The K3 will be sold for around 20k - confirmed with Oom Creality at their Comic Con stall. K3 does look very interesting. I would recommend the Snapmaker U1 in a heartbeat, though, if you are in that price range.
I am busy with a project regarding educational toys. What i need is about 5 pictures of items starting with each letter of the alphabet (where possible). I have an accepted word list already. The plan is to make either coin type disks for each with the image extruded on top or pure silhouette...
It is quite a specific purpose machine, yes. The multicolour on it looks amazing, but it is limited in terms of materials. For my purposes, it will add additional capacity in multicolour. I do 99% PLA and have done a little bit of PETG on occasion. I have not tried TPU yet, printers are...
I have used ChatGPT to generate scripts for Fusion 360 with success (after persistence). Nothing as fancy as this, but the plus side is that I didn't need to use work mode, as no files were generated/downloaded.
There are 3d scanners available, but they are muchos expensive. Some companies offer scanning as a service. There may be apps for this as well, never used one.
This is not so different from what it has always been? If you want the good stuff, pay for premium. If you want it with a decoder, pay more. The R399 "sport" pack is what they have been having at the Spur and in hospitals, just renamed it. What is actually better now?