Ultimaker 2 design plans?

[musti 0]

Hi,

I would like to congratulate the Ultimaker team for this very nice and new 3d printer, looking very awesome.

Following up on the "Just like the Original the Ultimaker 2 will remain open source.", could you please point me towards these plans. At the moment I am particularly interested in slider blocks design, to figure out if they can be printed in 3D. I am jsut about to order some mechanical aprts and would be nice to plan for longer X,Y 6mm rods if feasible.

All the best with the upcoming presentation!

 

[Daid 304]

The slider blocks are not printable, as they click together. (There is the bushing and a spring in there for belt tension)

I recommend looking at my TITAN slider blocks: https://github.com/daid/TITAN those are printable and about the same size and design as the UM2 sliderblocks.

In the UM2 we did extend the X/Y 6mm rods a bit so they hit the endstops. So you might want to think about that.

 

[musti 0]

Unfortunately I had no luck with Titan and SCAD, just couldnt get to compile it. I have seen some mentions on the forum of the injection mold block stl being released on YouMagine, couldnt find it though.

 

[Daid 304]

In injection mold tree on YouMagine is for the Ultimaker-Original. So no UM2 sliderblocks in there.

These are the TITAN sliderblocks: http://daid.eu/~daid/titan/sliderblock.stl

 

[musti 0]

Tnx.

 

[gr5 2,071]

Not everything UM2 has been published yet. They are busy - give them a little time.

 

[Daid 304]

Actually, the full statement on our OpenSource-ness should go online soon. But it goes something like "bla, bla, we'll release the UM2 files in 6 months, bla bla". There is a lot of confusion about this. But the UM2 files will NOT be released right now.

But Harma is actually sorting out and uploading the UM-Original files right now, as we will put them online ASAP. You could follow the repository on github if you want notification as soon as it happens: https://github.com/Ultimaker/UltimakerOriginal

I think the UM-Ori is much more interesting for hackers anyhow. Except for a few bits&pieces from the UM2. I'll see if I can arrange to upload the printable direct drive files online. (The final injection molded parts are not really printable, but we have a design that prints great. I even installed it on my own printer)

 

[rigelsix 0]

I just checked out the GitHub for the Original Ultimaker Plans. Beautiful documentation.

Really great to have mechanical drawings and plans for everything. Thanks to the whole Ultimaker team.

 

[hreedijk 4]

I'm really interested in the printable direct drive files Daid, if you could upload them I'll be very gratefull !