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Print Guide

Hardware version: Pilot Run

Everything has been tested in PLA+ or equivalent.

Drive gears would be ideal with really good PLA, such as overture pla professional, but PLA-CF is too abrasive and should not be used for gears. Brims are outer brims only unless otherwise specified. If you are printing in an enclosed core-xy, maybe you don’t need brims, but on a bedslinger you do.

Screw tool

  • 100% infill. print on side with a brim.
  • You only need one for the whole build
  • painted ear brims are all you need to stop it warping up.

Anchor Assembly (4x)

Print four anchors total, you can select either the corner, flat-left, or flat-right variant. Corner variants are meant to be mounted in a wall corner. Flat variants are mounted on a flat wall, with the camera either looking 45 degrees to the left or the right. The camera needs to face into the middle of the work area. Examine your space and determine which types you need. The back plate and cover parts are the only part that differ between the variants.

For example, the following room would require two corner variants, a flat left variant, and a flat right variant.

The Anchor folder contains the common parts for all anchor variants, and then the variant specific parts in subfolders.

Back plate (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill 18%. 10mm brim
  • No supports
  • Print on the widest face (the top)
  • Color irrelevant

There is built in support bridge near the top for the U-shaped slot for the DC barrel jack to print on. You should trim away the bridge from the DC barrel jack slot after printing.

Cover Top (1x)

There is a cover type (corner or flat) for each anchor back plate type. It is divided into two pieces which glue together, called Cover Top and Cover Bottom.

  • 2 walls
  • rectilinear infill, 10%,
  • 10mm brim to prevent corner lifting.
  • Print on the widest face.
  • White or beige color

Cover Bottom (1x)

The matching bottom plate of the cover variant you are printing.

  • 2 walls
  • rectilinear infill, 10%,
  • 10mm brim to prevent corner lifting.
  • Print on the widest face.
  • White or beige color

Retainer (1x)

A small retainer to hold the spool bearing in.

  • 10mm brim if if your printer needs it for small items

Lever (1x)

  • 10mm brim if your printer needs it for small items
  • print on the flat flace that doesn't have a bevel next to it.

Spool side A (1x)

  • No brim

Spool side B (1x)

  • No brim

Gripper Assembly (1x)

Weight is important on all gripper parts. Don't add wall loops or infill just for the hell of it.

Back plate (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%). No brim
  • No supports.
  • Color irrelevant.

Mechanism lid (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%).
  • No supports.
  • Color irrelevant.
  • Brim painted: (see picture)

There are sacrificial objects on the sides that support a 1 layer bridge.
You should remove them and trim away the bridge after printing
A brim is not necessary, and would be hard to remove from the narrow areas of this part, except for around those sacrificial supports. Because they are small and isolated and could become detached.

Spool A (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%).
  • No brim.
  • No supports.
  • Color irrelevant.

Spool B (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%).
  • No brim.
  • No supports.
  • Color irrelevant.

Camera mount (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%). 5mm brim
  • No supports.
  • Color irrelevant.
  • Print on the largest face

Standoff (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%). 5mm brim
  • No supports.
  • Color irrelevant.
  • Print on the largest face

Encoder retainer (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%). 5mm brim
  • No supports.
  • Color irrelevant.

Tall Spacer (4x)

  • 2 walls
  • No brim
  • Very small object, slow down first layer if needed.

Short Spacer (4x)

  • 2 walls
  • No brim
  • Very small object, slow down first layer if needed.

Rod (4x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%). 5mm brim
  • No supports.
  • Color irrelevant.
  • Print such that the screw pockets face up

Finger left (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%). 5mm brim
  • No supports.
  • Color is visible on the finished gripper
  • Print such that the bearing pockets face up

Finger right (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (10%). 5mm brim
  • No supports.
  • Color is visible on the finished gripper
  • Print such that the bearing pockets face up

Geared lever right (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (16%). NO brim
  • No supports.
  • Color is visible on the finished gripper, but not prominent.
  • Print such that the bearing pockets face up

Geared lever left (1x)

  • 2 walls, cubic infill (16%). NO brim
  • No supports.
  • Color is visible on the finished gripper, but not prominent.
  • Print such that the bearing pockets face up

This is not a mirror image of the other finger, it’s a different shape.

Drive gear (1x)

  • 3 walls, cubic infill (20%). 5mm brim
  • No supports.
  • Color irrelevant.
  • Use something good like overture PLA professional

9-tooth gear for mouse wheel encoder (1x)

  • No brim because it’s a gear. If it comes unstuck try again. It only takes a few minutes to print.
  • Its too small for infill to matter.

Shell front (1x)

  • auto tree supports
  • 2 walls
  • infill irrelevant
  • print on the face above the forehead shown in image
  • Use the color you want your gripper to show on the exterior

Shell back (1x)

  • No supports
  • 2 walls
  • Infill is irrelevant
  • print on the upper back face shown in the image
  • Use the color you want your gripper to show on the exterior

Gantry

Shaped guide (1x)

  • 2 walls, rectilinear infill (10%). Inner AND outer 10mm brim
  • No supports.
  • White
  • Print on the largest face

Aruco display box (1x)

  • 2 walls, rectilinear infill (10%). 10mm brim
  • No supports
  • print in white