This is the Vision Miner 22 IDEX - a high performance,
high temperature extrusion 3d printer it's got some features that set it apart from every other machine on the market
for years now we've been printing parts every single day in the shop and after partnering with a European Manufacturer
we've taken all the features that we wanted - everything we learned from printing day in and day out
for companies like NASA, Northrop Grumman, Medical, Oil and Gas companies and countless others
all that experience has been put into this machine as a starting point for the future of our extrusion 3d printers
This machine is not only capable of printing high temp
materials like PEEK and ULTEM, but it's a fully open material system -- you're not locked down to
any brands or processes, so if you want to do large carbon fiber Nylon parts or huge ABS parts or
Polycarbonate or high-temp materials like PEKK and Polysulfone, you can totally do that and on top of
all that the machine itself is using open hardware from the Duet 2 board to the RepRap firmware
we wanted to make this as extensible as possible for the power users so let me give you the basic
specs and then we'll get into the juicy details
We've got 500°C nozzles on independent dual extruders
a 200°C bed a 90°C actively heated chamber triple z-axis motors for true bed leveling
it's manufactured in Europe and there's a ton of other cool things so let's get right into the details
For the hotend and extruder, it is the 22 idex, and as the name implies it uses two
independent extruders. Both nozzles quickly get up to 500°C so you can print two parts at
once in any material you want it's a fully open material system as we said so you can basically
put almost any 1.75 millimeter filament from PLA to PEEK to ULTEM to cf nylon you name it so a
little more dual independent extruders the cheaper way to do dual extrusion is having the nozzles
on one head right next to each other which is basically 90 of the dual extruders on the market
now this can be good because it's cheaper it's more accessible even though often you still need
lifting nozzles for a decent setup but it works despite some drawbacks like using support material
all of your part while it's printing on the other nozzle with independent extruders that's never an
issue idex really comes with a lot of advantages firstly you've got the options for duplicate
mode and mirror mode you're almost buying two machines for the price of one if you're printing
a bunch of smaller parts on both hot ends at the same time i mean that's huge for production or
even mass production because it literally doubles your throughput instantly you can either print two
of the same part or you can mirror one part and get opposite parts produced at the exact same time
you've also got multi-material mode which can be used for different colors
different nozzle sizes different materials like if you want to do htn cf-25 and an outer shell of
regular nylon so you get the rigid core with a slick outer shell or maybe you want to make
embedded hinges using TPU and ASA or polypropylene and pla there's literally unlimited possibilities
you can also use them for support materials whether breakaway or soluble supports which allows
for printing of previously impossible geometries like a suspended object inside of a sphere that's
not connected to anything as for the hot ends themselves we're currently using volcano style
hot ends with copper heat blocks and titanium heat breaks because they're industry proven designs and
they allow for easy maintenance and extremely wide parts availability the extruder itself is
direct drive meaning the drive gear is close to the hot end and it's using a dual gear design for
extra grip strength uh so if you've got slippery materials or flexibles you're good to go next
we've got the bed and the chamber the bed itself can reach 200°C on 110 volt in about 10 minutes
if you're using that temperature chances are you're using the heated chamber too, waiting for all
the metal to reach equilibrium which takes about 20-30 minutes for the first preheat of the day
let's talk about the really cool part the triple z motor system for true bed leveling and yes
it's got mesh leveling too but instead of having manual bed leveling screws we got rid of that we
made it obsolete because the actual z-axis motors do all of the work for you if you've ever printed
in high temperatures you know how annoying it can be to reach in and grab some super hot knobs to
level your bed we've always joked about if you don't have any burns you don't print a high temp
well that's probably not going to apply anymore now the mesh leveling itself on top of that
starts you know ships with the standard 16 points but you can easily change the spacing
right there on the machine interface so you do 144 points or virtually as many points as you want now
this system is also future proofing for features like non-planar printing software is still being
developed for all that but when it's available the capabilities of this machine will be even
greater now as a note this does take g-code so if you wanted to use master cam it's possible and
yes for the power users out there we integrated z offset baby stepping right into the main interface
so you can always get that perfect first layer now onto the chamber which is actively heated up to 90°C
and this is totally critical for printing high temperature materials and especially useful
for larger parts than standard materials like ABS Nylon or Polycarbonate now you may notice we're
not actually using insulation yet the thickness of the steel and even this glass front door holds
90°C with ease and as time goes on we've already got upgrades in the works for insulation
and higher chamber temperatures on that note we do plan to offer all upgrades for this machine
as the release so you won't be left in the dust when new features come out and you'll be able to
upgrade the machine yourself now one thing that's plagued high temperature polymers for the last few
years is filament absorbing moisture they all do it and it's no fun you start a 27 hour print in
ULTEM and then it degrades after 12 hours due to moisture absorption it's no good
In the 22 IDEX, though, your filament goes inside the heated chamber which stays dry due to the heating system
so you can do longer prints than ever before this also applies to nylon polycarb even petg or
soluble materials like PVA, Aquasys, or Aquatek. Now let's talk about the motion system in the electronics
the full gantry system is running on quality HIWIN linear rails, essential for high speed, high accuracy motion
on top of that we're using 12 millimeter ultra wide gates belts made from
kevlar for more reliability durability less calibration and more speed
the XY axis is powered by a quad motor system - four motors power the entire gantry and the design allows for much
shorter belts than in a core xy machine. they're all mounted outside of the heated build chamber
in the back here too so you don't have to worry about the heat wearing them down over time now
all this together enables a current max print speed print speed of 500 millimeters a second
with a standard stock speed of 300 millimeters per second -- and yes, I know, that sounds crazy but it's true
the stock settings that we ship for basic materials in this machine come at 300
millimeters per second and it's reliable -- we've printed up to 500 millimeters per second but in
general 300 millimeters a second is our baseline of course with different materials, high temps, low
temps, you'll be printing at a variety of speeds, as usual, so just know that that's the tested reliable
speed of movement, not necessarily what you want to be printing at, depending on the material
now another cool feature about the way the xy is designed is it's self squaring -- self squaring self
self-leveling this thing just keeps getting better and better theoretically it's
accurate down to 10 microns on the X and the Y and 7 microns on the Z but remember it's
a round nozzle and you're generally not going to print any lower layer heights than .05 millimeters
or 50 microns even though you absolutely could and can, just generally not practical
or even necessary for filament printing just based on the difficulties and limits of extruding
plastic through a tiny little nozzle even with stock settings parts are almost always within
5 thousandths of an inch tolerance regardless. let's get into the electronics -- this machine is
version comes with full Duet web control, so you can use it on anything with a web browser: a PC, a
Mac, Linux machine, smartphone, tablet or pretty much anything else it's even got the ability to use
voice commands but more on that later make sure you subscribe to see that video come out
in fact, if you hadn't noticed already, there's no tiny little screen on this printer because you really
don't need one -chances are you've already got a web-enabled smartphone in your pocket and you're
watching this video on a web connected computer so right there you've already got two options
imagine opening a new tab right now controlling the printer while you watch this video -- it may seem crazy
but in reality most screens on printers are small hard to use super limited in space
and there's about 87 windows for all the different functions. On the 22 IDEX system, you get everything in one place
and more options than ever before plus if a screen fails, the printer is rendered temporarily useless
so we basically just made it obsolete as far as power requirements go the machine
ships with standard 110 volt so you can plug it in just about anywhere and we do recommend a 20 amp breaker
the power supplies are high quality meanwhile brand, and all the wiring is manufactured
in Germany. It's also using high quality SSRs, terminals, and other safety features found on
most high temp industrial printers these days now when you back all of this with american support
right here in the USA from Vision Miner and our technical partners at a price like this well
you're ready to get into production like never before finally you can get a quality built machine
with all high end components at a price point that absolutely destroys everything else on the market
if you want to get one in your shop today just reach out to us directly or head over to the
website make sure you're subscribed here so you'll see when all the new videos that we're putting out
demystifying and detailing the capabilities and the functionality of this machine and while you're
here let me know in the comments below what would you print first with this machine in your shop
what would you do with the dual nozzles any crazy material experiments you're wanting to try out
frankly I'm really excited to do a lot more stuff with center cores and outer shells on in different
materials to get like slick properties with rigid core I'm super stoked to be putting out more
content on that all in all the feedback from all you guys has been incredible thank you so
much for the support the comments the emails the calls the feedback we really truly appreciate it
and we're super stoked to be bringing you guys a machine like this now you can get your own machine
today at visionminer.com/22IDEX or shoot us an email (contact@visionminer.com) or give us a call - we're here to help you
answer your questions and get you up and running as quickly as possible
thanks so much for watching, have a positive rest of your day, and we'll see you in the next video