Dismountable 3D printer enclosure

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This is a dismountable 3D printer enclosure I built specially for my E3D BigBox printer, but you can adapt it easily for any other size printer. It can be disassembled and stored when not in use. The principle is simple; the case is built with square (and hollow) aluminum tubes connected with 3D printed corner pieces. In every corner piece (except for the roof), I glued a small (10x10x4 mm) neodymium magnet (see the pictures), making it very easy to dismantle or rebuild the case. The whole enclosure can be built-up within a minute. The side perspex panels are mounted with magnets so they can be taken off in case you need to access the printer for maintenance. You can place a 80mm fan in order to regulate the temperature, but I found that the temperature hardly comes higher than 35°C, even when printing with the heated bed at 120°C. Printing filament used: PLA and Taulman Alloy 910 Print settings. I printed the corner pieces and the hinges with Taulman Alloy 910. You can try another material, but Taulman did the job for me. Don't use PLA since it is too brittle ! I printed the corner pieces horizontal with raft and support, just to be sure that the pieces were 100% straight, because Alloy 910 did tend to warp a little on my PEI bed. Infill was at 20%. The parts fit tightly in the aluminum profiles, I had to hammer them in. Don't hammer directly on the pieces, but use for example a piece of wood to dampen the blows (or use a dead blow hammer). Aluminum bars needed for BigBox The aluminum bar size I used is 15 x 15 mm Front / back panels 4x upright bar 690 mm high 4x horizontal bar 595 mm long Side panels 4x upright bar 690 mm high 4x horizontal bar 530 mm long Roof panel 2x front / back bar 595 mm long 2x side bars 560 mm long Magnets 16 x cube magnets (10 x 10 x 4) mm for the the corner pieces 12 x round magnets (12 mm diameter, 1 mm thick) for the doors and the side panels Perspex panels Clear perspex for front doors and roof. 2 x Doors 295 x 688 1 x Roof 558 x 594 Channel plate for back doors and side panels 2 x Doors 295 x 688 2 x Side panel 528 x 688 3D printed parts: Taulman Alloy 910 or any other high tensile strength polymer. 4 x Roof corner piece 4 x Front and back panels corner piece 4 x Side panels corner piece 4 x Hinge doorpost left 4 x Hinge doorpost right 4 x Hinge door left 4 x Hinge door right PLA or any other (cheap) material: 8 x Door and side panel knob 2 x Doors upper magnet holder 8 x Side panel magnet holder 4 x Roof panel bearer corner piece 4 x Roof panel bearer middle piece 1 x fan protector (for 80mm fan)