Why are 3D printers still stuck on stepper motors? Why haven’t we transitioned to servo motors with encoder feedback for positioning?

Is it just too cost prohibitive for the consumer-level? We would be able to print a lot faster and more accurately if we had position feedback on the axes. Instead we just rely blindly on the stepper not skipping any steps when we tell it to move, hoping for the best.

  • XTL
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    11 months ago

    2 km/s? That’s almost Mach 6.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah that was a typo, obviously that was supposed to say mm/s