I build the worlds fastest 3D Printer on a printed frame. The design is free, the parts needed are affordable and its easy to build

[Matt the Printing Nerd]

Hello,

i'm Matt the Printing Nerd, and today I want to share a project with you that has been in development for over 6 months. The design is free, the parts needed are affordable and its easy to build.
 

My goal was to create a 3D Printer based on a self printed frame that was capable of printing speedboats as fast as possible to attempt at the #speedboatrace.

 

By the time posting the Printer is at the 26th rank of the leaderboard of the fastest printers in the world and it's the fastest one that uses a 3d printed frame.

It prints a 3D Benchy in less than 6 minutes and is capable of doing high quality prints in 1/10th of the time a Ender 3 would need.

 

And the best thing, this printer 100% open source. Which means if you like this printer and you like to build one by own, you find all resources needed to do this on github.

 

 

[Needfuldoer]

I want one.

[manikyath]

what's the print quality like at 400mm/s?

 

my stone age wanhao can go quite fast, but the faster you go, the more intense vibrations get, so the more print quality suffers.

 

as for the real time footage... the shaking of the camera is either from it being sped up, or from the printer shaking so hard it's gonna make print quality an absolute mess.

[Matt the Printing Nerd]

7 minutes ago, manikyath said:

what's the print quality like at 400mm/s?

 

my stone age wanhao can go quite fast, but the faster you go, the more intense vibrations get, so the more print quality suffers.

 

as for the real time footage... the shaking of the camera is either from it being sped up, or from the printer shaking so hard it's gonna make print quality an absolute mess.

It's good, i would consider it good enough for a functional part. I've recorded a video on printing Quality. It's linked at Github, have a look there. (I don't want to link it here as it would be against community guidelines)

[Radium_Angel]

A wonderful concept, but I don't want speed, I want quality. I bought the cheapest build it yourself kit I could find (at the time anyway) a Tronxy X1. Paid 50$ for it.

I print at 40mm/sec and the quality is simply delightful. With eSun PLA, I get no failure.

I'd like to see some of the printed results at the high speed of your printer.

[manikyath]

36 minutes ago, Matt the Printing Nerd said:

It's good, i would consider it good enough for a functional part. I've recorded a video on printing Quality. It's linked at Github, have a look there. (I don't want to link it here as it would be against community guidelines)

i already have a huge problem here. i dont like it when people exaggerate their achievements.

you imply it prints at 400mm/s... yet in your video you're printing perimeter at 160mm/s, and honestly.. the quality isnt that much better than my wanhao, which isnt a benchmark for print quality these days...

 

it's a lovely design, it gets a lot of things right that are missed by a lot of designs, but it's *not* the speed monster you make it out to be. just reinforcing an off the shelf printer and upgrading the hotend assembly gets you to the same point, for not much more money, and much less work.

 

i also kind of have a problem with 3D printed 3D printers, especially when it's full of 90° corners, where your print WILL tatigue crack of you hammer it with vibrations long enough (which is sort of the very goal of this printer..) if a steel frame is an option, i'll always go steel over plastic. or - y'know.. just put acrylic panels on it. the "box of plates" design of ultimaker is hugely underrated for what it does for rigidity.

[Matt the Printing Nerd]

2 hours ago, manikyath said:

i already have a huge problem here. i dont like it when people exaggerate their achievements.

you imply it prints at 400mm/s... yet in your video you're printing perimeter at 160mm/s, and honestly.. the quality isnt that much better than my wanhao, which isnt a benchmark for print quality these days...

 

it's a lovely design, it gets a lot of things right that are missed by a lot of designs, but it's *not* the speed monster you make it out to be. just reinforcing an off the shelf printer and upgrading the hotend assembly gets you to the same point, for not much more money, and much less work.

 

i also kind of have a problem with 3D printed 3D printers, especially when it's full of 90° corners, where your print WILL tatigue crack of you hammer it with vibrations long enough (which is sort of the very goal of this printer..) if a steel frame is an option, i'll always go steel over plastic. or - y'know.. just put acrylic panels on it. the "box of plates" design of ultimaker is hugely underrated for what it does for rigidity.

I dont exaggerate as all. THE 100 is able to print at those speeds and it's able to print reliably at those speeds. Yes, the Benchy produced is not a beauty, but it’s a perfect piece to learn from. It’s a bit like testing cars with crash-test dummies. In these extreme moments, you learn where the weakest point of your construction is. Eventually, you are able to print quality parts much faster and more reliably than before, because you solved bottlenecks that were not visible, but that influenced your prints, such as small, ringing artefacts or minimal layer shifts. At the end by reducing the speed to about 2/3 of maximum you get perfectly fine parts in a fraction of the time other printers might need.

 

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Matt the Printing Nerd said:

I dont exaggerate as all. THE 100 is able to print at those speeds and it's able to print reliably at those speeds. Yes, the Benchy produced is not a beauty, but it’s a perfect piece to learn from. It’s a bit like testing cars with crash-test dummies. In these extreme moments, you learn where the weakest point of your construction is. Eventually, you are able to print quality parts much faster and more reliably than before, because you solved bottlenecks that were not visible, but that influenced your prints, such as small, ringing artefacts or minimal layer shifts. At the end by reducing the speed to about 2/3 of maximum you get perfectly fine parts in a fraction of the time other printers might need.

 

disagree.

 

3 hours ago, manikyath said:

what's the print quality like at 400mm/s?

3 hours ago, Matt the Printing Nerd said:

It's good, i would consider it good enough for a functional part. I've recorded a video on printing Quality.

your video doesnt show 400mm/s, and the things it does show are "acceptable" at lower speeds.. this leads me to believe you're not showing 400mm/s for a reason.

my printer can print fast too, it wont produce anything worthwhile, but it can.

 

also - a functional part needs to be printed well, or it wont fit where it needs to fit.

 

now.. i'm not saying you're full of BS, my point here is that you're clinging to this 400mm/s figure, but it's absolutely unnecessary to. focus on rigidity, focus on the weight balance thing (which is really cool.. why the frick are you only half ass mentioning it in a 30 second bit?), focus on the thermal stability of the hotend. focus on the tweaking you did in the slicer. these are all things that matter. a theoretical top movement speed matters about as much as the angular velocity of a veyron's wheels.

 

printing at 400mm/s is BS, both me and you know it, otherwise your video would show it.