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[Nicholas Wattendorf]

Hi everyone me and my dad came back from maker faire NY where I saw
one of the coolest 3D Printers out there. I got to see a utilimaker in
action. It just so happens that they have a new model that is about 2
feet tall. While after seeing that and going to see arcattack I had a
really unique idea. So i asked Erick from Utilimaker why he does not
have 2 extruder heads like makerbot and he informed me that you could
add 4! After that brain blast I had yet another idea why would i just
make a utilimaker just 2 feet tall? So after some thinking I asked our
local RepRap group guy from Make it labs how big his laser cutter is
which i found to be 4 feet by 3 feet!! So now I am working on building
a 4 foot tall by 3 feet wide Utilimaker with 4 extruder heads!! Am I
crazy or what?? Anyways if you want to follow what I am up to check
out my new Blog at www.rep-up.com

[cyrozap]

That sounds awesome! Where are you going to find a 4' x 3' laser cutter? Will you be cutting the design in half and then bolting it together later? Maybe you should limit it to 4'/3' by 2' because the larger objects you'll be making will take an absurdly long time. Also, 4' x 2' x2' would be a lot more manageable/portable than 4' x 3' x 3'.

If you make this work well, I will be thoroughly impressed. I'm thinking of a giant 8' submarine made of PLA...

[cyrozap]

That's awesome! Though I do wonder if this is actually feasible.
You'll certainly need at least a 4' by 3' laser cutter (unless you
chop the design in half). Then, you'll have to account for the absurd
amount of time a 4' tall print would take. I would suggest that you
make it 4' x 2' x 2' or 3' x 2' x 2' to make it more manageable and
portable. You should also remember that by increasing the dimensions 2
x 1.5 x 1.5, you will multiply the price (excluding electronics) by
4.5.

I have no idea how you're going to manage 4 heads in software, but if
you do, I will congratulate you.

If you manage to pull this off, it would be fantastic. I'm thinking of
a 4-color (grayscale?) 8' long submarine... ;)

On Sep 19, 9:36 pm, Nicholas Wattendorf <nwattendor...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Forest Crossman]

I'm a noob at email lists, sorry! :/

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[Peter Olson]

At 6:36 PM -0700 9/19/11, Nicholas Wattendorf wrote:

>which i found to be 4 feet by 3 feet!! So now I am working on building
>a 4 foot tall by 3 feet wide Utilimaker with 4 extruder heads!! Am I
>crazy or what?? Anyways if you want to follow what I am up to check
>out my new Blog at www.rep-up.com

Does this design have the extruder in a fixed place with the platform
moving underneath? This probably will work better if the platform is
fixed and the extruder(s) move in X-Y.

peabo

[Nicholas Wattendorf]

Yea it does that's why I really like the utilimaker design a lot better moving extruder and fixed platform = more build area :-)