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DacoTaco@lemmy.world 3 days agoPrusa has innovated. Not on their printers, agreed there, but in the slicer they have. And imo, those brands that are standing on prusa’s shoulders should pay them for that work but afaik, and do correct me if im wrong, they dont. Bambu does nothing back for prusa, the opposite even. They are killing the shoulders they are standing on and barely do something for communities. Creality was also that bad until they were forced to by a chinese maker that is now at large.
I joined the 3d printing scene at the wrong time as i saw giants like prusa slowly fall and be replaced with shit heads like bambu
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
My point is that any innovation by prusa, slicer or printer, is pretty much past tense.
mechanismatic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Granted it’s from a partnership, but the INDX extruder seems to be on the cusp, so the idea that Prusa is behind seems odd. And the fact that they’re more open and consumer friendly than Bambu is great. There are a lot of affordable printers that have benefited from Prusa’s development while Prusa is still dropping new developments, seemingly at a greater rate now than previously.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
INDX is done by a completely different company, you cannot credit their work to prusa at all.
mechanismatic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s a partnership and the INDX isn’t a separate printer, just a new extruder, so it’s not like Prusa has no involvement. I would say “completely” is inaccurate here. If it were solely the effort of INDX, they wouldn’t need to partner with Prusa. There are other third parties that release mods for printers that aren’t collaborations with the original manufacturer.
If Prusa hired the INDX engineers from BondTech instead of partnering, would you still consider it completely separate? A company is just composed of current employees. At what point is it Theseus’ ship of development?
And that’s not even considering the CORE One, the recent CORE One+ update, the CORE One L announcement, the OpenPrintTag, et al. They’ve been announcing more new stuff in the last year at a faster rate than previous years.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And im saying its not, because their changes still flow upwards towards the bambu slicer and the popular fork of fork, orca slicer, which are both based on prusaslicer and still integrate changes of prusaslicer.