PatienceIsA - Virtu Enclosure (Unofficial)

PatienceIsA - An unoffifial enclosure for the VirtuE3.

About 90% of all the stuff I print is in filaments that benefit from printing enclosed, so having an otherwise high performance printer sitting idle and unused until RH3D shares his enclosure design with us seems like a waste! So I designed this for my own use and am sharing in case anyone else finds it useful. Moderately tested - happy if you want to take this and run with it to make something better, I'm really not precious!

.step available on the RH3D Discord

Not a perfect air seal by any stretch - but paired with good active filtration it should be workable. YMMV.

Design constraints:

• Re-use the existing (and quite mucky!) 4mm sheets of acrylic I had sitting around

• Work well with badly cut panels - I knew I was going to have to cut mine down with a jigsaw rather than ordering new, so there should be tolerance for dodgy cuts built in.

• No new or weird hardware - use what I already had sitting around.

• Minimal drilled panel holes to minimise chances of splitting. Any holes should be well away from panel edges.

Printing:

• All parts should be already oriented for printing.

• The front corner joiner will need some supports painted into the slot. I have tagged the filename with [Supp] to hopefully remind you.

• Everything designed for 0.2mm layer height, but I have probably got overexcited at some point and forgotten this!

• If you need to print more than one of a part then the filename will tell you how many to print

Assembly:

• Heatsets galore - should be fairly obvious where they need to go.

• Lower side panels to go on first. Note that every one of the corner pieces is sliiiiightly different.

• Loosely assemble the top hat and plonk on top, then wiggle things around until it all nicely aligns and then tighten screws.

• Lastly, attach the hinges, offer up the door panel and work out where you need to drill & countersink your holes.

Panel sizes (tolerance should allow for ± 2mm)

BOM: