Anycubic Kossel top mounted extrudes and spool holders

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So I decided to upgrade my Anycubic Kossel linear plus to a dual extruder and figure out the best way to mount everything. I had no idea how to mount the extruder in the empty space about the hot-end assembly, so I designed the top plate to hold them. This made me think of being able to have a spool of filament on top of each upright. For me this makes it so there is very little travel from the spool to the extruder and hot-end. I know it will make the printer very top heavy but I'm also working on improving the base so everything should be stable. I borrowed some ideas from other creators like the mount arms from Chris Parish (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2822193) and also the spool holder from nurtext (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:454808). The main plate that holds the extruder's and helps to direct the filament to the extruder are all my own design and came from many hours of trying to work out how to use Fusion 360. I'm still working on everything and I don't even have my second extruder yet to test everything, but if anyone has any ideas for improvements or tweaks I could make I am all ears. I tried to make everything work with M3 screws and nuts but I still need to test which sizes will work best. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE 1 (Images are the top plate v3 after the tube guides snapped off) I added two new top plates, both of which have had 4mm taken off the bottom because it really didn't need to be that thick. The v4 plate also has some more reinforcement around the tube guides since after printing mine snapped off in clean up. The V5 plate has the tube guides removed completely and I made the tube holder to replace them. The tube holder simply goes into the center most set of holes that are used to mount the stepper motor mount, just needing longer screws to pass through to the stepper motor mount. FINAL UPDATE I no longer have my Anycubic printer so can no longer do any updates for this project. I added the last few things I was working on before I got rid of the printer alongside the master files I still had on hand from Fusion 360. If anyone wants to pick up the project or take it to work on themselves, I am 100% okay with that.