Ender3 Vinyl Cutter (Incl. Universal Mount)

thingiverse

Recently decided to create my own Vinyl Decals, after spending several hours designing and purchasing $13 worth of materials. The outcome was an all-around excellent starter drag knife system. Personally made some fantastic stickers that are perfect for those small detail areas where a conventional craft knife would struggle. There are already a couple of other designs for the Ender3 available online, but I wanted something that would be easy to remove and upgrade. Due to this reason, it's based around an interchangeable mount. In short, a piece of plastic with some mounting points... Having such a system allows for new mounts for other use cases to be easily attached without spending hours trying to come up with a different place to mount it. As the entire point of this project is to streamline the experience of adding new mounts, the files will, of course, be completely open-source, and the STP file is published on the page under "files." I've used brass M3 inserts to preserve the threads for a longer period. The holes in the design are 4mm, so you could substitute the inserts with a simple M4 bolt if needed. Just as a side note, I would strongly advise beginners in vinyl cutting and calibration to go my route and buy an A3 cutting mat and chop it down to the print bed size. This will prevent any scratches on the bed as well as prolonging the blade life. Lastly... As Thingiverse dramatically decreases image size and detail, I will link below a link for the full-size images for a better look. https://imgur.com/a/Ymr2vvL A quick example of a decal recently cut, (which took less than 20 seconds for the process to complete), is shown below: <img src="https://i.imgur.com/uKsPx20.jpg" />