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I have a question in regards to 3d modeling for a filament slicer addon to my hotend (lemmy.one)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I was able to get the cad files from the good folks at micro swiss for their microswiss ng ender 3 edition. I also found a step file for a generic filament slicer. How easy would it be for me to somehow combine the two? I am okay at cad. But this seems like an undertaking, unless there's an easy way to do it. Has anyone done something like this before? The closest I've found was someone made one for the microswiss ng ender 5 edition, but I haven't been able to get a hold of the creator.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm also confused by what you're trying to do. When you say you found "the step file for a generic filament slicer", what is the model actually of? When you say "combine the two", what do you mean? Are these two parts that fit together that you want to make one model, is it two separate things that you just want attached as one piece, are they two variations of the same thing that you want parts of one on the other, etc...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So the filament cutter was remixed from this:

https://www.printables.com/model/755931-microswiss-direct-drive-mmu-filament-cutter

The link to it is here:

https://thangs.com/designer/technik.gegg/3d-model/Filament-Cutter-Base-Module%20V4-942113

The first link I sent you is someone who has combined another microswiss ng hotend with the filament cutter base, and since microswiss gave me the step file for the ender 3 version, I was wondering if this was an absolute undertaking, or if it's not as complicated as I think

If you'd like to take a look at the microswiss step file DM me and I'll send it