A type of extruder used in fused deposition modeling where the gear drive that pushes the filament into the heater and through the nozzle directly attached to the heater and nozzle in the print head, which moves to create the build layer.
The opposite of a direct drive is a Bowden extruder, where the drive gear is attached to the machine frame and does not move with the print head.
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