Do you own a 3D printer?

Do you own a 3D printer?

  • Yes

    Votes: 78 27.8%

  • No, but I want one

    Votes: 105 37.4%

  • No, no need for one

    Votes: 97 34.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Total voters
    281
bwana said:
Couldn’t you have bought a sheet of plastic and a r20 drill bit? :unsure:
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Wouldn't be as neat or accurate. I can specify an 8mm fillet on the corners to make sure it matches the box it needs to go in.

Plus I was born with 2 left thumbs. If it isn't a straight line I can cut with rotary saw, I will make a dog's breakfast out of it.

3D printing allows me to press a button and forget about it, and I can make it in any size with 0 effort.
 
Honestly I would never recommend any hobbyist printers to anyone anymore as a starter printer, ones where you must upgrade them (Z braces, All Metal Hotend and Extruder, Fan Mods, Bed Levelling mods, Upgraded mother boards, and PSU's, cameras and wireless connectivity, building heated enclosures with lighting) only to realise hey I coulda bought a printer out of the box with all that stuff built in. This is the case with creality/wanhao/anycubic/voron and others (which are considered starter printers). Time, know how, and tons of youtube videos later you will end up buying an Ultimaker S5 (have 2).

Hobby printers are fine for people who want to tinker honestly I gave that up (as an Engineer even), hence I moved to Bambu labs (superior printing speeds for out of the box prints).

With Prusa XL coming up as well (will order this as well to add to my print farm), tinkering for me at least is dead.

I understand printers are expensive, save the money and time, wait till you can afford the top of the range stuff.
 
Username: said:
My Ender3 S1 Pro worked straight out of the box. Only mod is a RPhi so that I can use Klipper in order to send printing jobs straight from my PC over Wi-fi.


Ultimaker cost R140k, saving for the top a range stuff in this league for R10k per day CEOs not plebs like me unfortunately
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Pretty much the same for my E3S1 - added a rpi (that was languishing in a drawer) for Octoprint and a webcam (also languishing in a drawer)
 
Vengeful said:
Honestly I would never recommend any hobbyist printers to anyone anymore as a starter printer, ones where you must upgrade them (Z braces, All Metal Hotend and Extruder, Fan Mods, Bed Levelling mods, Upgraded mother boards, and PSU's, cameras and wireless connectivity, building heated enclosures with lighting) only to realise hey I coulda bought a printer out of the box with all that stuff built in. This is the case with creality/wanhao/anycubic/voron and others (which are considered starter printers). Time, know how, and tons of youtube videos later you will end up buying an Ultimaker S5 (have 2).

Hobby printers are fine for people who want to tinker honestly I gave that up (as an Engineer even), hence I moved to Bambu labs (superior printing speeds for out of the box prints).

With Prusa XL coming up as well (will order this as well to add to my print farm), tinkering for me at least is dead.

I understand printers are expensive, save the money and time, wait till you can afford the top of the range stuff.
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I hear you but damn those printers are expensive
 
AfricanTech said:
I hear you but damn those printers are expensive
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And also most people buy one not sure if they really want one or buy one and after a month or two it just sits there. For home users I wouldn't recommend something like an Ultimaker. Start cheaper and if you get into it you can sell and upgrade or just run both because more gadgets are better.
 
Vengeful said:
Honestly I would never recommend any hobbyist printers to anyone anymore as a starter printer, ones where you must upgrade them (Z braces, All Metal Hotend and Extruder, Fan Mods, Bed Levelling mods, Upgraded mother boards, and PSU's, cameras and wireless connectivity, building heated enclosures with lighting) only to realise hey I coulda bought a printer out of the box with all that stuff built in. This is the case with creality/wanhao/anycubic/voron and others (which are considered starter printers). Time, know how, and tons of youtube videos later you will end up buying an Ultimaker S5 (have 2).

Hobby printers are fine for people who want to tinker honestly I gave that up (as an Engineer even), hence I moved to Bambu labs (superior printing speeds for out of the box prints).

With Prusa XL coming up as well (will order this as well to add to my print farm), tinkering for me at least is dead.

I understand printers are expensive, save the money and time, wait till you can afford the top of the range stuff.
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If it is for commercial use (which is what I think you are doing if you are saying you have a print farm), then by all means, that cost is justified.

I am super happy with my creality
 
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