Fan Duct for Ultimaker

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Published on February 18, 2012

Description

Fan Duct for the 'original' 50mm Ultimaker fan, with donut-shaped cooling area around the nozzle.

This is a derivative of Geo Hagen's well designed Fan Duct (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:16624) and Owen's great Fan Duct (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:13625)

Printed in PLA, no support or raft needed.

20120219 Added a lower resolution STL file with less polygons.

Instructions

Just print it aligned flat on the fan mounting flange. No support or raft needed. Prints well in PLA, does not melt.

Best to rework the holes with 3.2mm drill (just by hand) to make sure the screws fit nicely.
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Your design fascinated me for a long time. I love the elegent shape. So I just had to adapt it for my Printer. Check out my Remix for Rostock style printers!

Pardon my ignorance, but how would an upgraded fan duct improve my printing? Could I then use a higher nozzle temp, and get smoother faces? Please teach.

I recommend to change internals to make air vortex... Something like Victor Schauberger's devices :)

The design is great. But how do i clean the nozzle? Even during printing? I often get little lumps of plastic I quickly remove while the print starts.

Printed it in Ultra Quality using Netfabb GCode in 5 hours 24 minutes. First try at high speed failed, so i choosed to print at 100%.

Have some imperfections on the upper side of the hole that surrounds the extruder. This is caused by the extreme overhand when printing upside down.

I really like the design compared to the original fan ;)

Going to test it this evening!

Thanks for this awesome thing 8-)

SkeinForge-48 choked on the STL until I ran it through Netfabb and repaired it until it could be repaired no more. Now it slices properly and is printing as I type this.

Sorry - I didn't test with SkeinForge, I used NetFabb. Just uploaded a lower resolution STl file. Hope that does that trick.. ;)

These errors are usually caused by high-poly models. Reduce the model in Meshlab for happier slicing.