I keep seeing people agonize over whether CC1 Canvas is "worth it" because it means you can't enclose the top of your printer anymore, and therefore you'll never be able to print Nylon/ABS/PC again, and therefore your printer is now a dedicated PLA toy, and therefore Elegoo has betrayed you personally.
I need everyone to take a deep breath.
You can take it off.
I know. Revolutionary. The bolts that hold it on? They also come out. The Bowden tubes? They disconnect. The spool holders are screwed into the extrusions. With screws. That unscrew.
It's 10 minutes. You will spend longer slicing your model. You will spend longer leveling your bed. You will spend longer complaining about it on this subreddit than it takes to just move the thing.
You are a person who owns a 3D printer. You have, presumably, at some point, assembled or modified something. You are telling me that you can design a functional part in CAD, dial in pressure advance, tune your input shaper, but the idea of temporarily removing four thumb screws is where you draw the line?
Somebody on nexprint has already designed an enclosure.
https://www.nexprint.com/en/models/G2832668?printConfigId=G9597212
Some other options, for the overwhelmed:
- Take Canvas off. Put your top panel back on. Print your Nylon. Put Canvas back on when you want to print a multicolor Benchy. Total time: less than a cup of coffee.
- Wall mount the Canvas. Leave the printer top permanently closed. Run tubes to the back (make/get extensions if you need). I have an AMS Lite on the wall right now. It's not rocket science.
- Make a plywood panel that covers the remaining top gap around the Canvas. Paint it black. Takes 30 minutes and $4 at the hardware store.
- Do literally anything other than posting "idk if it's worth it" for the 47th time.
There are definitely ways around this 'limitation'. Maybe I'll get mine and find out there is some inherent firmware limitations that requires the relative physical positions as is, but I suspect not, and if it were the case, G-Code edits can work wonders.
We are MAKERS. We make THINGS. We have 3D printers that MAKE things that solve problems EXACTLY like this. The call is coming from inside the house.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
*yes I know not everyone is comfortable modding their printer. That's fine. But if that's you, multicolor ABS probably wasn't in your weekend plans anyway.*