Look at Sovol or Anycubic in that price range. I don’t have direct experience with either. A good friend of mine had two Anycubics at one point last year and he said they were easier than his Creality.
Comment on what budget 3d printer would you suggest for a beginner?
overdark@lemmy.world 7 months agoI had a 3 V2 and sold it. Spent so much time and money and still hated it. Will I like that one better?
kale@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
thantik@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ll tell you right now that the Anycubics are garbage. They have electrical/wiring issues, and their touch probe solution is flaky. They are violating open source licenses as well, by not releasing the source code for their firmware on their machines. Stay far away from Anycubic.
thantik@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, even the v2 required a lot of assembly and you have to deal with eccentric nuts and delrin V wheels and crap in order to make it print right. The v3 has proper linear rods on the Y axis, no wheels to adjust the bed, everything assembled with like 6 screws. It’s leagues ahead of the v2.
overdark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thanks for the response. I’ll look into getting one then :)
thantik@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re welcome to message me directly if you have any questions about it – the biggest piece of advice is don’t go changing a bunch of crap out of the box as many on the internet will tell you to do. Just download creality slicer, choose the Ender 3 v3 SE, and print. Maybe turn on/off supports as needed. Use the “Level” option when you first turn on the machine, and then print your file. I’ve had complete technophobes able to run this machine with little to no problem.