HICTOP Direct Planetary Drive

This is an assembly that holds my planetary extruder in a direct drive configuration. All of the hot end parts are standard parts that come with a hictop printer. It eliminats the bearing holder blocks. Instead, the linear bears snap into a printed bearing holder. This assembly is very minumal and light weight

2018-05-25 - New version of extruder bracket that holds cooling fan more securly and pushes fan out to allow x axis full travel. Created new ring fan duct with an air blade style output. Fan duct blows less air at the nozzle allowing higher temps to be maintained with higher fan speeds. No supports are required to print this new fan duct. I used a brim to help it stay on the bed

2018-012-15 - Upload latest version compatible with version 7 and 8 of planetary extruder. Old version is still availible for download in a zip file. New version has many benefits.
1. extruder assembly secure much more rigidly to bracket and is able to slide forwards and out for ser