My build is based on many different builds but pieced together into a unit specifically to suit my needs. The footprint, without motors, is around 500mm x 1000mm with a gantry height of around 250mm. I used a combination of C-Beam, for the linear transmission, and V-Slot for the base and gantry supports. Forged angle connectors were used for attachment and I utilized the C-Beam gantry cart kits with anti-backlash blocks for both Y axes, the X axis, and Z axis.

First build of a Lead 1515!

Build Start to begin Feb 1st.

This 3d printer framework was designed for use with the ceraStruder clay 3D printing extruder. More info coming soon.

This unit is made with openbuild v-rail and c-beam. using direct drive with lead screws. Nema23 motors

Using most of the parts of the MiniMill, and adding a few other parts (cost < $200), transforms the MiniMill into a very capable machine. Final build area as shown is 10.25" x 16". With a custom Y-plate, I will take it to 10.25" x 20-24".

1000mm x 1000mm C-Beam XXL CNC with external drivers and high torque Nema 23 motors, 2.2KW Spindle with VFD.

more to come, please follow along the journey!

This is a Dual X-axis platform.

I have been looking for a good solid kit to build off of for some time and when I saw the Ox buildlog I knew I had to have one. Ordered most of the pieces from Open Builds and started planning. Had a nice gentleman named Chris cut the required plates from 6061 aluminum for me (he sells them on eBay now if you're interested) and got to work.

How i construct and create my DIY Co2 Laser cutter and engraving mashine. details will follow

Here's my Sphinx with a few slight modifications.

This is my first attempt at building my own 3d printer.

C-beam machine mods.

pictures and mony doku see later

A fully aluminium printer made from off the shelf components, no printed parts.

Inspired by previous Sphinx builds by Sorin (w/ MGN Rails) and Kenneth's witthuhnCNC XKLBR-1S. I wanted to create a desktop unit that kept a minimal profile and neatly contained the PS, Controller, and all wiring, making it a singular unit that could be easily transportable (as it will be doing double duty at my home and at work)

Cut Area: 825 x 1340. Max Cutting depth: 2 inches. Arduino based control with Nema 23 and Nema 17 drive. 8mm leadscrew and 2GT belt drive. 400W 48V quite cut spindle.

My very first CNC Router build. It's completely scratch built.

wooden parts of the enclosure can be removed easily used the existing extraction of my glass bead burners

Turning my prototypes into real objects, it will be required a great amount of drawings, A LOT. Therefore, against the ink costs raise price push me to think in a way to draw models, blueprints, etc. at very, VERY low cost. This is where my DrawBot was born

I need a large build plate without spending 10-20k for a "store" built printer.

CNC Based on CBeam, with No custom Plates, and Z GANTRY

The SMW3D OX, original other than a lot of learning!

Fully welded, fixed gantry CNC router, with chinese linear motion parts, in progress

150x75 cm OX with additional Y axis supports and hopefully a working double belt system

Building the OB Lead 1515 was straight forward. The on-line OpenBuilds assembly videos were extremely clear and easy to follow. Initial build of this machine is with OpenBuilds BlackBox which simplified getting the electronics to work the first time. OpenBuilds staff are friendly and helpful.

DIY Pano Head

I am satisfied with my build and next one will be even better.

OX CNC built using the kit from SMW3D with a Smoothieboard 5 and external motor drivers.

IIOT WiFi Plasma CNC.

A home-made CNC-machine with a 1.5 kW air cooled spindle motor suitable for milling materials such as wood, plastic and soft metals. The work table is 650 mm wide by 700 mm deep and the maximum movement is set to 560 mm for the x-axis, 480 mm for the y-axis and 105 mm for the z-axis.

A Rigid Delta Printer using C-Beam screw actuators

Delta printer, Bed size 280 cm dimeter Print Height 300 cm not tested yet the speed

This is the story of my experience building a 1000 x 750mm OOZNest OX CNC router

i always make laser cutting machine, but when i see openbuilds, this can make more cheap gantry for make laser cutting.

a 1000mm x 1500mm CBeam build with hgr20 hiwin rails 600w er16 spindle

The COTSPnP pick-and-place machine (PnP) is used to place surface-mount devices (SMDs) onto a printed circuit board and was designed and built exclusively from off-the-shelf (COTS) components, predominantly sourced from OpenBuilds and Actobotics. Its intended use is prototyping and not high rate, high volume production and is capable of precisely placing parts as small as 0402 capacitors and resistors but more importantly, can precisely place components with lead spacing as small a 0.4mm.

Mini Additive Manufacturing Printer by Chris Scholl

Getting an accurate scan of a golf ball can be difficult with general-purpose 3D scanners. This purpose-built golf ball scanner uses a very accurate Keyence LK-081 laser displacement sensor with an Open Builds linear actuator for the vertical axis and a Sherline CNC rotary table for the turntable. Scan detail is determined by the sample step size and can be set arbitrarily based on desired scan time.

This is my build for an ACRO system with a custom z-axis for changing z height for focusing or for adjusting depth when making multiple passes when cutting.

Simple steel tube design Plasma water table

Tough 3D Printer using OpenBuilds Parts!

A Rod-type Linear Actuator based on the 40x40 V-slot profile

Super solid core xy build inspired by the e3d tool changer

A simple low cost rotomolder.

Major rebuild of my Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus.

I built a motion control camera slider with the V-Slot® NEMA 17 Linear Actuator Bundle (Belt Driven)

Berrybot inspired delta 3d printer with a few other tweaks and modifications.

In short...this was a fun project.

A short summary of my Workbee CNC Build. I try to update it where I can

Belt driven 3-axis linear system for high precision and low costs. > Threading and linear real cutting needed

XDrive 3d printer, high quality large build volume.

Two plus years in the making, I finally have a working ACRO 510 laser engraver system complete with enclosure and air filtration.

Square shaped OX for doing general purpose engraving and cutting into wood, acrylic, and aluminum.

We created an A1 ACRO Drawing robot specifically for the artist communities. It utilizes the popular ISO 'A series' paper sizes standards

Portable, high-speed, low-cost advanced multi-tool desktop factory derived from LulzBot Taz and TazMega.

How to modularize the 3D Systems Cube 3 extruder nozzle.

Video diary C-Beam XL build with massive steppers and a 1.5kW Chinese spindle.

Started with a Rigidbot Big Added a single flat glass bed Used a Smoothieboard clone driving DRV8825

Watercooled 3D printer

My first openbuilds submission, plain old c-beam machine. Seems like I've spent more time fighting the forum here redirecting in circles than actually building the machine. I'll try to add more pics if I ever find a path out of this corn maze...

My first printer! I went for a simple cartesian design, based on evilc66 one. It uses 1000 mm C-beam linear actuators. The build volume is 700x700x700 mm^3.

Wanna quet an nice looking device done by my hands

Not completed yet but it does work, I will be changing small things as I finish the build and I have learned a lot from this build I am looking forward to finishing this one and Building another maybe larger table.

Custom build, after building the prusa i3 and upgrading to i3v, I wanted to build something more sturdy that can print fast and more accurate. Model is built in Fusion 360

Very stout 2'x4' machine with a deep Z axis

Aluminum-framed enclosure for TAZ 6 3d Printer made with Makerlink.

This is based on core XY kinematics. First of all, we designed a CAD model. Most of the required parts are designed by us in solidworks software, and some parts are downloaded from a web platform ‘grabcad’. After that we assembled those parts and inspected them in solidworks. The designed CAD models are frame of 470mmX392mmX545mm SBR linear guide rod, linear guide holder, lead screw, motor mounts, pulley, bed mount, idler block, timing belt clamper.

Simple enclosure for the OB Minimill

The 3D printer will be able to print 2x2x2m components and not just in PLA or ABS. It's not just a DIY printer but I'm trying to apply engineering formulas to make it. I'm going to apply the state of art for 3D printing and scannering existing.

Open source 3D printer with very powerful heated bed and light weight x axis design. Full source repository can be found here: https://github.com/a-drizzle/Printer1

Theoretical Working Area: 360x360x75mm Actual Working Area: 300x300x75mm Will Update Later

Fixed Gantry CNC with good accuracy and rigidity but for a higher price than the usual CNC's on the site.

A little project for a rainy day which some, like me, may find useful.

This is the adult version of the QU-BD juvenile known as their OneUp. It not only uses extrusion framing instead of press board MDF, it is a full sized 8x8 build area w/ABS-Nylon capability. Only the OneUp's single Z axis driver concept is similar. I'm tempted to call it OneUpAdult for marketing.

T-slot, v-slot, aluminum angle make up the majority of the structure.

A small build using some small vslot scrap piece which shows the versatlity of the v-slot system

This is a small desktop CNC inspired by the Mini OX project. It's designed with the nema 17 motors in mind. It's a 650mm x 500mm machine that it will be used to mill cast acrlic.

This is a major redesign to the Z-axis of an otherwise stock Shapeoko 2.

I know this build is a little off category here at OB, but I wanted to share it with the community (as well as other coffee lovers) and show however vast the possibilities are when OB hardware is involved. This is a powered stand intended to operate a manual coffee grinder. It is compact, light, portable and uses simple drive components (B&D Cordless Screwdriver). I will post two version, V-1 (Beginner skill level ) and V-2 (Intermediate skill level). Both accomplish the same results.

This is my interpretation of the OB Minimill, what I've changed so far, and what may continue to change as my requirements change.

My goals for this build were to eliminate slop and flex while also allowing easy serviceability.

Stabilus 3d Large Format Printer Kit

Lord willing I will be showing you how build a robust and easy to build 3D printer framework using V-Slot rails and rollers. It's a little bulky, but it has all spring tensioned rollers on all axes, and can be built entirely without custom machining on any parts. You will need digital calipers, a drill press, a carbide toothed miter saw for cutting aluminum extrusions, and lots of little screws!

Small CNC - made with some custom lasercut+bent sheetmetal parts + Openbuilds V Slot

This is a Sphinx variation, aimed to minimize footprint and maximize workarea. Work in progress.

This Project is meant to teach introductory robotics and arduino styled micro-controllers to HS and MS students.

I will write a short buildlog here with mostly pictures. I designed this lasercutter in solidworks(not totally finished) for a good overview and such that the steel tubes could be lasercut by a company, the metal frame is based on the lasercutter the KÄSER, which you can find on cnczone.nl. The mechical parts are designed by myself because I had no mill to my use, so the mechnical parts are lasercut(same company as tube) steelplates welded together.

OpenBuilds CNC 500x500

1500 x 1500 mm OpenBuild CNC

This is a cnc router with 3 axis and a kress 1050 motor. Its 140x120cm and a homebuild with your help!

Micro Ox Build

All metal frame 500mm bed Delta 3D printer

Not much to say... Soundproofing box for noisy works... Build in MDF and 20 mm plexiglas. Very effective!!!

C-Beam XL with v-slot aluminum bed for fixturing.

This project is focused on developing a low-cost, portable and open-source FDM 3D Printer.

The first criteria was portability, the second was cutting out a sheet of ply, the third was the ability to shape a foam surfboard blank, but the main criteria was a small budget.

It startet in May with some leftovers from a cnc router build. Now in the middle of December its 99% finish. Everything is lowcost, spend about 1600$ so far.

just wanted to share my build of a huge 3d printer. It stands just over 2 meters tall and has a total print area of around 850mm x 850mm.