@@ -311,3 +311,10 @@ There is a general design for how this will work:
As we can see from the picture above, the initial design suffers too much under torsion. I tried three different changes and submitted them through a FEA test, and the last one proved much better, improving performance by about 85% by adding a third bar at 45 degree angle to horizontal. As we can see from the stress test, the stress is much more evenly distributed this way as opposed to being concentrated on where the carriage is. Now I must redesign x axis to incorporate this somehow.
It's nice, I think I can reuse most components and only swap out the middle angled brackets and run the bar between them. Let's test it out.
It's really bad, it jiggles wayy too much. I'm talking about 3mm with barely a tap, and ~20mm with some force.
This is going to require quite a bit of redo on x-axis. I will move to Jake's beamish design with a closed beam around it.
