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i just got mine and im so exited to do a build with it

The wall inaccuracy looks just like the time my hotend mount was loose and could wiggle a little back and forth. Is there any kind of motion slop?

Can you sell me template file? :) too lazy to do it from scratch

Or you can get the MegaPro ratcheting screwdriver that this and the LTT one are based on.

Why belts? Just put 4 motors and 4 leadscrews. I use 2 motors and 2 leadscrews for 310x310 printer and it works fine. Bed tilt is corrected with BLTouch before each print.

"Why I smell so bad" is that i read

I really love the oldschool style build and pronterface! I think I prefer this style of machine to the Voron style where every part has 250 strange decorative angles and fillets. Every modern machine looks like it is designed by marketing, even if it is an open source project...complete with RGB light-up logos. Ugh.

NEVER build an hbot they are shit. i tried one once and it had terrible racking, definately go corexy.

cantilever bed bad :D but i would be too lazy to run the belts and connecting rods and just throw 4 steppers at it. One for each corner and just let klipper do the rest. There is also a big difference between the hobby "3d printing" and the tool "3d printer". Some people want both and i hope that most people will realize this and the difference between both

Actually I like a smal bed on a big printer. I am about to build a RatRig VCore 3.1 500 - so 500 by 500 bed. However, as the bed is quite big, but most prints are not, heating this bed is quite an energy waste. As the VCore 3.1 has a quite uniqe bed movement system (the best imho), the bed is actually not mounted but having 3 balls lying on smal rods and hold by magnets. So you can actually simply use a connector for the (AC) heated bed and the thermistor and just remove the whole bed. So if designing sort of adapter to mount a smaller bed, it would be easy to change it.

I think this video is really sad... I appreciate the sentiment of keeping old "traditions" and whatnot alive. But a 3d printer is a tool. A tool to create amazing projects, other tools, jigs, sculptures, prototypes for products. It's a way of bringing your ideas in the real life. What you're talking about is just about making a 3d printer, tinkering with it, spending 100's of hours just to make the tool work and verify your time spent with a calibration cube or a bracket for the 3d printer itself. It's like a woodworker spending all of his time in the shop building a lathe and then never making a bowl with it, or just making a sander to prove you can make a sander, which i think defeats the whole purpose of the tool. People that spent years building 3d printers look down on us makers for just wanting a tool that works and does what it was designed to do. It's very weird. I've had people and friends tell me that i need to start on an ender and spend weeks just to learn how the tool works like it's a rite of passage or something. I understand how the tool works, i appreciate the time people spent in the last 10-15 years laying the foundation for what 3d printing is today, but please don't judge people for just wanting to create stuff and not having to deal with making that tool work first.

There is huge difference between 3d printing stuff and fixing your 3d printer. When I buy something I expect a finished product. Most 3D printers used to require various modifications and fixes. Now it's a finished product that just does its job and I'm happy.

We have been lucky enough to experience the beginning of 3D printing. Let's not lose the illusion, let's take one of those new pre-assembled machines without soul and let's make modifications and improvements until they come to life like the ones of yesteryear. 😉

It's like cars for some the car is a hobby and for others they use cars to get to their hobbies. I have a vw that I tinker with and a suv that I get from point A to point B

I agree with your statement but don't forget that 3D printing is not all about being able to build 3D printers or crafting them. Some people just want to print stuff and don't want the hustle of dealing with maintenance nightmare.

3D printers in the beginning were about the 3D printers, today those printers are advanced and allowed us to care about the 3D print over the 3D printer; and I think that's great. You know how many hours wasted on my past printers trying to figure out why the prints failed? To figure out what part needed to he tightened, loosened, replaced or upgraded or all of the above 😅 I don't miss those days. Yes it's sad to have a 3D printer graveyard but at the same time I live my Bambu!! It just prints ... it wasn't until my wife convinced me to get it that I realized that I forgot the whole reason for 3D printing is the prints and not the printer

Speaking for Voron, you don't need to get a kit or all that expensive stuff like Duet. It is designed to be build worldwide. You want to cut your extrusions yourself? Go for it, the lengths are given. Want to use ramps? Do it, old klipper Vorons all had ramps boards. The community will help you if they are able to.

I appreciate that for you, the printer is the hobby. But for me, and all the other "newbs" printers are a tool. Like my hammer, drill, or dish washer. They make my life easier and make my projects easier.

Interesting perspective. But hey, you could still build a Voron Legacy powered by a RAMPS board. Does Aliexpress ship to ZA? And if they do, how likely is it that the goods get stolen before they reach you?

Similar trajectory as the photography industry. 3D printers are becoming commodities. 3D printers are becoming accessible to non tech. My 3D printer is not my hobby. It enables my other hobbies. Where you see loss, and I get it, I see huge gain for the consumer.

I think the culture is alive just in the Voron, Annex, Cocoa Press, etc. I just recently built my Cocoa Press and the first thing I did was make a list of things I could do to improve it to contribute back to the community.

it's the same as cars, used to be you could modify your car a lot... now you can't do anything to them since it's all software based although after buying a Creality K1 Max I'm actually mildly impressed by how far the technology has come

I owned a creality CR10 for 7-years. It worked fine, did the job, but was always needing work. Print quality was okay (8 out of 10). About 4 months ago, I bought a Bambu P1s with the AMS and I have to say, until you own one, you can't possibly understand how much better the technology has become. Speed is many times faster. Print quality is many times better. The AMS allows me to print from for spools all from with the software. It really is a night and day experience. I no longer need to mess with hardware. The printer does it all and I have no issues with that whatsoever! It's like computers - some people enjoy building there own PC's, but some people just want to use the darn things.

Its the difference between people who want 3d printing as a hobby, or people who just want to print things for other hobbies. Too many times I've heard, get printer A, then make sure to do upgrades X, Y, Z. I've been part of the reprap community since fairly near to the start (built a huxley many years ago) but just bought a bambu because its an out of the box experience (also built a voron). Theres still room for the tinkering, but some people just want a printer they can buy and print with, without learning about the guts of it.

I think the traditional hobby side is very much still alive and well(and id even say thriving), its just heavily overshadowed by a lot of these new printers that have brought the barrier to entry to a point where even the most non technical folks can have a good time with them. I think that's brought a different kind of user that looks at 3d printers as a tool rather than a hobby in and of itself.

I don't think that's true actually, it's just what's popular, but the total space of the reprap style building is significantly bigger then ever. It just mostly takes place on discord, github, printables etc and UA-cam instead of forums. Totally agree on the voron/diycorxy parts list being insane, I have been working on a minimal part count printer for a while now, kinda stuck in perfectionism but that will pass 😅

The community still has the power to transform 3d printing once again. Why? Because Bambulab, AnkerMake and Creality only want to make money. These companies innovate very little. Now Bambu does innovate more than the others and that's why they are the number one brand right now, but still they mostly productize ideas others came up with. 3d printers aren't anywhere near becoming appliances. Ultimaker tried to make it an appliance and failed, the community work generated better 3d printers than Ultimaker ever could with their appliance focus and proprietary designs. They sure made 3d printers that were useful for numerous businesses, but now they may loose their market because from the moment they released their Ultimaker 3 (I think it was 2016) to this day they innovated very little (Ultimaker Cura did progress a lot, but it is open source). The Voron community innovates a lot, but they have become a business for 3rd party companies. There seems to be a belief that more expensive parts will create the ultimate 3d printer, but they just make for expensive and complex printers not everyone can assemble, so the movement lost steam. Innovation is what will create the ultimate 3d printers, not serial numbers. So what does innovation looks like? I don't know but for sure it will be prototyped with an arduino based or other open source microcontroller boards with steppers such as the ramps.

You are not alone my Friend. During the holiday period I fired up my dusty 12 year old RepRap and got printing. Probably got mild ABS poisoning ;) Damn, its older than my kids! Its clunky, there are wires everywhere (electronics is Gen 7 for those who remember), but "I" made it - and it works, and its awesome! And I got a fun toy project for the little ones. Keep it up man, and happy New Year wishes from Poland!

I got into 3d printing when I could buy an Anet A8, I bought it just to try it out, (most people seemed to print figurines which didn't interest me at all but i liked the technology) As it seemed to be so useful, I slowly started to upgrade it, replacing everything, increasing safety (Anet A8 was famous for burning down houses) I upgraded it to what's called an AM8 with printed parts and extruded aluminium. Replaced the Anet board with a ramps. This printer has been a beast, I've used if for the past 6-7 years, perfectly tuned and prints better than what some colleagues print with a 6k+ printer. (but mostly because they don't take the time learn the limits) But it is slowly starting to decay, i've been thinking of a new DIY 3d printer project, completely designing one from scratch is way over my head. But like you say, interesting DIY projects have become rare. I'm not willing to just get $1000 in parts like a voron. Though i haven't looked in-depth, but affordable mid-range diy projects have become rarer and rarer. Or at least they they disappear in the swamp of big commercial products.

I just got one for Christmas and I tried using auto for supports, but it seems to only print the raft and then as it continues nothing else prints. Could it be an issue with the auto generate with the supports as you discussed in this video?

In the rotation portion, you mis identified the +- 90 degree buttons. They ARE relative to the current position, but the ABSOLUTE degree is just to the right of those, and as the Mew was sitting, it shows -48.00 degrees absolute. You could put that to zero (0) and it would sit flat on the plate.

That DGC sticker 100% confirms you are from South Africa. 😂

Still good tutorial. Thx

Pay attention where you put the supports. It has to be closest to the part that is the most red. (((You want the support attached at the very first layer that will print on that part of the model))) ( That is the key) . If your support is a little off, you run the risk of nothing attaching there because the print started without a support there,

Perfect.Thanks

I know you made it awhile back but I just recently bought a printer and found this video very helpful

Here is where I'm having problems, it won't open the files I can't drag and drop I can't even click open then click the file I had to copy everything to the file on the you drive that said slicer software, once I did that it would at least let me access or rather the files would at least show up to be clicked on but then when I would open them it would just say wrong file I managed to get one of the files to actually open and show up but other than that it wouldn't open any of the files I don't get it if this helps at all I've downloaded them from 3d cults.

Where do you get files for printing? Can you design your own?

Great video thank you. I got my Creality Mage Halot this week, and I'm still struggling to get this slicing software supplied with it downloaded, registered and actually functional! Your clear explanation of the shortcomings and pitfalls is proving very helpful. Suggestion: stop swirling so much with the mouse cursor, it gives me vertigo, lol!

Hi there! I have a question, i recently got a creality LD-002H and i was wondering if its possible to pause a print and resume after the machine was turned off?

Is there anyway to smooth out the models cuz I have the Goku model and it keeps coming out blocky while on blender it’s a different story

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Good review

whats the origin settings for? the rest is easy to understand. Im looking to change my rest area so I can clean the nozzle without having to go from printing to tools.

The section on supports would have been much more helpful if you had talked in specifics about the angles, scales and distances over which support is effective. I just did auto-support on the supplied rook model and it added support to the lettering protruding less than a millimetre at 90 degrees. Does that really need support? In your example, you said that some overhangs were too extreme, but what is the criteria?

Can't believe these clowns want $200 a YEAR for the pro version of this software!

How do you upload a file from a different source?

Is it normal for chitubox to take forever on a slice?

have the same problem for my shaper origing. Want a small text, 4mm high) single line, only the tip of the ingravingtool going in the wood (60° cutter) In fusion, you can choose the text with "shx" in the end. All single line text (it's all the first fonds that you see) But I have the problem now that it will not ingrave all the text.

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