{"id":795,"date":"2011-01-19T00:47:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T13:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2011-01-19T00:59:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T13:59:56","slug":"mecanum-wheel-rover-reprint-with-slight-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/mecanum-wheel-rover-reprint-with-slight-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Mecanum Wheel Rover – Reprint with slight improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprinting the Mecanum wheels again for someone else but decided to improve the design somewhat. \u00a0One of the most common questions by new users of the Up! 3D Printer is how to remove the raft. \u00a0The raft is one of the love\/hate things of the Up! printer, some people want to get rid of it without understand the importance of it. \u00a0Some thoughts and tips on this ahead…<\/p>\n

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The raft is there for several more reasons than simply acting as support material. \u00a0One of those is to cater for imperfect calibration of the nozzle vs platform height, as well as platform level. \u00a0Can you figure out how?<\/p>\n

Rather than complain about the raft, it is not too hard to design around it. \u00a0One of the annoying things about assembling the original mecanum wheels was, you guessed it, removing the raft off the rollers.<\/p>\n

The raft\/support material is VERY easily removed off curved surfaces. \u00a0Large flat areas are also not a problem, but try to avoid sharp 90 degree features on the bottom of your models. \u00a0Adding a 0.75mm 45\u00b0 chamfer was all it took to get the rollers to snap off the raft easily! \u00a0The wheel hub also had an recessed bottom (2mm deep x ~10mm radius) which originally served to fit the servo horn, but the raft was painful to remove from here. \u00a0Fix? \u00a0Remove the recess.<\/p>\n

Another tip is to loosen the raft around the edges first, and then peel along the ‘grain’. \u00a0Yup, if you look carefully the raft is laid out at diagonal probably 20 degrees to one of the print axis. \u00a0Having a dense (4+) raft and peeling with the grain gives you greatest chance of removing the raft in one piece cleanly.<\/p>\n

Probably should add a video showing this but experimenting yourself can’t hurt you. \u00a0I deliberately added a photo where I was half-way removing the raft\/support material on the various pieces. \u00a0Oh can anyone guess why I would print that frame in the orientation I did? \u00a0Rather than ‘flat’ on the bed and avoiding all that support material?<\/p>\n

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Raft-o-rama... guess why I printed the frame with supports rather than upside down?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Look how cleanly the raft comes off!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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"Cleaned" bits and the junk above!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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F-up...forgot to change the support settings and printed without supports! Compare this with how nicely it can out with supports! Ooo can you see the funky wheel hiding not very well in the background?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PS : I’ll upload to Thingiverse when I assemble it and make sure it all works nice \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

PPS : The red mat is from IKEA…not a bad background… the white tray is from IKEA and its around 600mm x 200mm… not bad for using as a tray for cleaning support material. \u00a0Both $3 each!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reprinting the Mecanum wheels again for someone else but decided to improve the design somewhat. \u00a0One of the most common questions by new users of the Up! 3D Printer is how to remove the raft. \u00a0The raft is one of the love\/hate things of the Up! printer, some people want to get rid of it … Continue reading “Mecanum Wheel Rover – Reprint with slight improvements”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[54,52,9,51],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","tag-3d-printing","tag-mecanum","tag-perverted-engineering","tag-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}