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
