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AXIS Dual Extrusion Upgrade

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***Pre-Order Item*** The AXIS 3D Printer and its upgrades are currently available as a pre-order in continuation of our Kickstarter campaign. Make sure to complete your order before the 25th of November in order to guarantee a timely delivery. Dispatch is estimated for April 2020. Regular updates can be found here.

Expand the standard capabilities of the AXIS 3D Printer by adding the following plug and play upgrades. You can mix and match any combination of upgrades or add them all for the ultimate experience!

Double the fun and the capability of your AXIS 3D Printer with this easy to use dual extrusion upgrade.

Two materials are printed via a Y shaped Splitter. When a material is done printing the extruder pulls it back out of the hotend and through the Splitter. Then the other extruder pushes the second material in through the other side of the Splitter to be printed with.

The Capabilities of Dual Extrusion

With the Dual Extruder upgrade you are able to print together materials with different properties and create dynamic parts like this hinge:

This hinge is shown as an example of what's possible with dual extrusion, it was printed on the Proforge 2S.

Dual extrusion can also be used to create geometries that would otherwise be impossible to print, but with the aid of a dissolvable support material like PVA we can do this: