for starting me on this journey to improve my FDM design skills
- anyone who helped me along the way
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