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<JordanBrown1> J25K58, teepee, Scopeuk: do any of you know how the INDX design actually pushes the filament? Is there an extrusion motor on each head?
<J25K58> JordanBrown1 the gears from the extruder grab onto the filament within the nozzle
<JordanBrown1> Is that a picture of the head, or of the (one?) extruder-motor widget?
<JordanBrown1> So the individual head has no motor, and has filament sticking out of it, and as part of docking the bigger head clamps onto that filament?
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<J25K97> JordanBrown1 imagine a tube that has a Taille where those gears interlock
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<JordanBrown1> I don't know what a Taille is.
<J25K97> waist
<JordanBrown1> But looking at that picture, it looks like the main head grabs the filament in that cm or so that it's open in the middle of the little head.
<JordanBrown1> That makes sense. Of course it means some additional mechanism to automatically open and close that clamp.
<J25K97> it is what the filament path on every extruder looks like .. just to move out
<JordanBrown1> My extruder has a clamp with a spring and a lever to open it, but doesn't have an electromechanical way to open it.
<JordanBrown1> (And, mostly, it seems like it doesn't even need what it has... I use that lever approximately never.)
<JordanBrown1> Anyhow, makes sense, thanks.
<J25K97> not sure how they solved it but i assume the nozzle is just moving "the lever" when in
<JordanBrown1> Ah, indeed, it doesn't need to be a separate electromechanical device; it could just be that docking lets the clamp clamp and undocking unclamps it.
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<gbruno> [github] mrufsvold opened issue #6443 (ERROR: The given mesh is not closed! Unable to convert to CGALNefGeometry) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/6443