The Ahmi A8 is a metal 3d printer frame used for my own 3d printer that I named after my little girl. The A8 in the name is just to designate that this is a kit designed specifically to be a full frame replacement for the weak Anet A8 Frame. I designed this frame back in 2017-18 when the Anet A8 was THE inexpensive printer on the market. I hade a small print farm which I ran daily and I used exclusively Anet A8 printers because they where inexpensive and got the job done. Over time I actually developed my own standard little printer i called the Ahmi (which will also be open sourced) that I would use personally, but sold only the frame kits. Around covid I went out of business in a spectacular fashion and shut down my business operations completely. Moved out to a farm and stoped trying to be an entrepreneur. This lasted until into late last year when I decided it was time to put my business hat back on. I am now releasing my kit design as an open source option for people to use. I also hope to start selling them again, tho I’m not sure I will sell Them as Anet A8 frames. They make great 3d printer frames as is. And I’m happy to put measurements, share files.
I have made this kit open source. The only thing I havent done is put out the instructions. Its a prety straight forward build. but if you would like you can purchase the instructions from me Here. You could also purchase the Frame from me Here or you purchase the hardware kits Here. I upcharge the standard retail percentage sometimes a little more (for instance with the hardware kits to cover my time counting out the parts by hand. lol)
You can edit the Ahmi A8 on the openscad playground. # PLEASE NOTE! this is a link (that redirects through my website) to the file that can be edited in the browser.
I provide links to the openscad playground largly becasue it renders the models way faster than a computer does. there is a whole interesting article to be found on the subject and how they did it.
there are 7 printable jigs to help you line up your drill for semi acurate drilling. They can be downloded from the folder above Jigs or edited from the following link. online Openscad # PLEASE NOTE! this is a link (that redirects through my website) to the file that can be edited in the browser
The 2040 Extrusion I get has holes in it that work best with either M5 or 10-32 taps
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