Anybody into 3d printing???

[MR. FUSION]

I am looking to buy my first 3d printer, once I get to grips with the system I want to have the leeway to be able to print big!!

For a first machine I have been looking at the cheaper Chinese examples, including this one

Any thoughts ???

 

[TheBig1]

sorry, no link or picture showing in your post

 

[PhilG]

What are you wanting to make , that you cant already buy?

 

[Theonlysue]

Is the 'ink' expensive??

 

[J H]

Don't buy the filament version, go for the resin one, it has a much better finish. My son has a small one that can print up to 10cm square or thereabouts. The filament ones have to be finished by hand to smooth out all the tiny tiny ridges of the layers but the resin ones print bottom up and rise out of the liquid resin bath so don't have any ridges. His is also made by Anycube.

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[MR. FUSION]

sorry, no link or picture showing in your post

Sorry, review of the printer here: https://all3dp.com/1/anycubic-chiron-3d-printer-review/

 

[MR. FUSION]

Don't buy the filament version, go for the resin one, it has a much better finish. My son has a small one that can print up to 10cm square or thereabouts. The filament ones have to be finished by hand to smooth out all the tiny tiny ridges of the layers but the resin ones print bottom up and rise out of the liquid resin bath so don't have any ridges. His is also made by Anycube.

thanks I will have a look at that type

 

[Ingwe]

I am looking to buy my first 3d printer, once I get to grips with the system I want to have the leeway to be able to print big!!

For a first machine I have been looking at the cheaper Chinese examples, including this one

Any thoughts ???

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Can it make a Hymer for me please?

 

[The Wino]

How about one of these!!!!

 

[Steve and Denise]

hchris

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[Ralph-n-Bev]

I’m sure I got a link saying Aldi had one in online last week. Might be worth checking out .

 

[Jaws]

I am looking to buy my first 3d printer, once I get to grips with the system I want to have the leeway to be able to print big!!

For a first machine I have been looking at the cheaper Chinese examples, including this one

Any thoughts ???

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How much !!!! Greedy sods !!
Those ones are £150 to £225 on banggood.com

 

[MR. FUSION]

Can it make a Hymer for me please?

I expect in the future they will be made by some sort of printing process and run on little electric motors ?

 

[MR. FUSION]

How much !!!! Greedy sods !!
Those ones are £150 to £225 on banggood.com

£431 there
I looked at the print results of the cheaper ones, a lot of rubbing down of the print deposits was required on most. The chiron appears smoother

 

[Onemanandhisdog]

It would be handy to be able to print broken plastic bits in the moho, but then I'm thinking you would need a 3d scanner to scan a 'good one' to print a replacement, then it all starts getting a bit involved and expensive.

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[Jaws]

It would be handy to be able to print broken plastic bits in the moho, but then I'm thinking you would need a 3d scanner to scan a 'good one' to print a replacement, then it all starts getting a bit involved and expensive.

That what has stopped me investing in one... Never could get my head around 3d plotting

 

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[PhilG]

It would be handy to be able to print broken plastic bits in the moho, but then I'm thinking you would need a 3d scanner to scan a 'good one' to print a replacement, then it all starts getting a bit involved and expensive.

And this is the issue, it can print anything but you have to get the file for it first. That's the hard bit.

Been working with 3d printing on and off since 2001. Validating the material is the bit that gets expensive too, stuff we have been doing in Ti needs a £1m Xray machine to check it for holes.

 

[davanne]

I think Puddleduck has a 3D printer

 

[MR. FUSION]

It would be handy to be able to print broken plastic bits in the moho, but then I'm thinking you would need a 3d scanner to scan a 'good one' to print a replacement, then it all starts getting a bit involved and expensive.

I have a 3d scanner built into a wacom tablet

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[MR. FUSION]

Don't buy the filament version, go for the resin one, it has a much better finish. My son has a small one that can print up to 10cm square or thereabouts. The filament ones have to be finished by hand to smooth out all the tiny tiny ridges of the layers but the resin ones print bottom up and rise out of the liquid resin bath so don't have any ridges. His is also made by Anycube.

Having looked at that resin system I dont think its going to work with flexi plastics, which is what I want to work with initially.

 

[tonyl]

Hi,

I've got an older Anycubic (i3 Mega) and have been pleased with it for the last year and a half. I don't spend lots of time printing, so haven't really found the limitations of the one I bought yet. The only issue I've had was with the 'wood' material, which gummed up the extruder nozzle. These are cheap to replace and I found out subsequently that I should have used one with a bigger diameter for the wood material. I haven't tried flexible materials but there is an official modification to the extruder on my unit which should make it work better with such stuff.

I read the review. One comment I would make is that it's a very big printer. Mine has an operating volume of 50% of each of those dimensions. If you don't have something in mind to print at that size, it's going to take up an awful lot of desk/workshop space. If you do want to use all that volume, the other thing you will need is lots of time/patience. Printing takes a long time and slowing some of the operations down helps with final quality. I read about various models catching fire if something goes wrong, so never leave mine running overnight. The other thing to note is that it is helpful to have a decent number of other users of the same machine, to fine tune the slicing software, suggest hardware modifications, etc.

Now someone above has mentioned that resin printers are affordable, I want one!

Tony

 

[irnbru]

Puddleduck has a 3d printer.

 

[GJH]

thanks I will have a look at that type

This is the one that Jill mentioned - Amazon product ASIN B07DLRGWVV

 

[Guigsy]

I got an early Printrbot a few years ago. It ended up being a great hobby of trying to print and buy new parts to make it accurate and reliable enough to make anything useful. Still fun.

I then upgraded to a Prusa MK2 (kit). Straight from the first print it was better than my Printrbot. It's rare that I get a failure now. And the MK3 is supposed to be even better.

3d printers can do lots of stuff. What do you want to use it for? If it's small (<100mm cube) artsy stuff, then a resin printer might be the way to go. If it's practical larger stuff then filament deposition is still the way to go. Lots of people only ever print stuff they find on Thingiverse.com . I design things in Fusion360, FreeCAD and OpenSCAD. I've uploaded a few of them:

GuigsyUK's Thingiverse Profile

Learn more about GuigsyUK on Thingiverse.

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[Puddleduck]

I have the Balco as sold by Aldi of all places

We are just about to leave for the Fife Rally so will write more when we get back.

 

[Puddleduck]

Ours will nominally print a 20 cm cube but it would take a long time and a lot of material!

 

[Guigsy]

Ours will nominally print a 20 cm cube but it would take a long time and a lot of material!

Agreed. I recently designed an arm to mount a 5" rear view display to the windscreen. Had to be long enough to get through the blinds. 3 iterations to get it right. 5 hours each print. Loooong!

 

[Jaws]

Ok, with many who know the ropes, I would love a blow by blow 'how to get started' article.
Everything I look at goes on about the machine..
I am more interested in what goes on BEFORE you get to that stage..
i.e. exactly HOW do you get the file that tells the machine what to print.

lots of references to various cad programs ( which never fail to defeat me ) and scanning often mentioned, but for the total novice no nut and bolt details

I am sure I am not alone with this.. I would love to get a printer as I can think of an awful lot of uses, but am daunted by the prospect of lobbing out the loot and ending up with a nice ornament, unable to make any use of it

 

[Bob Morrison]

This is a timely thread as I too have just considered getting started in 3d printing which was triggered by the Aldi offering which is now £250 - down £50 on last year. I think it's something my grandchildren will enjoy too.
Found lots of info on YouTube - one of the most useful called "13 things I wish I knew when I started" or something like that!
Lots of reviews on there too, which has got me seriously considering one of the various "Creality" models or one of the "Prusa" offerings along with "Cura" slicer software which creates the coordinates for each layer or slice.

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