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3D Printing the modified parts

Modified Sensor Housing

  • Download Modified Sensor Housing STL.
  • No supports or anything similar needed.
  • In order for bridging helpers to work correctly, you need to print a layer height of 0.15mm or lower and 3 outer perimeters or more.
  • At that point, infill won't matter and can be pretty low.
  • After printing, remove the two tiny bridges at the end of the module holding up the "lip".

New Tracker Mount

  • Download New Tracker Mount STL.
  • No supports or anything similar needed.
  • In order for bridging helpers to work correctly, you need to print a layer height of 0.2mm or lower.
  • 2-3 perimeters should be enough.
  • Infill doesn't matter.

Two-Material flexible version of the rigid mount

You will need flexible filament for this (duh). For example, this was tested with Fiberlogy Fiberflex 40D.

  • Download the rigid part and the flexible part of the modified rigid mount.
  • There are many guides online on how to print multi material if your printer has only one nozzle and you can look for more detailed instructions for your slicer/printer. However, here's a brief summary:
    • Tell your slicer that your printer has two hot ends (even if it doesn't).
    • Import the two STLs into your slicer, make sure it detects it as two parts of the same object for multi material printing.
    • Set the filaments correctly for the flexible and rigid part.
    • Make sure your printer supports M600 or a similar print pause/filament change G-Code command.
    • Set M600 (or whatever command your printer understands) as the custom Filament Change/Tool Change G-Code. In PrusaSlicer/SuperSlicer, you find this in the Custom G-Code section of your Printer profile. In Cure, there is an Extension called Post Processing that you can use to add a custom G-Code script.
  • Set the layer height to 0.25mm for the bottom 1mm or the entire print. You can set it lower, but then you'll have to change the filament more often.
  • If you have done it correctly, there should only be 4 manual filament changes for the entire print.
  • No supports needed, infill doesn't matter, 2-3 perimeters recommended.
  • Good luck!