Anycubic Mega X Easy DIY Large 3D Printer Enclosure Cover Box with Electronics Overheating Prevention; No 3D Print Parts Needed

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Hello! Through my searching and browsing on 3D Printer enclosures, one thing bother me the most is the lack of an appropriate cover for Anycubic Mega series. The special thing about the Mega series is that their electronics are all neatly compacted at the base, and hence you should never left them inside the heated box to shorten your own machine's life -- Although the base looks nice and comfy, it indeed creates trouble for adding an enclosure. All the common solutions such as Ikea Lack, photo tent and custom acrylics did not cater that well. Besides they never serve larger volume printer like this mega X. To provide dust cover and constant heating in some prints, a cover still seems necessary. One should either tear apart all electronics underneath and move them out, to put a Mega inside a normal enclosure; Or design an enclosure specifically only cover the print area, and left the electronics in air. I don't want to dissemble the nice base. Hence I made this easy to DIY Anycubic Mega X Enclosure with cardboard, plastic and EVA foam for temporary use. Could be upgraded to acrylic in the future. The special features are: 1. Electronics in base are fully exposed to air to allow normal cooling as if there's no enclosure. Only the printing space is enclosed. 2. The path for extruder on right side was hollowed out, as ideally this part is not supposed to be heated too. Air cooling Can prevent tooth getting too hot to cut into filament. The rest are all standard. adding of movable doors, lighting, transparent window, keep clearance for cables etc. No 3D Print Parts Needed in this design as seeing 'you need an enclosure to print ABS/PETG enclosure parts to build the enclosure' is distressing lol. Keep the door open when printing PLA and closed for ABS/PETG. With many holes the indoor temp is kept below 50 celsius degree with closed door so there's no safety hazard in using cardboard. The design dimensions are on the last image. U may need to dig the path a little bit more for bed sensor and y axis wheel movement, which was not considered when drawing the draft. There's one design I found features the same idea as mine, https://evolve3dprint.com/products/mega-enclosure with the base not enclosed as well. But unfortunately, it seems only selling in Malaysia, its too expensive, and its not offering a size for Mega X.