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Originally Posted by Weldangrind
That's fascinating! So, you start with a parent piece of plastic, and then fuse deposition comes off of a roll of filament? If so, that helps me to understand how the Z-axis is accomplished. What kind of thickness can be created?
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the bed size is 8 x 11 and the Z-axis can translate 6", so in theory anything inside that. in reality if you try and print really thick sections you get heat issues that cause warping and dragging the extruder head thru the part. so we normally don't go over about 1/4" thick, dependant on the over all size of things and maintain a 60% max difference between joining walls.
for really large parts, you cut them into sections that the printer can do and then put them together like a jigsaw puzzle using 2-part epoxy or similar.