Any news on Rostock Max V3?

[DavidAnderson]

I've seen a couple of mentions regarding a Rostock Max V3 in the past 6 months. What is the current status?

I've tried to search the forum and such, but words as short as 'v3' seem to always be ignored. So sorry if the info is already out there and I have missed it.

Thanks for any info you can provide!

- David.

[Jimustanguitar]

Maybe JJ or someone working on R&D can share some official news.

Most of the things I've seen are changes that have already been rolled into the currently shipping V2's. Ball and socket arms, injection molded carriages, dedicated power supply, etc. Some other design tweaks have been thrown around like floating the heated bed instead of screwing it down (like the Eris) and possibly mounting all of the electronics up top instead of down below, etc. They've also got the new hotend and accelerometer, a new Rambo is in the works, new construction materials evaluation, etc.

I'd imagine that after the Bay Area Maker Faire where they're officially releasing the Eris and new DropLit, they'll be able to put more time into the V3.

[Xenocrates]

I think they announced that the V3 was also being showed at the bay area fair. That is what the email on april 29 says. So it may be that it's already done (I know one prototype was out in the wild already, although it was an early one), and that Part-daddy largely delegated it.

I think the V3 will have some really interesting features, but not a lot we don't already know about, and nothing that can't be backported.

New thing I think we'll see on the V3:
All metal hotend: we already know that the Eris has one, and that Part-daddy was working on the Rostock version of it's board and mount. IIRC, it's called the H280 or something along that line.

Modified bed attachment: The V3 prototype used Eris style clips to hold at least the glass on. They may either recess the heated bed (Like the eris, which will also keep crap out from under it), or use pylons to raise the clips, unless they have a different set of molds for the V3 clips than the Eris. I would personally like to see them move to a somewhat recessed bed, as well as slotting the holes on the Onyx, such that it can expand and contract somewhat, which should address two issues that exist. (And with the new shorter power supply, they have some more vertical room for that, if they tip the Rambo back more)

Acceloremeter probing: We know that a Rostock version is in the works, and that it's already working on the Eris. We also know that it will work on current gen RAMBO boards, since it works with a normal mini-rambo.

More angular: The prototype, again, had a more angular, truncated triangle form factor, and less of the curves. This is not anything but speculation, but it seems that SeemeCNC's aesthetic has been moving in that direction, and it's not a huge change (And eliminating those annoying bent panels would be nice)

Top/bottom agnostic design: Guano and Geneb discussed it here a while ago. The documentation will cover building it with the electronics up top, but you can (Or at least could at the time the thread was around) build it either way. http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php ... ver#p87640

Beyond that, I don't really know.