This is my journey in converting an Artillery Genius to Switchwire.
discord salveo#6988 if you have any question
This conversion is based on Gizzle’s Ender 3 conversion
I reused the following parts:
- motor mounts
- upper blocks assembly
- Z bearing blocks
- keybak mount
This mod will shorten the X travel by 10mm because of the narrow vertical extrusions but you will gain 20mm of travel in Z.
The build volume is 220x230x270 \
Front and Left
Back and Right
You can reuse a good amount of parts from the Genius:
- MCU (Mks gen L)
- PSU
- Y assembly
- All the stepper motors except the extruder one
- 4020 blower
- 4010 fan
- 2040 vertical extrusions
At the moment, the TFT screen is not compatible with Klipper, you won’t be able to use it.
See the Switchwire BOM for links to products
- 2020 extrusion 320mm – 1pcs (top extrusion)
- 2020 extrusion 310mm – 1pcs (x axis extrusion)
- MGN12H linear rail 330mm – 2pcs (z axis)
- MGN12H linear rail 270mm – 1pcs (x axis)
- GT2 belt – 5 meters
- GT2 20t pulley – 3 pcs
- F695 Bearing – 20 pcs
- Raspberry for running klipper
- SPDT KW10 Limit Micro Switch (for x-axis)
- Omron TL-Q5MC2 - NPN Inductive Probe (if you want bed mesh leveling,I reused the stock endstop for z)
- 20mm NEMA17 for the extruder (NEMA17 Motor 17HS08-1004S)
- Loctite Blue Threadlocker (or nail polish)
- Key-Bak (you can use this cheaper alternative (https://it.aliexpress.com/item/1005001273995297.html)
- 24 AWG PTFE
- 20 AWG PTFE
- 10x11 Cable Chain
- connectors
Make sure you order spare fasteners in case I miscounted them
- hardware for the Afterburner (check sw bom)
To cover the unused usb port I created a keyboard of 4 buttons that call a gcode macro.
Buttons used: 12x12x4.3 => aliexpress
Solder one side of the button to a data pin, the other goes to GND.
Then close the lid and route the cables through the usb hole.
Product in action
If you want your top idlers to be sturdier you can reuse the old pulley to act as an m5 spacer.
