This is a remix of twelvepros redesign of Josef Prusa i3, the printer was built in April 2013, decided after attending a local Maker show in Zaragoza, Spain.
I liked the Prusa i3 single plate design but then I saw twelvepros and thought it was a better option, I just wanted to get rid of the threaded rods y axis mount and adjustments.
Although this is not based on it, I want to mention S. Graber and his Graber i3, he came out also with a very nice redesign of twelvepros of a complete laser cut i3.
The printer is made of 3mm laser cut steel since I wanted it to be sturdy and I had a laser cutting machine available at work:
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The design is for 3mm thickness steel and with lots of carvings to reduce weight. All square holes and tabs have special rounded corners for accommodating corresponding parts and give a very good fit between plates. No threading required.
I hope someone finds this design usefull.
(Leonardo is just the name of my printer, here in our local reprap group we give names to our printers...http://www.reprap.org/wiki/Proyecto_Clone_Wars)
Over 50 people have recently made this printer in Spain, they have been working a lot and they have created a wiki (thank you guys!) for this printer model which they have named P3Steel, the wiki has a lot of helpfull info for building the printer and it even has an animation of the assembly of the printer, I post the link because I am sure it will help anyone that decides to build it, the wiki is both in English and Spanish: http://reprap.org/wiki/P3Steel
Since the number of made printers is increasing exponentially and now everyone knows the printer as the P3Steel I just updated the name to the new one!
| Idler_eje_Y_v3.stl | 242.8KB | |
| PRUSA_i3_steel_3mm_lasercut_1.2_irobri.dwg | 103.9KB | |
| PRUSA_i3_steel_3mm_lasercut_1.2_irobri.dxf | 491.7KB | |
| PRUSA_i3_steel_3mm_lasercut_2.0_irobri.dwg | 103.0KB | |
| PRUSA_i3_steel_3mm_lasercut_2.0_irobri.dxf | 719.6KB |
