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I mean, if people wanted to, they could pretty easily. .3mf and .stl files are easy to redistribute, and there are lots of 3D print model piracy groups around.

This is about the pricing of models for hobbyist use, not at all about models being for sale at all.

That is super cool! I wish I had the 50+ spare hours I imagine it would take to go down this rabbit hole… Maybe later this summer!

Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, and a lot less time, likely, too. CADing that would be pretty quick.

That’s a marketing video, of course, but that looks really good. Even ignoring everything else, multi-material TPU printing would be amaze balls since varying hardness/flexibility has so many applications.

I’m going to have a hard time not pre-ordering it to get the early bird discount, lol. I imagine it’ll be north of $1K CAD…

… Hmm. Maybe if I start a side hustle selling 3D prints, I can raise enough to buy it?

I know Creality has a reputation for inconsistency, but their hardware is also fairly easy to disassemble and fix with cheap parts, so that’s not catastrophic. I was super lucky with my Hi, only having typical issues with filament-related stuff, but I also troubleshot some problems with my friend’s Hi, and it wasn’t a big deal to fix.

Thanks for sharing!

If I could afford it, that would be my choice.

I’d probably get the Creality Sparx i7 right now, as an entry-level multicolour 3D printer. I got the Creality Hi Combo last year, and it’s been a great printer for me, and it sounds like the Sparx i7 is mostly just better.

I suppose that makes sense. I almost entirely print short things, and when I do taller prints, it’s always single colour because it’s a functional piece.

I’m not interested in giant 3D print display art, personally, so I’ve never run into that challenge. Hell, I set my prime tower brims to 0 just to make it easier to get off the plate.

I don’t have one, but I expect they kept that default setting for the reasons outlined above, but because of a lack of poop chute.

I have a Creality Hi, and a 3D-printed poop chute off the side of the printer holds plenty of poop for typically-sized 4-colour full-purge prints.

For really huge prints, I empty once mid print, but those prints last for days anyway, so it’s no big deal.

With no need for colour/material purging, I would expect a purge tray to be plenty for a multi-toolhead printer. I can’t imagine it purges much?

I don’t see the full reason anywhere in the thread; the prime tower is essential to quality multicolour prints. Purging quickly shoots out a high volume of filament to quickly clear as much of the previous colour as possible, but then when it goes to start printing, the temperature and pressure are all out of whack and you get inconsistent flow.

So, if you skip the prime tower, you’ll get globby over extrusions and gaps from under extrusion on the first thing printed in that colour each layer, which looks terrible.

That said, the prime tower can be much smaller than default. I set mine to 3mm³ of priming and it comes out 95-100% perfect, with only very occasional blobs on the edge, which pop right off with a fingernail flick (or a deburring tool, if you’re fancy.)

Don’t skip the prime tower. I did for a few weeks before cluing in to why I was getting 1 bad print on every plate.

I suppose if you’re changing filament by layer, then you could maybe skip it, but then definitely don’t print outer wall first or you won’t get a clean print. But even then, a 3mm³ prime tower is tiny, so why risk it?

Hell, even the Snapmaker U1 uses a prime tower, and it has 4 hot ends; it’s needed to normalize the flow after a temperature/flow change (being idle). I don’t have one to test, but I expect it would greatly benefit from a bigger prime tower, since it hasn’t just been extruding filament as purge to get things flowing. But that’s just speculation, as I sadly don’t have one to test with.

I’m getting a 4-pack of Tabletop Simulator. Not sure if that counts, since I already did that once—I have new people to try to rope into playing boardgames digitally with me, lol.