November 27, 2024
Description
This is a complete skirt mod for Voron Trident.
The stock skirts on Vorons feature very big hexagons which allow for fingers to pass through and are also aestehtically too “busy” for my taste. The aim here is on one side to keep the skirt as open to airflow as possible while closing up electronics bay as much as possible to make it more in line with regular consumer electronic equipment.
Thanks go to WizardPC for testing the design on his Trident and providing an image of the build for the cover image (have a look at his make for more images).
The flat mesh skirt design for Voron 2.4 can be found here: https://www.printables.com/model/608754-flat-mesh-skirt-voron-24-350300250mm
The flat mesh is not built into the STL files, instead it is created only at slicer level via modification volume. The reason for this is that the slicer can create a more robust yet finer mesh than a regular sliced STL file. The honeycomb infill has no line crossings, while the printing direction is rotated every layer by 120°. This way it is a truly woven mesh. To prevent breakin off of the mesh from the frame, the modifier volume extends into the frame in the middle layers, effectively fusing it at its edge into the frame. The result is light, fine yet very robust.
To print the mesh correctly you need to open the 3mf files as project in Prusa Slicer or mimic the slicer settings in other slicers using the frame part stl and its respective modifier file. Be aware that the mesh direction does not rotate with the object. You can rotate the mesh direction by changing the infill angle.
The infill% defines the size of the mesh. At the given setting the mesh has the very size and depth that when seen from the side the mesh looks almost solid while from the front it looks fairly open. The settings are for 0.4 mm nozzles. If you use larger nozzles like eg 0.6, also the lanes making up the mesh will be wider.
Mesh Modifier Stock settings:
0.42 mm line width
45° infill angle for objects at 45°←needs to be changed if mesh does not align with skirt
22% honeycomb infill (no perimeter, no bottom/top layer) ←for 0.4mm nozzles, you can change the density of the mesh easily by changing the infill percentage, to your liking. 0.6mm nozzles need a higher percentage for a similar mesh density.
Side Skirt
40x40 fans are mounted by pressfit into the side skirts. Optionally one can install the heatsets and print the mounting brackets for addtional security. The brackets are designed to be used with some additional EPD tape at the extrusions and should slide into the side intentations of the fan. (Not tested yet).
The slim lower side wall of the fan mount, is a bit fragile and I recommend covering that slim wall on both sides in a slim film of superglue (low viscosity is easier to work with but regular one should work too) and let it fully dry before trying to insert the fans.
BOM (except for 6 M3x8 socket head cap screw DIN912 / ISO4762 and 6x M3 heat inserts) all hardware is from the stock assembly)
12+6x M3 Voron style heat inserts (M3x5x4) (https://www.kris3d.de/products/heatinserts-m3x5x4?_pos=1&_sid=886fd1c22&_ss=r)
4x M5 Voron style heat inserts
4x M5 Nut
28x M3 x 8 mm socket head cap screw DIN912 / ISO4762
12x M3 x 6 mm button head screws ISO 7380-1
4x M5 x 10 mm button head screws ISO 7380-1
License:
GNU General Public License v3.0
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