Showing posts with label blender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blender. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 September 2018

Making Prusa i3 MK3 a bit more stable

A couple of weeks ago I got Prusa i3 MK3 kit as my first 3D printer.

It took me two evenings and a half of Saturday to assemble it. What a nice piece of machinery it is!

I found only a couple of problems with it, first: rubber feet that just wait for any occasion to pop out of the frame when you move the printer.

There are lot of suggestion on Prusa forum how to fix it, using special printed locks, for example, or print completely new feet (what 3D printers are for anyway, if not for replicating and eventually taking over the word).

I've decided to make something myself. And here comes my second problem - last time I used blender3d years ago, so had to spent some time remembering how it works. But after a few trials I eventually got a result with suits me completely. Here it is - a simple shell for Prusa i3 MK3 feet in blender 3d: