HICTOP Legendary Mount (E3D Cyclops & Chimera)

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Behold the most legendary of extruder mounts for the HICTOP 3DP family of 3D printers, powered by the greatness of the E3D Cyclops & Chimera Dual Extrusion System, bringing multi-material printing to the HICTOP 3DP family printers in a whole new way. Inspired by Tech2C's E3Dv6 Bowden X-carriage mount v2 for Prusa i3, this mount provides a clean, simple, and expandable means of adding multi-material printing to your printer. In addition to the carriage itself, I've also included attachments for the BLTouch probe, 12mm and 18mm inductive and capacitive probes, and a cable chain adapter for DarkDragonWing's awesome cable chain setup. I've also included a coupler plate that optionally allows the use of PC4-M10 push-in fittings in place of the embedded couplers in the Cyclops & Chimera heatsink. The design utilizes existing M4 screws for pillow blocks, but requires two additional M4x8 screws for bottom attachments normally unused on standard HICTOP carriages. The fan duct is attached with M3x6 screws, blower fan with M3x20 screws, and probe mounts and cable chain mount with M3x10 screws. M3 nuts are needed for the probe mount, cable chain mount, and to attach standard HICTOP X belt holder. The E3D hotend is attached with M3x8 screws if not using the coupler plate, or M3x12 screws if the coupler plate is used. The E3D Cyclops & Chimera requires conversion to a Bowden feed setup, and E3D recommends a geared extruder for the Cyclops. I've had good luck with VanessaEzekowitz's Greg's B'Wadestruder (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1831961). Your printer will require new firmware in order to utilize the E3D Cyclops & Chimera. Example configurations for HICTOP 3DP-11 modified into this configuration can be viewed at https://github.com/tcm0116/Marlin/tree/cyclops and https://github.com/tcm0116/Marlin/tree/chimera. Please don't hesitate to ask questions in the comments if needed, enjoy!