Parametric 2.54" connector

Parametric connector for 2.54mm pins

This model is a parametric connector (male, female and locking thumb) for 2.54mm pitched pins. 2.54mm is the most common pitch for pins, like these: 2.54 pitched male connector

Why would you want a parametric connector or being able to print such connector?

If you use a board w...

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Webcam holder clip

Webcam holder clip for Sapphire Plus/Pro

This model is used to maintain the webcam at the right position on the Sapphire Plus and Pro printer.

  • Download
  • Measure
  • Section cut

It's used in this situation:

Clip for webcam

See the link below for the webcam to use for this clip. You can make nice timelapse...

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Folding table reinforcement

Folding table reinforcement part

This model is used to reinforce this folding table mechanism so it's more stable.

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  • Measure
  • Section cut

It's used in this situation:

Table reinforcement position

The clip above is made for table sized 140cm x 70cm.

If you need a version for 70cm x 70cm table, you'll need...

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Sapphire Plus - Assembly Tips (3/4)

Assembly tips for Sapphire Plus 3D Printer - Step 3

Step 4: Mounting the Z lead screws

Before mounting your Z lead screws, you should check their planearity. Mine wasn't planar so you need to get a new one if it happens for you. To inspect your screws, please roll them on a flat surface, like yo...
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Sapphire Plus - Useful links

Useful links concerning Sapphire Plus printer

Issues with building the printer:

Reviews

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Swappable hotend for your 3D printer

Detach and swap your hotend on your 3D printer

Sapphire Plus swappable hotend

If you have read my previous posts about replacing the hotend, you've probably already realized that changing the hotend is a tedious work.

Most of the difficulties comes from:

  1. Wiring the new hotend and sensors...
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Two Trees Sapphire Plus CoreXY 3D printer review

Review of Two Trees's Sapphire Plus Core XY 3D printer

Sapphire Plus 3D Printer

I've decided to buy this 3D printer because it looked strong and solid and well designed. I'm not going to copy all the caracteristics for this printer here, as you'll probably find a lot more on the original manufacturer website.

You'll...

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Sapphire Plus - Upgrade - Replacing the hotend

Replacing the hotend with an E3D

The provided hotend for the Sapphire Plus 3D printer is average. It's not correctly cooled, so it'll fit for PLA well, but it'll be less efficient for PETG. I haven't tried ABS with it. Also, the provided teflon tube has an hole that's too large for the filament...

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Parametizer

Parametizer tool

Parametizer workflow

This is a tool that I've written to help parameterize a polygon mesh back to format that's usable for CAD modelling.

Typically, it's used when you only have a STL file of some model and want to apply some modification to it without having to model the same object from scra...
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Finding the maximum print speed of your printer

How to find the maximum print speed your printer can achieve ?

There are so many variables limiting the printing speed and/or quality you can achieve with your 3D printer. Many of them are interlinked, so I'm proposing a calculator so you can find out the what could be the maximum printing speed t...
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Installing Octoprint on Orange Pi Zero 2

How to install Octoprint on an Orange Pi Zero 2

Why ?

Let's say you've bought and built a new 3D printer, and started printing stuff like crazy. Yet, you now find very painful to have to remove the SD card each time, insert in the SD card reader, plug on your computer, open Cura or whatever oth...
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Easiest way to make timelapse of your 3D prints

Easy tutorial to create nice timelapses of your 3D prints

Now you have a shiny new 3D printer. You start printing parts at considerable rate and haunting thingiverse for things to make. What about making a magical video of the thing that grows into reality (almost) instantly ?

This tutorial will...
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Sapphire Plus - Assembly Tips (1/4)

So you've decided to buy a Sapphire Plus printer (maybe after reading my review). You've received it and now, you start the puzzle...

Building a Sapphire Plus printer: a good tutorial

Well, the manual includes few pictures and its wording is poor. I'll try my best to list the operations requir...

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MKS Robin Nano35 - Advanced debugging

Advanced debugging of MKS Robin Nano (STM32) board

If you need to debug your printer's firmware, you've probably read my previous post already. If not, I advice you to read it.

This post is about solving the remaining issues and/or shortcomings with the debugging so that a debugging session is...

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Snap Fit calculator

Designing and calculating values for snap fit

Snap fit design are small protuberance of plastic that flexes to clip and maintain two parts together. Computing these designs are difficult because of the numerous parameters to account for.

Here's a calculator that should make computing those easil...
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Sapphire Plus - Upgrade - Installing a BLTouch Sensor

Sapphire Plus 3D printer upgrade : Installing a BLTouch sensor

If you think that manual leveling your bed is a real pain each time you start printing (and particularly if you have a removeable magnetic print bed), then adding a BLTouch sensor will likely save you a ton of times and freedom of mind...
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Installing Neopixel on your 3D printer

Installing RGB leds strip on your 3D printer

This post contains a small tutorial to describe how to install a strip of RGB(W) leds (typically WS2812B) on your printer. If you don't know what a led strip is, it looks like this:

RGB LED strip powered on with rainbow colors

It's a long flexible PCB with many RGBW (red/green/blue/white...

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Errors to avoid while replacing 3D printer hotend

Common error to avoid while choosing and replacing a hotend

If you have followed my previous post, you know how to replace a 3D printer hotend.

Yet, I've made it multiple time and I'm now able to list the common errors to avoid, in the hope it'll save you time and money.

Error 1: Buying the

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Sapphire Plus - Assembly Tips (2/4)

Assembly tips for Sapphire Plus 3D Printer - Step 2

Step 2: Check voltage on the motor drivers VREF

When I received my printer, the current on the motor drivers wasn't set correctly (it was random, I was lucky they didn't burn on first power up).

TMC2208 Pinout A4988 Pinout

The TMC2208 drivers (see picture...

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Sapphire Plus - Assembly Tips (4/4)

Assembly tips for Sapphire Plus 3D Printer - Step 4

Step 6: Installing the belts

I made a mistake when installing the belt, since I haven't measured the provided belt beforehand (I expected to have a lot of margin so I cut the belt for the X motor with 10cm margin and was then short of 3 or 4 cm...
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How to debug Marlin's firmware with a ST-Link V2 probe

Debugging Marlin with ST-Link V2

If you ever used a Marlin Firmware on your 3D printer, it's very likely you or someone else has built the firmware for your printer. However Marlin is a treasure full of features and it's very unlikely you'll get the exact gem you were expecting.

For example,...

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