Andrew Soderberg
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Why is the Hero Me Gen7 a better printhead solution?
🕑 Added 2023-04-24 10:05:23 +0000 UTCBesides providing the best part cooling possible (see this 45 second video clip).
The Hero Me Gen7 is all about choice and personal preference. If you have been upgrading your 3D printer, you've made choices about what is important to you, Your choices are likely going to be different in some way from everyone else. When choosing a hotend, extruder, and ABL combo (not to mention fans and accelerometers), where are you going to find a printhead platform that will accommodate all your selected components (which could be a rare combo), for you specific 3D printer AND provide you part cooling that gives you great print results, This is what the Hero Me Gen7 is all about!
The Hero Me is a modular platform. Think of it as Lego blocks for printheads. Component specific mounting parts can be interchanged one for one, just like swapping one hotend for another. So, should you change your component selection(s) in the future, you do not have to start over, you simple replace the single STL part that mounts new component on the Hero Me. There is Zero need to have to go looking for a new set of mounting hardware probably from different sources that was not likely to have been designed to work with each other.
For those who think that the Hero Me is heavy, I can see why you think that, but the Hero Me is quite light. A full complement of printed parts (with threaded inserts) for a dual fan, hotend/direct drive configuration, with ABL, ADXL, and LED mounts is just under 87grams. Lighter weight that many stock printhead setups and most other replacement setups. A simple Bowden setup with no ABL, can be as few as just 4-5 printed parts. A fully loaded printhead with hotend, extruder, ABL, dual fans, ADXL345, LED, and wire management is only 12 printed parts (the 87grams I mentioned).
So to give you choice and fulfill you personal preferences in 3D printing, the Hero Me Gen7.3.2 now supports over 98 3D Printer models (plus clones), 46 Hotends, 34 Extruders (over 45 mount options), 17 ABL Sensors (34 mount options), 35 Part Cooling Duct options, 12 Cable Management options, 9 ADXL345 mounts, and 4 LED bar mounts (among many other options). With all these choices, Gen7.3 supports a super crazy 35 BILLION+ possible 3D printer setups! Never fear, the Gen7 library is easy to navigate and select the parts you need for your specific printer setup. To learn more visit the Hero Me Gen7 page on Printables: https://www.printables.com/model/39322
Happy Printing,
Andy
MediaMan3D
Comments
Andrew Soderberg
Thanks, fixed it.
Nikolaj Høgh-Nielsen
i'm not sure whats wrong but i can't see the video?
