DUAL FREEDOM - Ender 5 IDEX Conversion

Why BUY an IDEX when you can convert your good ol' Ender 5?

This is a project about converting a stock Ender 5 into a capable Independent Dual Extruder (Aka IDEX) printer on a budget (Costs roughly $300).

After wanting to be able to print dual color/material prints, and seeing that nobody had really designed an orignal Ender 5 IDEX conversion. I though why not take a shot at designing one? After more than half a year of designing, breaking stuff and iterations I'm finally releasing this 3d printer to THE COMMUNITY!

Also this isn't the perfect IDEX conversion, like always theres still loads of room for improvment. But some nice things IDEX enables is:

• Faster dual color/material prints (especially compared to mmu's having to purge)

• Print PETG as support and PLA as main (or the other way around)

• Print two same parts at the same time or even the same part but "mirrored".

The features:

• Effective "dual" nozzle wipe cleaner

• Linear rails

• Slightly extended bed height

• Inductive sensor

• Simple and solid spool mount

• Bambu lab hotend (Etc p1s style)

• HGX extruder (sherpa mini mount)

• Dual 5015 fans

Theres only a slight drawback. When printing in dual color/filament mode the bed size goes from the original 220x220 to 160x220 (So a little less width when printing) And when printing single material/color mode, the bed area is 188x220.

This repository includes all the good stuff like the cad files, wiring schematics, printer.cfg, orca slicer presets and etc. As I've said it still could see improvments and any community mods, tweaks or ideas are SUPER welcome! All after all I made this project FULLY OPEN SOURCE! Enjoy!

Heres the GitHub where the schematics, printer.cfg, orca slicer presets and etc are: 👉 Check out GitHub

Also if you want to dive in deep and see how I designed, assembled and all the different fails I've had (Like the fan ducts crashing into each other and "exploding") then check out this video: 👉 Watch on YouTube