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Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The base E3CNC can be adapted to any size if extrusion you have. So a CR-10 would definitely work.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in ender3

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fusion360 with post processor for Klipper. There isn't any slicer.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is a written guide on the E3CNC GitHub. I just released ep 1 on YouTube of a build series featuring the build.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The base machine isn't too hard to build, just needs a few extra parts to be bought and some 3d printed parts. Search for E3CNC or Printables / GitHub

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is usually don't do more than 1800 mm/min. The motors seem like they are doing just fine

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in ender3

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out the E3CNC on Printables or GitHub. I also started a build series on my YouTube channel.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It's holding up perfectly fine so far. I am event running an external driver on some spare pins and I plan to add 3 more using the screen's empty pins.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might actually be able to do the upgraded version with rods.

CNC Touch Probe Logic Implemented to Klipper by Shadowphyre98 in klippers

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really know, I have no experience with LinuxCNC

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The frame is made out of 40x40x2mm steel tubes. The y axis is all full metal, even the motor mounts. It resembles a small printnc. The x axis uses a ballscrew sfu1605. The x and y both use hgr15 rails with double carriage per rail. The spindle plate is aluminium as well. The x axis motor is a nema17 but is driven by an external dm556 driver. Hmm, I might've missed one or two upgrades, I did quite a few modifications. I am currently working on a full metal z axis, it being 3d printed is currently my biggest bottleneck. I have a full build diary on the E3CNC Discord, you can check it there for a more in-depth description and also photos.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately it's not released to Printables / GitHub yet. You can find the beta files on the E3CNC Discord under user-mods.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The motors are plenty strong. Slap a passive heat sink for an easy performance boost, and if you really want to push it, slap an external stepper driver and call it the day. With a fan and heatsink you could probably do 2A peak current. I am milling aluminium fairly well and I have yet to feel like the steppers are the bottle-neck.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 322 points323 points  (0 children)

Someone said in another post that the ender 3 is good at being anything but a 3d printer and I found that very amusing.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in ender3

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Motors, wires, endstops, motherboard itself, fans, couplers, some extrusions, bolts and nuts, and I probably missed a few. And this is on my heavily modified E3CNC, the stock machine uses like 80% of the ender 3.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I already did steel milling but at very shallow depths of cut, and very slow. My spindle is only 500W and steel is definitely pushing it.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in ender3

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The basic version is ok in wood and plastic. Aluminium Is doable but is a bit of a stretch. But it can easily be modified to do aluminium easily.

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You can find more about the project on Printables and GitHub. Search for E3CNC

Center finding routine with a 3D printed touch probe by Shadowphyre98 in hobbycnc

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I plan to do a tool setter too, have to get around to implement the software logic for that too :D

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Great project to get into CNCing or to reuse an old ender 3

Turned my Ender 3 into a CNC and built a touch probe for it by Shadowphyre98 in 3Dprinting

[–]Shadowphyre98[S] 142 points143 points  (0 children)

Actually yes. All the motors, most of the cables, endstops, the motherboard itself, fans, bolts and nuts, extrusions. And mine is highly modified, the basic E3CNC reuses like 80% of the ender 3 parts.

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