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Frame-Vertex Mendel has extra holes?

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Josh

Frame-Vertex Mendel has extra holes?
January 18, 2010 08:40PM

I downloaded the Mendel Frame-Vertex_6off.stl file and loaded it into Solidwork. It look great, but has some extra hole in the center. anyone know what they are for?

frame-vertex_6off.JPG

thanks in advance.
cheers,
Josh

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nophead

Re: Frame-Vertex Mendel has extra holes?
January 19, 2010 06:10AM

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I asked the core team the same question and got this answer from Adrian Bowyer: -

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Mostly because they might be useful one day...

But one of the 3mm ones allows a length of filament to be used as a cable support to the X axis.

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Josh Updyke

Re: Frame-Vertex Mendel has extra holes?
January 19, 2010 04:31PM

Well that is cool, I milled a bunch of these and it doesn't take long to have that extra hole in it.

Thank your for the reply.

Josh Updyke

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BodgeIt

Re: Frame-Vertex Mendel has extra holes?
January 21, 2010 07:50PM

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I could not see a use for them as Im lazy I left them out on my plastic corner block version.

With MDF you can always drill it later.

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