##Hero Me Gen7 Printhead Platform
###Hero Me Gen7.4 is a modular printhead platform for 3D printers with excellent part cooling and the most compatibility across 3D printers, hot-ends, extruders, ABLs, and other components.
The Hero Me Gen7 is all about choice and personal preference. If you have been upgrading your 3D printer, you've made choices about what is important to you, Your choices are likely going to be different from everyone else. When choosing a hot-end, extruder, and ABL combo (not to mention fans and accelerometers), where are you going to find a printhead platform that will accommodate all your selected components (which could be a rare combo), for your specific 3D printer AND provides part cooling that gives you great print results. This is what the Hero Me Gen7 is all about!
Think of the Hero Me platform as Lego blocks for printheads, there are mounting parts for each component (hot-end, extruder, fans, ABLs, etc.) that stack and mount to a core Base. Component-specific mounting parts can be interchanged for another of the same type. So, should you change your component selection(s) in the future, you do not have to start over, you simply replace the single STL mount that is matched to the new component. There is no need to yet again go looking for a new set of mounting hardware that was not likely to have been designed to work with each other in the first place.
####Documentation:
While the Zip of all the Hero Me Gen7 STLs is organized into folders by component category, with sub-folders for type and brand with well-defined filenames, if you want documentation to help you select and assemble the Hero Me Gen7 for your specific 3D printer,you can get a detailed 56-page parts selection and illustrated assembly guide by supporting me on Patreon.com for as little as $5.
If you become an All-Access Club supporter, you also get assembly videos, private Discord server access, direct technical support, as well as exclusive access to new releases 30 days before being posted to Printables, Thangs, and other STL libraries. Memberships are also available via Printables.com (https://www.printables.com/@MediaMan3D#join:36) or Thangs.com (https://thangs.com/designer/MediaMan3D).
Rather than subscribe, you can just purchase the Hero Me Gen7 parts selection and illustrated assembly guide and videos in my Patreon Store here: https://www.patreon.com/mediaman3d/shop
###UPDATED July 14th, 2023:
Uploaded Hero Me Gen7 Release 4. This release has 187 new STLs and 50 updated STLs since Release 3 and a total of 328 new and updated STLs since Release 2.
- 29 new 3D Printers/models and X carriage options
- 16 new Hot-ends
- 8 new Extruders
- 6 new ABL sensors/probes
- Plus many improved STLs.
Check out the V1.6 Change Log and 7.4 Printer-Component support docs for all the details.
Here is the latest install and review of the Hero Me Gen7 by Michael from TeachingTech! (Starts at the 4 minute mark)
Below is a 10-minute overview of the Hero Me platform when I spoke with Joel the 3D Printing Nerd at RMRRF in April 2023.
So to give you a choice and fulfill your personal preferences in 3D printing, the Hero Me Gen7.4 now supports over 115 3D Printer models (plus clones), 47 Hotends, 37 Extruders (over 45 mount options), 20 ABL Sensors (34 mount options), 35 Part Cooling Duct options, 12 Cable Management options, 14 ADXL345 mounts, and 4 LED bar mounts (among many other options).
Watch this clip for proof that the Hero Me provides the best part cooling possible.
Can your printer do that? 240mm, no support, no sagging. With part cooling like this, the Hero Me Gen7 can properly cool anything you print.
For those who may think that the Hero Me is heavy, I can see why you think that, but the Hero Me is comparatively quite light. A full complement of printed parts (with threaded inserts) for a dual fan, hot-end/direct drive configuration, with ABL, ADXL, and LED mounts is just under 87 grams.
Lighter weight than many stock printhead setups and most other replacement setups. A simple Bowden setup with no ABL can be as few as just 4-5 printed parts. A fully loaded printhead with hot-end, extruder, ABL, dual fans, ADXL345, LED, and wire management is only 12 printed parts.
4/28/2023: Here is a new interview with Daniel of Crosslink that provides a great overview of the Hero Me platform:
####3D Printers & Components Supported by Hero Me Gen7.4
Over 115 3D Printer Models/X Carriages Supported:
47+ Hotend Brands and Models Supported:
- Anycubic Vyper V5 Stock
- Creality Stock MK8 (2 screw mount)
- Creality CR-10S Pro (2 screw mount)
- Creality Spider (350c max)
- Creality Spider High Temp (500c max)
- Creality Spider 3 Pro
- Creality Spider 4 Pro (Speedy Ceramic)
- E3D-Online V6 & Volcano
- E3D-Online Revo Six (aka Prusa MK3)
- E3D-Online Revo Micro (aka Mini)
- E3D-Online Revo Voron
- E3D-Online Revo CR
- Haldis Red Lizard K1 V6 (Dragon)
- Haldis Red Lizard K1 Pro-HF-UHF
- Haldis Red Lizard V5, V5 Pro
- Generic MK8
- Generic J-Head V5, V6
- Micro Swiss All Metal CR-10, 10S Pro
- Neptune Stock
- Phaetus Dragon
- Phaetus Dragonfly BMO-BMS-HIC
- Phaetus Rapido (aka ST, HF)
- Phaetus Rapido Plus (aka UHF)
- Phaetus X Voron Dragon ST-HF-UHF
- Phaetus TaiChi
- Slice Engineering Copperhead
- Slice Mosquito, Magnum, Magnum+
- Slice Mosquito for Creality
- TriangleLab Dragon SF-HF
- TriangleLab Rapido HF-UHF
- TriangleLab TCHC CHC, CHC Pro, PT1000 Pro
- TriangleLab TCHC TR6
- TriangleLab CHC Mini
- Clones of any hotends above
37+ Extruder Brand and Models Supported:
- Advanced 3D Printing FXD
- Bondtech BMG (and mirror)
- Bondtech BMG-M (and mirror)
- BMG Mini (clone)
- Bondtech LGX
- Bondtech LGX Lite
- Creality Stock Single and Dual Gear
- Creality E-Fit
- E3D-Online Titan
- EZR Struder
- HextrudORT
- Kingroon Titan Clone
- Micro Swiss DD kits: Ender 3, 5, Linear Rail, Exoslide • Micro Swiss Dual Gear
- Orbiter V1.5 & V2.0 (and mirrors)
- PrinterMods MDD Kit
- Phaetus APUS
- Sailfin A, B, Sherpa Variants
- Sherpa Mini
- Sherpa Micro
- Sovol SV01 stock
- Sovol SV06 stock
- Vz-HextrudORT
- TriangleLab TBG-Lite
- TriangleLab TBG-S
- Voron, Switchwire-Afterburner
- Clones of any extruders above (look-alikes may not fit)
20+ Auto Bed Level (ABL) Sensors Supported:
- Beacon3D
- BLTouch
- CR Touch
- Creality OEM
- Euclid Probe
- EryONE ER-20
- EZABL Pro
- EZABL Pro Mini & Micro
- HallON
- PINDA
- PL-08N, XY-08M, SN04-N
- Touch Mi
- TA Sensor
- Omron Sensor
- 8mm, 12mm & 18mm sensors
- Clones of any ABL sensors above
Heat Sink and Part Cooling Fans Supported:
- 4010 radial fan (single and dual)
- 4020 radial fan (single and dual)
- 5015 radial fan (single and dual)
- 5020 radial fan (single and dual)
- 4010 & 4020 axial fans for heat sink cooling
There are also 14 mounts for various ADXL345 accelerometer PCBs and other options like endoscope cameras and analog dial gauges.
If there is a generally known component (hotend, extruder, etc.) that is not listed in this document, it is either not compatible (too large, etc.) or has not yet been tested.
The Hero Me Gen7 does not support any of the integrated extruder/hotends, this includes but may not be limited to the following: Creality S1 Sprite, Micro Swiss NG, E3D-Online Titan Aero, BIQU H2, E3D-Online Hemera, and the Bondtech LGX Shortcut. These extruder/hotends are all too large, too wide, to fit into a Hero Me Base. I will be developing specific part cooling ducts based upon the Hero Me with ABL/ADXL345 mounts for as many of these integrated extruder/hotends as is possible. ETA sometime in the Summer of 2023.
####Hero Me Gen7.4 Documentation (If you skipped it earlier)
While the Zip of all the Hero Me Gen7 STLs is organized into folders by component category, with sub-folders for type and brand with well-defined filenames, if you want documentation to help you select and assemble the Hero Me Gen7 for your specific 3D printer,you can get a detailed 56-page parts selection and illustrated assembly guide by supporting me on Patreon.com for as little as $5.
If you become an All-Access Club supporter, you also get assembly videos, private Discord server access, direct technical support, as well as exclusive access to new releases 30 days before being posted to Printables, Thangs, and other STL libraries. Memberships are also available via Printables.com (https://www.printables.com/@MediaMan3D#join:36) or Thangs.com (https://thangs.com/designer/MediaMan3D).
Rather than subscribe, you can just purchase the Hero Me Gen7 parts selection and illustrated assembly guide and videos in my Patreon Store here: https://www.patreon.com/mediaman3d/shop
####YouTube Videos about the Hero Me
Jim of The Edge of Tech visits me at the Rocky Mountain Rep Rap Festival in April (3 minute clip starts at 56:30):
I was a guest on Grant Posner's 3D Musketeers Making Awesome YouTube Channel. We talked about the Hero Me, Prusa MUTANT upgrade, other 3D printing topics and plenty of live Q&A. I hope you can attend. When it comes to part cooling, everybody deserves a Hero!
Here is an example of Hero Me Gen7 performance compared to other cooling solutions. Note that a Dual 5015 fan setup in the Hero Me Gen7 never needs to be more that 70% power, and most commonly at 40-50% to get best airflow and all around cooling with the benefit of super quiet printing.
Kris from Kersey Fabrications lists the Hero Me as one of the Top 5 upgrades for the Ender 5. Check out the video below:
####Thanks and Credits
I would like to thank Hangtight for his work on converting the Hero Me STLs into STEP files (available to my Patreon supporters).
I would like to thank ACWest for providing his awesome part cooling ducts to be part of the Hero Me Gen7 Master Suite. His cooling ducts have been CFM tested and validated to have the optimum focused airflow across the part at the tip of the nozzle.
Thanks to Kelokera for the original Hero Me design
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3092044 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3092044)
Thank you for choosing the Hero Me Gen7 to be part of your 3D printing experience! Please post
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