Get one of those old timey sheep stomach water bladders and fill it with molten plastic, then just go to town like you’re icing a cake.
Or buy a different brand
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vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Ok, how am I to enter the 3d printing
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago Avoid
- BambuLab (the usual backstabbing of big corpos)
- Creality (recently went IPO and strongly pivoted towards AI)
- FlashForge (also apparently AI stuff)
- Anycubic (cheap shit)
Recommend
- Sovol (especially for tinkerers, but bad customer support)
- Snapmaker U1 (good price / performance)
- Prusa (The best with a backbone and EU-based, but pricy af because of it)
- Qidi Tech (Rather affordable, not too bad apparently)
These are my personal opinions and what I heard over the years.
fishy@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
What’s the deal with flashforge? I can’t find much except that they’re integrating some kind of AI modeling software with their studio program?
InputZero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I agree with your take on all of them except Anycubic, if you can get them for cheap. By that I don’t mean the forever sale on their website. I started with a used anycubic that I got for less than $100.00 USD. While it does suck it let me see if I actually wanted to spend more money on this hobby or not. I’m already looking into getting a Prusa someday but for now it’s enough. So there is a spot for Anycubic, it’s entry level for printing curious.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agree 100%. My first printer was a cheap Kobra 2. I had a lot of problems with it and I’m not sure if it’s because of the printer or because I was changing settings without knowing what I was doing.
At any rate, I wanted something better and didn’t want anycubic, but Kobra 3 with AMS was only $299 at the time so I got one. It worked great. I started on some large printing projects and ended up getting a second one for $299 to spread the workload around.
I have about 600 hours on both and they’ve both been great. I have a Snapmaker U1 but I’m going to keep using the Kobra 3s for basic prints as long as they last.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago I have quite liked my resin anycubic. Not sure about the filament style they make but they seem to know how to make resin printers.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago Qidi had fire issues too IIRC
OilyArena@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
IIRC it was just a bunch of people that didn’t understand how a resistive heater works and that you shouldn’t reach far inside a 3d printer while it’s running.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
AFAIK they did have some issues on the first of their 3rd gen printers, and only for 110VAC models, 230VAC models were unaffected. And they recognized the issue when it was discovered, fixed it, and shipped replacement parts for affected customers.
The current printers you can buy from them are their 4th gen, haven’t heard anything like that for these. They’re technically open source, but they make their own weird forked klipper version instead of just using vanilla klipper.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It’s getting as bad as picking a Linux kernel. No matter what you pick, there’s always something wrong with it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago Which ones do I buy if I like fire
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago My old homemade printer
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I follow a lot of 3d printing news and I agree with these recommendations.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Depends on what you want, and how much you can afford. Personally I hate the idea of my printer connecting to the internet, so I’m still very happy with the Creality CR-10 that I bought 7 years ago. You can buy very similar models new for like $300. Less if you’re willing to settle for less build volume, and even less if you’re willing to buy used off of Craigslist or similar online marketplaces