Those who are lucky enough to have a 3D printer at home will already know how difficult or rather how tedious it can be to remove the printed figure from the bed of our 3D printer. But this has its days numbered. The folks at MattersHackers have come up with a curious method to remove printed parts in a quick and graceful way, without having to use a putty knife. This method involves installing the Punch Out! who will remove the pieces for us.
As you can see, Punch Out! consists of a plastic fist with a gear that launches it and rips the piece off the 3D printer bed . Punch Out! is made of PLA, so we can create it using our 3D printer, and we'll only need a servo motor to give it the necessary power to function.
Punch Out! will make us remove bad parts quickly
MatterHackers has also managed to connect it to some 3D printers so that after finishing the printing we can set a timer so that once dry, the part is expelled from the hot bed of the 3D printer. The printed pieces of Punch Out! They are small and their printing does not require a large amount of PLA or excessive time, the piece that takes the longest to make is 30 minutes.
Of course, Punch Out! is a fun accessory, not essential, but one that many will surely want to use and build for their 3D printer. For those curious, MattersHackers has a construction guide on this website , with fully downloadable designs.
Personally, I do not know to what extent it is a safe system for our printed pieces, possibly for those that are well built, such a method is harmful, however for bad pieces, I think Punch Out! is a good method, since if the part comes out wrong, having to remove it is somewhat annoying, but with Punch Out! it could even be fun, don't you think?