Comment on I Designed a 3D Printable Balisong Knife
betz24@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
What 3D printer do you have? The print looks good.
Comment on I Designed a 3D Printable Balisong Knife
betz24@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
What 3D printer do you have? The print looks good.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I use a pretty much stock Qidi X-Plus.
betz24@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Looks like a sweet printer. I was thinking of buying a Bambu for the holidays, but this looks like a better deal.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I am given to understand that the Bambu is a significantly more capable printer, but for what I paid for the Qidi a couple of years ago I have been very pleased with it just far. If the spectrum goes from 0 to 10, where 0 is receiving an unsorted box of exploded parts and wires, and 10 is a sealed black box built by magic pixies from space, the X-Plus is a solid 7. I didn’t really have to do anything to it to get it working well or keep it going, although I did make some minor quality of life mods and I shoved a Raspberry Pi and one of its little camera modules into it so I can remote view what’s going on in there and hit the kill switch over the wire if necessary.
If you’re into the Bambu’s main party trick, Qidi actually do make a model or two with dual extruders so you can do multi-color or multi-material prints. But mine isn’t one of those. The Bambu machines (except maybe their little A1 Mini) are probably all noticeably faster than the Qidi as well. But the Qidi costs, like, a quarter as much as an X1 carbon, and half as much as a P1P.
betz24@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Interesting. I saw the Qidi X-Plus 3 advertises 600mm/s vs Bambu P1S 500mm/s. And the P1S doesn’t offer a heated chamber. Have you noticed a difference in quality from the heated chamber?
I haven’t yet been convinced of the bambu cool-aid mainly because of closed software. Klipper support is a big value prop. Who knows how long bambu will support OS versions and what happens if they start charging for cloud. It’s a young company, so not a lot of confidence yet.