I’m new to Sovol having received my first SV08 yesterday. Initial installation very smooth and first print worked very well. The machine was purchased for a multi colour parallel printing project I am working on. The first stage is to add a second gantry - that can hopefully be used in parallel t…

How would this deal with filament retract in case of parallel printing, when lifting one head will affect Z position of the other?

Thanks for the comment. You are correct that z hopping is an issue and is the reason why my first iteration of this multi gantry design was only going to have normal idex functions like colour change, mirror and copy modes. However following on from the comments by @8MEKAN8 on this video Idex yout…

SV08 Double Gantry parallel printing IDEX project

Sovol SV08

ukdavewood January 8, 2025, 1:09pm 2

Picture from a different angle - with updated routing around the steppers and more detail of the 2nd gantry

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SV08 Double Gantry parallel printing IDEX project

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