Manufacturing Technology 2023, 23(2):177-185 | DOI: 10.21062/mft.2023.032

Design of Dual-Head 3D Printer

Vlastimil Chalupa ORCID..., Michal Stanek ORCID..., Jiĝí Vanek ORCID..., Jan Strnad ORCID..., Martin Ovsik ORCID...
Faculty of Technology, Tomas Bata University in Zlin. Vavreèkova 5669, 760 01 Zlin, Czech Republic

Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) printers are usually designed to create a product with one single ma-terial. Some of them allow fabricate items in multiple colours but creating a single product consisting of two different materials remains an advantage of industrial 3D printers only. The aim of this research was to develop a design of a device with two printheads which enables to print products with two different materials, compatible with a cheap and commonly available FFF device Prusa i3MK2S, and the subse-quent production of a prototype. A key aspect of the design was the hardware compatibility of the device with the given printer while maintaining the maximum possible printing area.

Keywords: dual extrusion, mulit-material 3D print, FFF printer
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This work was supported by the Internal Grant Agency of TBU in Zlin: no. IGA/FT/2023/005

Received: December 28, 2022; Revised: April 21, 2023; Accepted: April 21, 2023; Prepublished online: April 25, 2023; Published: May 4, 2023  Show citation

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Chalupa V, Stanek M, Vanek J, Strnad J, Ovsik M. Design of Dual-Head 3D Printer. Manufacturing Technology. 2023;23(2):177-185. doi: 10.21062/mft.2023.032.
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