Tronxy x5sa -> Franken Voron Build

[piotrb]

I do .. its a bit messy though

basically I hate bed leveling ..

If you wanted to go with a x5sa style Z, I can try to dig up my old Voron 1 style files, it re-uses the linear rods, and sets thing up to basically match up Voron 1.8 style Z axis ..

That worked "ok" but not great (I mean there is a reason the Voron Community went from the V1.8 design over to Trident

With Trident you get 3 independent motors driving the bed, allowing for Klipper to fully adjust the bed tilt automatically for you, with the V1.8 style bed, Klipper can adjust the left to right tilt (to a degree, without the fancy bearings Trident uses, the bed is a big stiff left to right, so you never want your tilt to get too far out, since you're basically putting a lot of shearing force on your bed mount.

My advice would be to skip the V1.8 phase .. but you're welcome to go down this path and try it out

Give me a few days to see if I can export out the right STLs .. and maybe export out some working version of the CAD

 

[labradorius]

@piotrb I understand the sentiment on bed leveling. I have a Voron 0.2 and I wish it had automated bed meshing and a sensor as standard with the design.

I have been working on a CAD using Fusion 360, but I stalled on it because I'm new to CAD. (I'm taking the Trident gantry, the Tronxy Z motion, and shifting the rods inside the frame.)

 

[piotrb]

I had that all basically figured out .. I'm exporting an older version of my CAD for you .. (I wonder how massive the f3z file will end up being lol) .. it was fairly elegant if I can say so myself .. for that particular motion system anyways ..

 

[piotrb]

Here you go: https://github.com/piotrb/tronxy_x5sa_voron/tree/main/Archive/V1 Conversion/CAD

 

[piotrb]

Woot, got my Cereal: This is now officially VT.1869

https://www.reddit.com/r/voroncorexy/comments/1i5c16r/serial_request_tronxy_trident_conversion

 

[Blak]

Here you go: https://github.com/piotrb/tronxy_x5sa_voron/tree/main/Archive/V1 Conversion/CAD

Thanks

 

[Blak]

Congrats with the serial Love your build looks really good Are you updating the cad file I would really love that. im looking at the v69.f3z Are the skirts ready to print or should i wait ?

 

[strayr]

If anyone is planning to follow this, let's connect up on Discord or something, so that way if you need help, we can help improve this conversion together faster.

You still invested in this at all, I was just having a look around as I'm planning some X5SA related stupidity. I have a mercury one conversion that is annoying me as the licence is CC, CAD isn;t always avaialbe. My printer is still on modified but original Z parts and hard to enclose with lots of motion outside the frame.

I have a second printer with some linear rails, but the rods are in poor condition, so one of these will be getting trident style Z. I've not even powered it up yet, just to check over the parts I'm not keeping and planning on selling on ebay.

I was considering switching up the frame parts using all the long horizontals to make a machine with a 350mm bed and all of the vertical travel, perhaps keeping the rods and using a tophat, and using all of the short side parts to make a machine intended to use a 300mm bed fully enclosed within the frame as a more manageable ABS focussed machine. I'm quite interested to know the final build volume you got out of the stock frame and the rail sizes you're using. I don't mind doing a bunch of custom cad work. I'm busy trying to work out how to get the most out of what I've got, and what I actually want without spending stupid money.