Check out my dual head Modix Big 60!
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I've been working with a modix big 60 and my company wanted to double the output in the same floor space for medium and small parts. It's a little bit of a Frankenstein's monster, but its working great!
I got a duplicate gantry and made some aluminum parts to lock the gantries to the same axis. The first test were some classic benchys. They actually came out at a great quality, even the slave gantry!
Here is the config file adjustment! I created a third tool that runs both of the extruders and heats them up to the same temperatures.
Lastly, I had to create a cura profile that would work. Basically, I created a third tool in cura and cut the y-axis in half for the offset of the second tool head.
The machine thinks it is only creating one object, but actually outputting two!
Let me know what you think!
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@djthuma great work. Its like the "ditto" mode for an IDEX printer. but without the complexity of a second IDEX axis.
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@t3p3tony
Yes!
I can still select to print a single item with the primary or secondary extruder.
And its a much less expensive adaptation than buying an entire printer for idex, and not having all of the bugs that a "new" idex type of system has currently.
