Yup. I had to explain to someone the other day that pretty much everything Bambu have done to shake-up the industry is ultimately the result of RepRap innovation.
Yes and no. The patent expiring was the main reason people could make cheap printers. It helped initially build a supply of parts but the self replicating part was a hindering limit for years. It was an unobtainable goal that delayed the switch to more traditional mass production techniques that are cheaper and faster. This is part of the price difference between Prusa and other printers. When I talked to Joe about injection modeling he claimed that it was cheaper to print but they have silently admitted that’s not true with how they spun up their filament line as seen in the Strange Parts tour. I enjoyed my time in the community and the people I met. A lot of good work happened. It was fun and engaging for people who are not professional engineers to work in design. The era of Reprap is over and imo thats a good thing because it allows space for what’s next.
Thanks again Angus for running one of the most balanced 3d printing channels on youtube, and for always staying focused on the human side of making. All I hope for in 2024 is user-friendly CAD that isn't tied to a subscription. Printers are so easy to use now, sure wish CAD would catch up.
7:22 I would REALLY love to see a company release an affordable machine to recycle filament. I feel like I wasting so much filament on supports, brims, purge lines, and failed prints (and I know you X1 Carbon users have all your “poop”🤣) I wouldn’t mind paying $300+ for a home unit to recycle my PLA. I feel like it’s a goldmine if a company would take charge and perfect it because every hobbyist would instantly purchase one
Same here. I don't even print that often, but I want to live sustainably, and having so much plastic waste goes against my ethos there. Even if I never see the ROI for a filament recycler, that'll be a few kilos of plastic that'll never be in the ecosystem. And that idea is enough incentive for me to want one.
@@DavidNightjet and if such a product were to come out, it would be a win for just about everyone🤣 It’s a win for the manufacturer because it’s an untapped market, it’s a win for us consumers because we can cut down on buying filament, and it’s a win for the environment. The only one not winning would be the filament companies🤣 (but even then, it’s not like we would completely stop buying filament)
@@flyingfortress4819 One of the popular 3d printer youtubers did a review on one recently but it was 600 Euro's and didn't include a grinder. A $300USD version with a grinder? that would sell like hotcakes, I'd buy two immediately.
Non planier 3d printing i think is going to really take off. I've been seeing a lot of coverage on it lately, and it's advantages are enormous when working with plastics. Being able to shape the loading structures to exactly the application of force instead of trying to find a way to print it so the layers don't peal is going to be a big one.
I disagree. While hardware side of user experience is almost solved, the 3d object side is still lacking, without light in sight. There are no unified standards of design guidlines for fdm printing. Like 80% of models are just 3d objects, not items that are designed for fdm printing. For a beginner, it still takes a lot of hours of fiddling in slicer.
I started 3D modeling in 2017 and the first video I watched was your 101 videos. Today I am making my living doing just that. Content creation, and designing. I said this on my channel when Bambu came out. To become a social media influencer today, you have to learn CAD. It’s far less about the printers and the ability to get them to work. Thanks Angus for everything. You’ve been so supportive of me personally, just by interacting on X and TikTok. Plus your fusion clases sparked my interest and now I work from home and am creating all day, everyday!
I have been watching you for many many years and really continue to appreciate your content. But what I really value is knowing the level of integrity you work with, and the joy you exude when you find and want to share something cool
That printed tool steel part is really interesting to me. I'll have to look at those more closely. My biggest concern for printing going forward is the increased control we're seeing companies wanting to exert over their products after we've bought them. I don't want 3d printers to become like regular printers, where you have to use their repository and their filament and their slicer. I don't think it'll be that bad, but it does seem to be heading that direction to some degree.
That's a very good point, and something that most be avoided at all costs. A truly nightmare scenario would be to have to pay for a subscription for a proprietary slicer.
Yep. This is why I have strict open-source buying constraints. Back when I got my printer, I eventually bumped up my price range to get a Prusa MK3 kit rather than buy something else and improve it because I wanted that trust, I wanted a product that served me and only me, where I could work both with the community AND with the manufacturer together, rather than having to play them against each other to get what I wanted.
Agreed. As someone who used to own a xyz printing da vinci 3d printer I know how much it sucks. I do worry that too many people wont care enough about maintaining open source and as everything becoming very limited by brand. This in the long run will probably lead to the cheapest 3d printers being the ones with closed source code and require dedicated software or even licenses to use.
I really appreciate your discussion on valid reviews and trust. I've observed several folks transition to OBVIOUS paid sponsorship yet dance around it or straight up deny it. Yet they have trips and exclusives etc assumedly paid for. Then a hugely positive review come out later with zero negatives... Hopefully it stays this obvious and doesn't become as difficult as you predict to spot them. Thanks for the insight over 10 years!
I was curious about 3D printing for years and often asked colleagues or family who owned 3D printers and knew how to work them to print things for me. Just a year ago my neighbour lended me their cheap 3D printer and I got much more into fiddling with slicers and models, going so far to asking my employer to let me borrow the Prusa MK3S that was bought for one project and has been collecting dust since. That one is now in my basement and I've recently decided to start learning CAD - only because the Prusa was finally the one printer that *just works*. There are so many things I printed around that just make life more fun… organization tools (Ikea Skadis is a life changer!), household stuff like towel hangers, toys for my kids, a DIY gun stock for my VR headset, the list goes on. This year I want to make my own models, especially a travel case for a mechanical keyboard I designed and other things that hopefully help other people as well. I LOVE this hobby. I would love to have tinkering with printers as a hobby, but I just don't have the time (guess I fall into the tool user category?). I was a bit shocked how well I fit into your 2023 predictions :D Just subscribed to the channel, I have a feeling your content might be very relevant to my interests in the next months.
Regarding cherry-picked samples, that's exactly why LTT does their "Secret Shopper" series every few years with PC building companies (and one so far where they did some of their sponsors as well). If it's addressed to either the company, Linus, or any of the other well-known employees, they have no way of knowing for sure if it's a regular item off the shelf that anybody could've gotten, or if it was chosen specifically to go to them. This is the same reason Todd from Project Farm always buys everything he tests in his videos instead of companies sending him the products directly Now obviously, not every 3D printing channel would be able to afford to buy every printer they want to test like LTT does with the PCs in Secret Shopper (buying all the Bambu printers alone would be almost $3200 USD, not including any AMS or AMS lite. And that's only one brand of many), but it really is the best way to make sure you're not getting any special treatment from the companies
Two clarifications: 1. LTT will only do such expensive projects as long as they can find an unrelated sponsor willing to pay for the project and the manhours in return for advertising (Linus has said something to that effect multiple times, they're not a hobby shop anymore and have to stay profitable) and 2. Project Farm did accept a shipped-before-public-availability LTT screwdriver, although he also did pay retail price for it (according to Linus on the WAN Show, LTT-s weekly podcast). So there is some leeway there, in theory Linus could have cherry-picked the review sample. Not to suggest foul play, just to keep facts as factual as reasonably possible.
It's been a long time since LTT/LMG did those kinds of projects. Gamers Nexus is now the gold standard for PC secret shopping and general games journalism, and their series where they buy prebuilt PCs has some wild stuff.
I used to buy plastic electronic enclosure boxes at the price of an arm and a leg from Digikey and alike. No more, after building my own Prusa RepRap in 2008. It actually printed ABS pretty good since there was no PLA at that time at reasonable prices. No more putting up with plain boxes, when I can design anything I want and have it ready the next day. Not to mention gears that are impossible to make any other way. So 3D printing has saved me lots of $$$ and made me "be creative through technology".
I used to LOVE the tinkering with 3D printers, but my hobbies have evolved. 3D printing is a tool more than a hobby in itself, and I want to use it for my other hobbies. I'm at a point where I just want a printer that works, looking to get a Bambu P1S later this year.
Wow! almost 10 years. I remember seeing your videos way before I ever got into 3d printing. You are a UA-cam legend and it has been a pleasure to follow your journey thus far.
11:44 - The finest moment of this video, and perhaps the finest moment I have seen in any Maker's Muse video. "So my question to you is: what are you going to do about it? Are you going to argue with people online about what brand is better? Or are you going to just suck it up, learn CAD, and make something awesome? The choice is yours." My hope for 2024 is that the 3D community takes this advice to heart. Happy New Year, Angus!
I have been studying mechanical engineering in college and was taught to use onshape, and i personally believe that it is 90% of what any average person would need for free, and with no requirement for a high powered computer. I have had to use fusion for a few projects, and while I can totally see how it is far more powerful than onshape, onshape is still my preferred cad software.
I also started with Onshape. I really enjoyed the learning process with the interactive courses they offer for free. Last year I learned how to use CAD from zero in about 1,5 Weeks of holidays. Now I design and print practical stuff for me and others.
My son got me a Bambu P1P for Christmas. As most say, it was awesome out of the box... not perfect, but very satisfying to tinker more with predictable software settings than the physical aspects of the printer. The A1 recall says it all about Bambu Labs. They were very honest and forthcoming about the problems. Now THAT impressed me! Most companies fight tooth and nail to do the opposite. I don't believe in being a fanboy, but rather I think honest companies deserve support... at least until they change.
The issue of reviews becoming biased is a very real thing that's dangerous for the hobby as it becomes mainstream. Teaching Tech, another youtuber, has a fantastic way of handling this in the form of a rigorous review policy every company he works with has to agree to. That way I am guaranteed that the reviews on his channel are honest, unbiased and rigorous. I value that kind of transparancy a lot.
Some companies have the same kind of review contracts/agreements. I believe Teaching Tech showed the one from Bambu Lab, where they say you won't get any money to say nice things. You just get the printer and you have to report your experience with that device. They won't try to influence that. That's good. I think they do this because a lot of people like to look for negative stuff to say about BL.
The problem is that nobody is completely unbiased. Everyone has biases whether they admit it or not. You get hardware worth over $1000 for free and you get a commission when a device is sold via your affiliate link. This means you don't view any flaws as critically as you would if you had had to buy the device. That's simply human nature.
@@PhilippensTube Bambu Lab is not as forgiving as you might think. They have already banned UA-camrs from the affiliate programme and future reviews because they were critical of Bambu Lab. One UA-camr accidentally published his review video a day early for his patrons. The partnership was terminated with immediate effect. They had previously invited him to their headquarters and paid for his flight and hotel for him and his family. Now he is trying to get back in Bambu Lab's good graces.
@@andreas.grundlerI don't talk about forgiving. And the one case of the breach of NDA I know about and I stand by Bambu in that matter. You agree to keep to the embargo (there's nothing wrong woth an embargo) and when you breach that, you got to live with the consequences. I'm not familiar with the case of the youtube who got 'banned' for being negative. If you say it like that, it sounds harsh, but I don't know the details. If the criticism is correct, then it's not ok for them to ban him. But when it's nonsense or overly critical, I can understant it. There are many UA-camrs reviewing 3D printer stuff and some of them are just not able to make a coherent and professional review. I saw one of them, who in my opinion looked like he was paid by Creality to promote the K1 because he was constantly praising the K1 and cherry pick for faults on the Bambu. I'm not a member of the Bambu Fanclub, so I don't mind when somebody has negative points, but it has to be right. Fortunately, a few videos later he seemed to have corrected himself and he was more positive about the Bambu Lab printer. Or rather, more realistic. What amazed me is that he was the only one (or one of the few) who was positive about the K1, where a lot of reviewers had problems with it. There's also one who can't seem to get his hands on a working copy of a Bambu Lab printer. Which is weird, when 'the whole world' is raving about these machines. I had a pre order for a Prusa XL, which is still a machine that I'd like to have. But I cancelled because I didn't want to wait any longer. And when it finally came (I wanted the one with the 5 heads) it wasn't working properly. I believe it is now, after x-firmware updates. In the end I decided to get a Bambu Lab X1C and I'm still happy with that decission. I works perfectly fine straight out of the box.
@@PhilippensTube The UA-camrs I was talking about are Nathan Builds Robots and Nero3D. Both have criticized Bambu Lab for lack of network security and data protection. Initially, for example, you had to create an account in the Bambu Lab Cloud to set up the printer and the Lan mode was much more limited than it is now. After some criticism, they changed that. Nathan Builds Robots has made some somewhat sarcastic videos about Bambu Lab, but that's his style. He has always complimented the quality of the machines and even recommends them. But apparently that's not enough. His last attempt was driving for 4 hours to the nearest Microcenter and buying a A1 with his own money to review the printer. They kicked him from the affiliate programme after he released the video. The printers are good but I am very critical of the company as such and the company policy.
About recycling: here in Denmark we have what we call "pant" on most beverage containers. If, for example, you buy 6 sodas at your local supermarket you pay 1 DKK (~0.22 AUD) for each can in addition to the price of the soda, but you can then take back your cans when they're empty to that (or any other) supermarket and get back your 6 DKK pant. Many people also leave their cans/containers on the street which will then get collected by poor/homeless people who will cash in the pant. Win-win 🙂 Nice video, by the way 👍 EDIT: Just read that Danes handed in 1.4 billion deposit eligible bottles and cans in 2019 😁♻
3:04 How do the oscillations of the printer affect the quality of the print? Is that table special for 3D printing and vibration isolation? I don’t know about 3D printing, but I wonder if the 3D printer oscillating, like we see in the video, is bad for the print. Will this be a solution? Attach the 3D printer to a big mass (+30 kg) (steel plate, marble block, etc). Put the mass+printer over very low rigid mounts (soft springs or soft rubber foot). Or just place your 3D printer over a rubber mat in your kitchen worktop.
I would really like to see FreeCAD get some extra coverage on your channel, while clearly not the easiest to use, also quite unstable in certain situations, it definitely improved a lot in the last years, and its future progress heavily depends on an ever growing userbase. And as the name suggests, it's free for personal use, free for commercial use, and will stay free no matter what, it's a no-brainer IMO, as there's no gamble like with Fusion or Onshape or whatever else, that can go off-limits or just prohibitively expensive for the average hobbyist whenever the owner chooses to. I don't care about the fancy features, I would never base my workflow on software like that. I feel so lucky I didn't fall for those and instead kept learning this kinda weirdly built, but very capable package.
Being on a massive FOSS run lately, I have to second that. FreeCAD is aiming for a v 1.0 release in 2024 and hopefully it will release with a new integrated assembly and maybe a UI/UX overhaul. Its going to be an amazingly powerful tool, it just need to get some more love from the youtube creators.
@@HenrikSyvertsen Dunno about all the bells and whistles, the single biggest issue at this point is its instability. Seems like a complex issue, many types of operations go off the track all the time, some cause segfaults, some infinite loops, it's practically a part of the workflow... Only workaround is saving a lot, the internal recovery mechanism is just not up to the task. This really needs to be fixed, and until then, heavily stressed for new users, otherwise it gets frustrating quite fast, and I can't blame them.
@@matwyder4187I've been using FreeCAD on Windows for 3 years now, and haven't really had stability issues with the last two releases. 0.21 is very stable and usable once you get used to the UI. I've seen discussion on a bunch of UI improvements slated for the 0.22 release, so 2024 will be a good year hopefully!
@@matwyder4187for me personally, FreeCAD is running very smoothly and I only rarely have crashes. I think the biggest thing holding it back is its usability. Starting with the TopoNaming issue (whose improvements will hopefully be released soon), but also needing to install (and learn) one of multiple third party Plugins for building assemblies, the inability to simply rotate bodies and in general the complicated and complex UI sometimes make it a real headache to use.
KiCAD got popular when they ditched the "our way is better" mentality where a new user was basically SOL because nothing conformed to UI standards developed over decades. FreeCAD is currently in the middle of a similar issue, where, having a few years of parametric modelling under one's belt, you open freeCAD, and then stare at it, because it looks like basic tools you need (sketch, extrude, turn) either don't exist, or are part of different plugin or toolsets or whatever that only vaguely interact with each-other in interesting but non-useful ways. There was a KiCAD plugin for FreeCAD to make and adjust 3D bodies of components... And I avoided it like the plague, because it was invariably faster to make them out of geometric primitives in KiCAD itself.
I've wanted to jump into 3D printing for ages, and finally made the leap last year based on your review of the Ender 3 v3 SE. Specifically, it was because you'd *also* done an honest, less-than-glowing review of previous Creality models, and talked about the areas Creality improved for this one. Thanks for putting out straightforward, honest content. You're making this hobby accessible to so many of us bots ... I mean real humans.
About recycling. I feel like we're reaching that point in the consumer 3d printing space where a lot of old 3d printers are becoming obsolete and get thrown away. I have my first 3d printer which is sitting in a corner in my garage because it is too old (Rumba board, spring calibration, no heated bed, ecc), small, and unreliable to be of use right now. I also don't trust it enough to gift (or sell) it to someone in need of a 3d printer. But I still think there's some value in there and that it doesn't belong to a landfill (nothing does). The motors, drivers and some mechanical parts could still be used for other projects, but I wasn't able (or skilled enough) to think of something useful myself. I've seen some really interesting videos in 2023 (the old ender 3 to filament recycler comes to mind), but for 2024 I'd love to see more ideas for upcycling old 3d printers
You could definitely sell it, just probably not for anywhere close to what you bought it for. I personally like buying broken 3D printers on the cheap from eBay or OfferUp and getting them working and upgrading them. People also like to turn them into PET pultrusion machines to make filament out of PET bottles. Printers that have been torn down and repurposed for this don't really need to be top of the line, in fact, the simpler in function, the better. Also, there's the salvage value. I've seen some that are broken and are being sold for just less than the cost of the stepper motors. If I'm looking to build my own printer, that could be an easy win.
@@lajoyalobos2009I like that idea. I’m a print seller enthusiast (though with not much space) and I’d love to ask my community in a few months or so if there are 3D printers they’ve given up on sitting in a garage. It would be a win-win. The seller gets extra cash and less to worry about, and I get a new printer.
I also had an old 3d printer which I wanted to give away. But then I counted the price for stepper motors, electronics, shaft etc and reliased that it all worth at least $80. So, I put it with price $100 on local flee market site, and it was bought pretty soon. Now I can spend those money for spear parts for my new printer. So, just sell your with the price of parts, in any case it is better than storing it in the garage.
@@lajoyalobos2009 I thought about selling it (or giving it away) as "for parts" to someone who could reuse the components, since I don't think it is worth upgrading as a 3d printer, you should change so many parts it would be simpler to start new. But didn't find anyone interested nearby. I guess in 2024 I'll take the time to see if I can repurpose the components for a PET pultrusion or filament recycling machines (like the ones CNC kitchen tested)
I only had my 3D printer for a little over 2 years (QIDI X-Plus) and loving it. What is so cool about 3d printers is that I just moved into my new home and while slowly moving in used the 3d printer to create useful tools around the new house. Some items have been: custom stand for the two center speakers; Wall monitor mount for my 27" monitor to watch birds; wire supports to hide all computer cables; Camera mount for the webcam; glow in the dark bird feeder; 7' wide flatbed window mounted bird feeder; custom letter holder to place outside; and last currently working on a Squirrel running toy. This all in the FIRST month of living here. :) Design all in FreeCAD.
I 1000% think we are going to see more of a boom with AI 3D Models or someone like Adobe incorporating a basic AI gen into their 3D Modeler software as a starting point for sculpting. I’m also going to scream if Resin Printer heated vats aren’t standard in 2024 🤣😂
@@leanja6926 For sure. It can be a great starting point for a sculpt already, who cared if there are 7 fingers, just go in and clean that shit up but you don´t have to design the initill couple of hours. I just don´t see how CAD will be easily replaced now, you will need to tell the design intent of the person to the machine ...that is basically what CAD is. Also CAD is hard, I just wish they would finally improve alrady existing expensive solutions like CATIA and NX instead of those shitty solution where the tree is missing and nothing is parametric but it´s cheap ..wow great ..
Thanks for posting the video. You have raised some very valid points here. For our business, 3D printing has completely changed the way we manufacture parts for our products. Earlier we used to manufacture most parts from aluminum, with processes like milling and turning followed by post processes like anodizing, painting etc. Now we just have to create the model in 3D and have it 3D printed.
You've been the pickiest reviewer since I started using a 3D printer. For that reason I trust your reviews more than most. Love the tips on printing different materials videos. Instead of just telling people to change settings to print something like TPU, you actually went through the trouble of explaining the behaviour of the material which helps understanding how to troubleshoot a problem instead of just changing a value and moving on. Please keep those videos coming.
8:33 totally agree with the recycling. Highly recommend if DIY PET bottle filaments. Easy to diy at home from old/spare 3d printer parts. The resulting filament prints well once you dial it in and woah is it tough and heat resistant. Has become my go to for parts that need to withstand heat over PETG
On the topic of reviews, I appreciate how open you are about the shady tactics that people use, like your 7 deadly sins of companies video from a while back. It really solidifies your integrity and makes me trust you more. The risk that comes with putting it out there gives me confidence you're not being misleading.
We just ran a new 3d printer this week and 10minute benchy ! WoW and no funny lines in the model so WoW, I'm blown away. Your right about the marketing companies are trying to contract and strong arm anyone doing reviews. Fact is now that if I check on a reviewer the first thing I do now is check to see the link he or she offers and if it's Zbanx, I know right away this one of those controlled reviews and to just pass up on it. One issue I'm not happy with at this point is slicer software is getting deeper with so many and then we have Fluid , Orca and in home slicers that are flavored off Cura or Prusa etc. I do wish cad would be more directly just for 3d printers and free or cheap etc. Fusion 360 is still my choice, but not happy about the prices. 2024 could see some interesting new items, let's hope so. Great video Angus like always. 🤠
I’m not a bot, I’m a real person😂 and I really appreciate your honesty and transparency. One of the best 3D printing yt channels. Keep up the good work
Oaiii Angus, this is exactly why i care about your uploaded content. You are as honest as you can possibly be and you are aware of the importance of the esthetic side in general. Rather than being greedy or just making a few bucks here and there for your own personal benefit. This isn’t even such a bad thing considering how much effort and dedication you’ve put into the entire journey of all the surprises and challenges you’ve brought together and out in the open…. This is an incredible amount of dedication and hours of your time that you’ve put in, it really is a huge achievement in my opinion. I can see how easy it entangled with each other in the process, one can call “just work” But you have a very kind human heart and keep approaching the ‘hobby’ instead of just trying to make a living out of it. This is fairly unique my friend! I’d say that anyone who has the same attitude towards 3d printing like you have and would love to start making similar uploads of his/her content they can take an example out of you. Whatever material benefit you might have taken out of it you fully deserve. Just because i’m sure you have done so many amazing tips and tricks plus thorough reviews of lots of different aspects of this gigantic hobby and loving every minute of it (i’m also sure that i can speak for a whole bunch of other people when i mention that you are genuinely…;) You’re passionated and knowledgeable expert level in what you’re posting so that makes sense for me to ‘feedback’ on your comment section. You deserve every bit of respect and i hope that you’re able to help others and me for as long as you think that’s possible m8!!!! I sincerely appreciate and respect what you’ve done and what you’re still doing. Cheers from the Netherlands Raymon
My prediction is that STL files will give way to STEP files (or at least I hope so) for sharing. Especially since Prusa Slicer, Bambu Slicer, Orca Slicer (and eventually Cura) can import them directly. STEP files are easier to Remix than STL files. I have also noticed that when using STEP files in slicers, they print faster, use less material and are more dimensionally accurate when printed. I'm hoping that the slicers will interpret STEP files more like CNC machining code with arc, circle, spline, etc. commands instead of averaged triangles.
Making a .STEP version of a 3d model is more time consuming and has it's limitations so it won't totally replace STLs but it's nice for things like boxes or other items that it has built in customization options.
@@hd-be7di I think we will have to agree to disagree. STEP files are easy to export from CAD programs. . More so for functional parts. I'm not sure of the workflow for say Blender (and other types of MESH editing programs) and those who use it for say "organic" objects (figurines, etc.) So, there will still be a need for STL for those types of prints. But those of us who do more functional prints I believe STEP files should be used instead of STL. But that's just my thoughts. ;)
I got my first 3D printer in December of 2023, a Bambu P1S with AMS. I have always been fascinated by 3D printing but I just don’t have the time to dedicate into tinkering to make it work. A friend got the Bambu and told me how easy it was and I gave it a shot. WOW! I have never enjoyed a hobby this much. The thing has been running non stop since I got it. I am hooked!!
I hope bad patents based off open source prior art won't be enforced. I worry that open community projects may have less room once Chinese manufacturers have to dodge patents and lock everything down.
@ivyr336 I'm talking if the likes of Bambulab consider suing flashforge or phrozen if they have a force gauge flow calibration function. All Chinese competitors
@ivyr336 careful what you wish for, itlf it wasn't creality ender 3 made it affordable and accessible 3d printing will not advance this fast since german and us based company sell thier printer for 1k +
@@doritosicecream2820 Creality is sluggish to open source their work, but at least they do it eventually. K1 value proposition is enhanced by moving to stock klipper
There's not a single consumer brand out there that services their own machines. It's all expected that it's the customers responsibility. Even Bambu which people seem to paint as the opposite when it very much isn't. There is 0 indication that this will change in 2024, the idea of not needing to tinker is literally a pipedream, when the entire printer is made from consumable parts save the frame. If you don't want to tinker? Buy a commercial machine with a hefty price tag (5000+) that pays for the service calls or don't get a 3d printer. It's really that simple. If you do want to tinker: Buy a cheap machine, see if you like the hobby, then just go all out, buy the best machine you can afford and if you can build it yourself, DO IT! It will be a rewarding experience, and usually saves some money. You will know how it works inside and out and maintenance downtimes will be reduced drastically as you won't be figuring stuff out on a finished machine working around other parts. I just don't see how you can own a consumer grade 3d printer and not tinker... it's part of the whole experience... at least to me.
@@thomaskletzl6493 I don't disagree at all, I'm 100% on the side of the consumer that this market should work like other markets, where products are backed up by warranty, repair, and service at the expense of the company for the entirety of the warranty period. But the fact of the matter is that's not reality, these Consumer-grade 3d Printer companies label everything as wear and tear. basically it's your fault it broke for using the machine as it was intended to be used. Some customers may get lucky, and w/e-printer-company will send them the parts they need replaced. The customer will still be expected to replace those parts themselves. I honestly thought Bambu was going to be different. They aren't. They are the same as everyone else. They had(have?) an office in Texas I figured they would be doing NA repairs there. But nope, it's just am office to say they have an office in the USA. I ordered a Bambu Printer, and to cancel that order I had to get Visa involved, Bambu is one of the worst companies I have ever dealt with in my life. They take an adversarial approach to customer relations and their community is one of, if not, the worst. I have never seen a community eat it's own like Bambu, their reddit is full of sycophants, and when ones machine breaks and they ask for help? They get jumped on like the broken legged blue creature from Galaxy Quest.
Your tips really helped me build my own printer a few years ago, so yeah, I keep telling new people in the hobby to watch your channel. Glad you keep the same spirit!
I think the winner of the repository wars is going to be won by the site that offers the best incentives to its user base. So far it looks like printables has the lead as far as that goes, but we'll see if/ how that changes moving forward.
It's going to be whoever builds a robust, integrated ecosystem around it. Basically doing what Apple/Google has done with their systems with all the seamless integrations and so on.
These greedy 3d printer manufacturers want to own everything... the printer sales AND the models... yea no that's why I prefer independent STL shops like gambody etc. Imagine one day BambuBob's STLs only work with BambuBob printers so you need a BambuBob printer to print it... f*** that
Makerworld is winning that easily. Printables is definitely second and has more models, but has nothing like the reward program Makerworld does, or the level of integration.
I bought an Original Prusa MK3 kit even though it was a bit outside my 'normal' price range because I wanted to support RepRap's brand of open-source and get something I could understand and trust at all levels, but after being built it's been nothing but rock-solid since (one part failure, but since the interface board was a standard RepRap part I could get a generic replacement from a local 3D printing store despite my remoteness.). I upgraded it to a MK3S since, and am very happy with it. I haven't really followed new developments since, but from I understand it's mostly speed and quality increases? I'm fine with what I have for now on that front, anyways. Features I hope come around in the future: -Closed-loop motion systems -- the Trinamic stepper drivers in my MK3S already have crude "that step didn't feel right, better rehome" through current sensing, proper motion tracking would be even better for making printers reliable in all circumstances. -Some kind of real-time monitoring of either filament cross-section (keeping in mind it may be out-of-round), or nozzle pressure or flow rate, rather than assuming a fixed relationship between extruder steps and material deposited. Coupled with existing volumetric extrusion slicing, this would allow the use of really poorly-toleranced (eg. cheaply home-recycled) filament with little or no degradation in print quality -- vital if home recycling is to take off like you (and I) hope. I know I've hoarded a lot of printer waste, and kind of stopped printing things for fun or practice (only printing things I actually need such as replacement parts) when my capacity for waste storage filled up, because I can't bring myself to actually throw it away. I sure hope the affordable recycling gear develops.
You mentioned about the recycling and the importance of that. Here in Finland we recycle almost everything and waste is not a problem, more likely it's huge business. Every household and every condominium has a multiple waste containers for each type of waste for example metals, plastic, bio, paper, glass etc.. we kind of recycle it all in some way. And the most cool thing where i'm most excited is that we can recycle our soda cans, water bottles, beer cans etc. and we get deposit payment of each unit which is around 10 cents. It may sound for a harsh job but it's really not.. once you get used to it :D
One prediction I have: We'll see more "fanboy wars" in the market. It already seems like any Prusa-related post I see on any platform is now quickly flooded with what can be best described as troll comments from BambuLab users, to the point that even though the BambuLab stuff looks very interesting (I'll probably look at picking up an A1 at some point to tinker with) I find myself wary of the possibility that even 3d printing is going to start turning into a toxic fandom.
Would be interesting to see if those Bambulab comments could be from a bot farm or not... these days a lot of fanboi comments, especially political ones (and big-time from crypto based videos) look to be bot generated.
As someone who is a strong advocate for Open Source, I worry about being one of those "toxic fans", but for Prusa instead of Bambo. While I have plenty of personal reasons to never buy a Bambo printer (or any closed source printer), I do hope people will help me avoid being toxic myself. The 3d space def doesn't need hostility or toxicity.
@@jelybrd - I would say its even worse than that. Angus talked about bot generated comments.. I think we are going into an era of AI based influencers which is the next evolutionary step beyond the bot farms. Comments would be one aspect in how these systems impact the population.
I started 3D printing for my FPV drone hobby. I have also found the honest guys on UA-cam for that hobby, and what the honest people do when their is a contract or any other control over reviews they call out the company and everyone knows to watch the reviews on that product. It does two things, first it makes it easy to find the influencers who are not honest and sell out. Second it backfires on the company doing that crap, nobody is willing to believe the crap and nobody buys it to any degree. I believe you certainly one of the good eggs. If someone does not do the correct thing they will suffer when they loose followers and the publics trust. Do the good thing and good things will come to you. Great videos love it
Given the platform that you and other veteran UA-camrs in the hobby have, I wonder if it might be worth getting together and naming and shaming companies that are using dodgy review practices? If you do it as a group it seems it would be harder for them to retaliate. A slightly less incendiary method might be to write to them first, as a group (of reviewers), outlining what you consider acceptable practices in offering review units and so on?
Some companies have been sending printers to people outside of the 3d printing space to get more coverage and they seem to be getting eerily positive coverage on them. This happens in other spaces as well, like WotC sending MTG30 to yugitubers and poketubers. I could see them cut off anyone making that statement and just sending it to other people perhaps with larger channels than the maker channels who are pushing back on a "more eyeballs is better and people who don't know printers won't know to call out x as a problem" thing.
Happy 2024! (oh man is this a big comment, sorry Angus) Printers: they're gonna explode (metaphorically... though hopefully the community doesn't try to implode itself first) CAD: so... I think it kinda did happen, but in slicers. More and more and more can be done just within the slicer. AI 3D models are... well, it's gonna get to a usable stage eventually, but it took years to get text and images to their current state in AI generation (copyright aside), but we're just starting on 3D models. Localized manufacturing: it may not be at scale, but I think this has been going on already in nitch markets. I made a comment in a different video about my old company (2018/2019)'s fancy coffee maker breaking and found out the $10k coffee maker uses 3D parts inside and one had failed. The next day, the contract repairman showed up with a new 3D printed part. The machines are imported, so I made the assumption that it wasn't cost effective to mass manufacture those parts en-mass, and it would take too long to import them from the factory... so they instead 3D print certain parts so if they break, they can just 3D print them locally. And again, that was 2018/2019... but your point is growing and the voices saying "why would you print this, it's so much cheaper to just buy a storage case then to print one" are starting to be drowned out by "I don't need to go to the store or buy on Amazon, I can just print a new case" Industrial parts: agree. I remember talking to someone at ERRF 2022 who design printers and they said they stopped 3D printing parts for the (1 off) printers because it was so much cheaper now to pay a local machine shop to do it out of steel and aluminum. They get a super rigid and fancy printer without being that much more expensive. Consumer recycling: agreed, though I think it still needs to be operated at a larger scale then individual consumers. I just don't see the time/money/effort payoff at an individual level. Consumer 3D printing: heck yea! I think it's good for someone to know how a thing works, and a lot of times, "how stuff works" fascinates people even if it's, like, a dish washer or something. So knowing how a 3D printer works is good... but now that you know that: press print. Press print. Keep pressing print. I don't want to recalibrate my printer after each print. I just want to print. Bambu is the current darling of that, but that's how I've operated with my Prusas too. Some have gotten their Enders and others to the same state where they press print, and it goes. Throw in Anker and many of the Bambu clones, and it's becoming more and more common and I love it. I still think even Bambu is way way far off from where they can go, but I always ask those interested in getting into 3D printing: do you want to tinker or print? 9 out of 10, they say they want to print. Though I am going to try to steer people to brands that benefit all users and not just their subset of users ;) Trusting reviews: louder, for the people in the back... on the bot comments, I wonder how many of them also reply to livestreams. How many times has someone done a livestream, not gotten the printer out of the box, and dozens of comments show in the chat going "so should I buy this? Is this better then X?" hello... it's not even out of the box yet. And that was going on for years. It makes me think that it's 3rd party groups who come in, try to get testimony that a product is good/worth buying... then go to the company and say "hey, we asked reviewers to check your product and they like it. Pay us and we'll make sure others know about it too" Professional printers: yes... though I do wonder to what extent. The place where people have said this loudly has been the Prusa vs. Bambu stuff, but Prusa has said (over and over) it's a dedicated division... and for as consumer focused as Bambu is, the ONLY show where Bambu actually showed up was Formnext, an enterprise trade show. One local employee catching a ride to a show and setting up on someone else's table is not "being at that show". Repos: this one caught me off guard... 2023 was "Thingiverse is dying... but still big. MyMiniFactory is where you get paid models for table top and such. Printables for free models. And then there's Thangs and Cults" and now... well... it's the wild west, so yea. They're gonna be madness AND they will absolutely get flooded. If those repos aren't already looking at automated mitigation, they're not going to be able to keep up. 3MF: hmm... this is a tough one. There have been many demos of steganography in data types, and the importance of filtering data. For every printer besides Bambu, they don't operate on 3MF, they operate on gcode (or binary gcode) and kinda fit in the same boat. Gcode stuff edges on "can you memory overflow the gcode reader in firmware?" and that's one edge open source firmware has, is that people can look and go "yo, we found a vulnerability..." and verify it's fix. 3MFs fall in an area of "how does the slicers use them?" If there's a multi-gig 3MF for a calibration cube... something's off. But unless a similar memory overflow or similar vulnerability is found, it's gonna be hard to do anything other then store extra stuff in the zip file. Never doubt someone dedicated, but I think it's not as dramatic as may be assumed. As for my own predictions for 2024: The community is gonna eat itself alive. Dark, yes. But weather it's security and privacy within a printer and people not knowing what "reasonable disclosure" means, or general brand wars, content stealing, gaming contests, the infamous "3 letter word that starts with G" debates, snake oil filament sales, scamming people into thinking they're getting a free printer, "I can't believe you're charging $10 a month for 50 models on your Patreon... what a ripoff, that other Patreon does 100 models", and much more... it's gonna be brutal and painful. The only solution is gonna be moderation, block/mute lists, and probably cutting back on actually offering reviews and doing contests with money or prizes involved. It's probably going to result in some people getting canceled, some brands to fade to background, and maybe even some UA-cam/streamer personalities to shutdown. This may even cause issues for those looking to "just print" and get into 3D printing, which will lead to... ...The community forks itself. I think there's gonna be a split between tinkerers and printers. You can go out and buy a car, find reviews of the car, learn about the car, get comments on little details about the car. And at no point is any of that from some car builder or car nut. No, it's just drivers. But you can also find forums and groups with the car nuts where they will tell you about a revision in a model that started at a specific factory at a specific time, how to videos to revert it or modify it, etc. I think the same arrangement is gonna happen in 3D printing. Voron, Creality, Prusa, and more on one side. Bambu and others, on the other side.Rebirth of the white label printer. Forget clones, there was a period of time (kinda still is) of printers made by someone else but with their own label on it. I think with Bambu's "Apple-attention grab and grip", the clones that show up... companies are gonna go "I can't compete with that... so I'm simply going to buy it instead and relabel it". I kinda view Bambu and Creality showing up in retail stores like MicroCenter are actually an example of it. Hear me out: retail is not "we sold to 10 customers today at a retail store" it's "we sold 50k printers to a retail store. They're out of our hands. The sale complete". It's a case of how to move printers quick without actually making a sale of them to a customer. And both places still want their cut... which means there's markup involved otherwise Bambu/Creality makes no money or MicroCenter needs to charge more then what Bambu/Creality charges. And if there's markup on some product, someone will come in and go "I will buy 200k of this P1S, put my own side panels on it, sign the NDA so I can have my own shop (let's be real, the contractor we hired from somewhere else) to recolor and reskin the UI, and do my own packaging, and then sell it ourselves." It happened before with printers, it happens all the time with filament, what's to stop it from happening again? Hot take: we hit the wall on speed. That's right, the faster we print, the more issues we have with structural components, the more cooling the extruder needs (which adds certain issues especially if companies don't heavily test filaments on their own printers, but also the different look... and one of the largest reason people go out and buy a faster printer for farms is... so they can print fast. But if they see a TikTok of some incredibly beautiful filament, buy 50kg of it to make bank on TikTok and Etsy and then find out... it looks different when they print it fast. They're gonna go "ick... I'm gonna have to charge more for those prints because of lower turnaround". Your silks need to be printed slower, your French cleats need to be printed slower, your supports get knocked over if you print too fast, etc. and it's gonna be "it's great you printed the benchy in 5 min... how come that new bust halls apart in my hand when I print it at the same speed?". We either hit the wall on speed, or a technical improvement occurs that lets us print faster that isn't just fans fans and more fans, plus the higher flow nozzle or 2. More multicolor and multimaterial. It picked up steam in 2023, but 2024 there's already people who looked at the "DOA" Prusa XL and are now going "I want one... simply so I can do multi-color at speed without the waste" and that may spur more multi-tool printers, better waste management in slicers, and more.
While I have 100% posted bigger comments, UA-cam balked at this one. Cont. my own 2024 predictions Battle of the farm software: Bambu has it's cloud... Creality has it's own, Prusa has PrusaConnect, and there are others. But farmers are going to need to decide "do we manage 5 different clouds or do we switch everything to one printer brand?". Bambu let's you control 1 at a time, PrusaConnect lets you queue up and control farms, the (abandoned) OctoFarm is still used because there's no real alt. And for all we know, someone will figure out how to tie them all together... to make an additional option that only gets partial use. But I know so many who started with a single Ender 3 and graduated to 5-6 Bambu's, maybe a Prusa, and the Ender 3 is still there... some collect dust, others are used as backups/not for the farm. Managing them will become more and more important. This comment is huge. If you made it here... hello! Not really a prediction, more a wish: I want slicers to become more "here's the model, just slice and print" and to actually work well. Better filament management (either through an AMS-like thing or being able to buy filament and have a tuned setting already in the slicers). I want people and companies to stop talking about privacy and security and actually implement it... stop going "why won't you use us, we're more secure" or saying "we're already secure, believe us" and just do it and if/when the others get hacked, printers get remote controlled into damaging themselves, etc. you can gloat about it then... but "just do the right thing" and stop waiting for the market to emerge from underground to say "yes, finally". I want consumer printers to become appliances for those who want to just print... no, Bambu is not it... they're like 5-10% of what I'm thinking: I want to bring a box into a family member's home, say make an account (with or without app), and then go "search these sites and press print. The printer will tell you if it needs anything or if there's a problem" and then the person walks away. It almost doesn't matter if it's fast or slow, it just needs to work 100% of the time or die trying. And it shouldn't die for at least a few years. No maintenance, no tweaks. Enough with cleaning the rods, greasing the bearings, and picking filament out of the gears. Here's my filament, I want that model, print. And walk away. I know people who will point at their Bambu and say they do that. I do that with my Prusa. But if I give either to my parents, I 100% guarantee that I will get a call from them in 2 weeks saying it broke the first day and they don't know what to do, and one of them tried to fix it and broke it more, and they tried to contact support but they asked them to take apart the printer or charged for repair and they said "nah, we'll contact our kid instead". Get some go-to-home repair person, service contacts, etc. and you're now REALLY being like an appliance.
Great job on the video! Your enthusiasm for the Ender-3 V3 SE is contagious, and it's clear you're passionate about sharing your experiences. Edit: Not a bot.
Regarding companies using 3D printing parts (AM) to aleviate supply chain issues, that's exactly what TetraPak are doing (for food packaging machines), not sure to what extent and how new it is, but there are public research papers on. Printed parts are not as good as machined parts, but it allows them to quickly deliver temporary spare parts, around the world, to companies that need them quickly, allowing customers to resume business faster. Meanwhile the real part is ordered and delivered when ready. Cuts down on stocking while still allowing fast support times to customers in need of spare parts. Brilliant!
Innovation and progress is rarely , if ever linear. It happens in spurts with many periods of not much changing. We just need to keep that in mind with any tech.
Germany is great at recycling cans and bottles. Our deposit system is such that every supermarket and every place that sells cans and bottles has by law to take them back wherever else bought and you get 25 cents in return for every basic bottle which is a big incentive. Same should be done with batteries electronics and plastics. Recycling plastics on the other hand does not work here as well, 90% of the stuff is simply being burned. There is a new way of recycling plastics though it´s pyrolysis by BASF check this out this is a great and useful idea.
I wouldn't expect it this year probably, but I've been wondering if/when 3D printers with more automatic or very streamlined slicing become more of a thing, where it works more like a normal printer: just open the file and hit print. Or maybe this is more of a thing already then I realize
Often once a printer is well tuned and has a good profile that's how it works. Most tuning I do isn't to make the thing, but to make the thing how I intend which the slicer can't know. Stuff like extra walls, infill, infill direction/type, etc.
Think we are going to require some seriously powerful AI for that to be a reality. The amount of settings in slicers alone... every little tweak effects print quality in some way... I can't even get them to arrange a plate correctly.
I guess that technically exists in the form of 3mf files that contain settings information but with how different printers have different capabilities it still isn't really just upload and print unless you know the capabilities of your printer meet or exceed whoever made the file.
@@Voyajer. Also even for same printers if you get a 3mf file with absurd settings, then it's no use. And there have been few instances where that have happened because some people don't want purge towers, prime lines, prefer raft over skirt/brim etc
I had never noticed the comment bots until now.... Its crazy because 100% of the time when I am looking for product reviews I go to the comments for another layer of opinion and it definitely effects my decision making. Thanks for showing us that!
I love that you mentioned the stark lack of recycling facilities available despite our governments' vainglorious pledges to represent the ecological wishes of the people. I saved up three years of plastic, metal, and glass just to find out my government's website fraudulently claims recycling is available, but when i went to the facility, they had signs up barring everything except number 1 and 2 plastic. I had to throw away all the glass and metal and other pladtics, not to mention all my paper recycling that i separated. I endeavor to create a system to enable every household to process waste either for energy or recycling
my first printer was a solidoodle in 2012. It surprisingly worked out of the box. But did not offer any room for much customization. So I used it to build myself a reprap. It has been DIY machines for me.from then on. I have made CNC machines, 3d printers, Lazer engravers. And the best part about DIY Machines is that you learn SO MUCH MORE when doing it yourself!
Angus, first time I have commented on one of your videos. Have been a subscriber for a few years now, and just wanted to pass on my appreciation of the work you put in, and I get to watch - for free. Thanks bud, all the best, Lee UK
So far I think you're probably the most honest about the 3D-printing industry that I've seen, as well as some other YTbers like CHEP from Filament Friday. Thank you for this clear review of the year, maybe this will convince me to ditch my recent (
I agree with the repository point. Theres already an issue with people downloading a model and resubitting it as their own. There are a lot of mediocre models sobthere us alreadyba lot of content. Its going to become really difficult to get noticed as a new modeller, even if youre really good. Thats even before AI spam gets going.
I have been watching your channel for years and I don’t even own a 3D printer. (Though I sometimes use one at work.) I have come to trust you and will always believe that you’re giving your honest opinion. Thank you for being part of the signal and not the noise.
well it would be 1) slow 2) hard to control without a mouse, proper keyboard and 3) quite useless, by the time you open the keypad the screen is SO small its useless
I'm a bit surprised that Fusion 360 hasn't been ported to iPadOS yet, it seems like it would work pretty well on an M1 iPad Pro and the Pencil would be useful. I'm guessing Apple would want too much of a cut for it to be practical for Autodesk.
i think what you said about company embracing 3d printing is absolutely happening! I'm working in the sawmill optimisation industrie , a domain that most people will probably ask where can we use 3d printing, but we bought our first printer in 2023 and for a companies that have 3d designers and project that stretch over weeks and month, we have the time to design and print prototype that become production parts! we got it in June and now its almost running constantly to produce parts that save installation time and material! I also think its happening because people are more and more enthusiast with 3d print at home, they bring that energy and that new option at the superior and slowly but surely, the idea make it way and your job get a 3d printer ! ;) just this year i know 4 peoples who got 3d printer :O let just hope their is no 3d printing burn out tho because I also know 2 peoples who got rid of their printer because they didn't have the time or a lack of project to make!
This is the first video I've seen from you. I'll be watching more soon. In particular, you echoed exactly my rationale for purchasing a Bambu Carbon X1. I'd no enthusiasm for having to "play" with my Creality printer. When it worked, great, that was why I'd bought it, but the novelty of cleaning out filament, figuring out why the extruder was slipping, and all the other "joys" of 3D printing was wearing off very quickly. Yes, it's good to know how your 3D printer works, then you can expand your knowledge base by understanding why it's not doing what you bought it for. The Bambu, as you describe, worked straight out of the box. It was significantly more expensive than the Creality, but hey it worked, and continues to do so. Thanks for the tip on 3MF files. Never crossed my mind. Now to view your other postings...
Totally agree about printers that just work. I just got a Bambu A1 and its in a different league to my previous Anycubic and Creality printers. Both the Anycubic and Creality units produced great prints, but it was often a battle to get there. I didnt print anything for almost a year because my printer just decided to stop working properly one day and I couldn't get it back to an acceptable working state. Its early days but the A1 just works. I understand that there are people out there that want to tinker with their printers, and I did for a while, but when it becomes something you have to do just to get it to work its no longer fun.
I owned an ANet printer for 3 years. It worked OK I guess but setting it up for every print was (levelling the bed was a nightmare) time consuming and a real pain the A. I sold it and bought a Bambu Lab P1S and the difference is nothing short of remarkable. Using the Bambu Lab slicer, I just input my STL, then slice the print according to settings I made and send it off to the printer via WiFi. I have in the 6 months of owning never had failed print. The most satisfying part is seeing the first layer go down smooth and precise. All I wanted from my printer is to make parts for my projects and not for fancy figures and not have to fight with it to do so. I liked it so much I bought the AMS for it and it works like a champ. This printer has fit the bill beyond my dreams. 👍👍👍😁
I use PCBway to test print some of our 3d printable tools in metal. It's convenient but if we could 3d print in metal ourselves in our shop, that would awesome. Hopefully in 2024 companies will start working on consumer grade metal 3d printers that don't cost $100,000.00. Until that happens, however, higher temp filaments like carbon fiber blended with nylon are becoming very strong and can be printed on any consumer FDM 3d printers that have a hotend that gets up to at least 300c. For now, most of our costumers are printing our tools with these newer carbon fiber blends and it works but when cheaper and easier metal printing methods are discovered and are available to the public, that will be a game changer!
Bambu Labs are flying, in part, on the work of the distributed network of people who made input shaping happen and raised the bar with designs like the Voron's that proved there was another big step-up in speed possible with commodity parts. So yes, BL helped kick off the new *commercial* wave but please don't ignore the many non-commercial efforts that led the way.
2 things I am planning for 3D printing this year! 1) just received my first bottle of tenacious resin. I am a very low volume printer, mostly printing stuff for myself. But I have started printing Mini's for friends, and models for cousins, and I'm just getting tired to needing to reprint stuff for them. Hoping that the 2-3x price of the tenacious resin will cut down on reprints due to people breaking their models. 2) I think I am ready for a fdm printer. Like you said, they seem to be getting less of a project to run, and more of a tool. I mean, with resin I calibrated it a lot until I got things dialed in... But I haven't had to change anything in literal years! Just recently dumped the vat out for the first time in over a year to take a good look at the film... But it was fine. Just dump in resin, hit go, and the printer and resin just don't fail. Fdm has always looked insane to run. Having to level with each build, and have consistent Temps, and humidity levels... It seems like a bit of a nightmare! But I keep getting print ideas that are food related (custom cookie cutters for my mom)... And I'm not putting resin anywhere near food lol. And I have some larger print projects I want to try (custom cement forms), but resin just isn't large enough, or is too expensive to print truly big items. So I think this will be the year for fdm. Something as automatic and enclosed as possible without breaking the bank!
the fact that nobody seems to take FreeCAD seriously is seriously disturbing. And yes, Bambu did "shake things up", but they are arseholes as a business and contribute virtually nothing back to the community, so eff them.
I'm a professional mechanical engineer and can confidently say FreeCAD is the least intuitive software I've ever used. Genuinely shocking to use. The UI is an absolute joke.
Bambu dont care about your community they are creating their own. They want to make printers anyone can use, they aren't selling to 'nerds' that love open source and tinkering like they are end goals of their own. They want to make the iPhone of 3D printers, a device that just works and anyone can use. Ultimately they will win, or at least their model will win if not actually them.
@@chrism2964 yup, and when this happens - you will be surprised to find that some software features have become paid, and your printer can only use chipped spools of filament for $100+.
One thing I am really waiting for are Bambulab X1C type printers that are substantially larger at least in one axis. There are so many engineering things that you cannot print due to length of at least one axis. 256x768x256 would be a welcome format
For me even one slightly bigger axis would make me buy it quite fast. Have printed some inserts for systainer (oughly 400x600 external size) and spliting it into two pieces is usually no problem, four pieces creates new challenges.
Thats what the K1 Max is. Pity Creality are still doing what they are doing though, loath to buy one. Give it another year and there will be tons of proper competition I think.
@@doppelgrau What we need it for are complex mechanical components like these ua-cam.com/video/BaQbX6-35Ho/v-deo.htmlsi=25o0LsfsreAtqHyS where we need to mass and gravity optimise and maintain surfaces. I would love a ready made unit but might have to build.
I've been out of the hobby for a few years ( I disassembled the hot end on my Tornado and was unmotivated to put the 2 screws back in). I decided to hop back in this year and bought a P1S which arrives soon. I think I might even put the Tornado back together in case I need large prints. It's good to see that 2023 saw the rise of the more consumer-ready printers. Those of us who did more of the tinkering will have more of a knowledge base if something goes wrong and open up the hobby to those who aren't as technical... I hope
My primary issue right now is really Prusa. They were so much leading the scene. They for sure are capable to create a CoreXY printer in a MK4 size. Bambu is out of question for me because of their behavior with patents, closed sourceness, cloud restriction and simply shady practices. SD Card and this pseudo local WiFi is not a proper alternative for me. I don't understand why Prusa took so long to create a new upgrade and then still have 3-6 weeks ship time for their new flag model. Their enclosure adds 300-360 to the price. MMU3 additionally. I think Prusa with its MK4 is only able to make sells because of the goodwill of the people and their morals about open source, local EU craftmanship and repairability. I'm disappointed that they gave Bambu the lead so easily. If Bambu would be just a pinch more open and would allow Octoprint I'm not sure I could withstand buying a P1S. Just on a financial side, I could basically buy a second P1S if the other breaks and still pay less than for a MK4..
Just to Clarified before I say anything else, I don’t have a side in this war in the 3-D printing space I own an X1C and I am actively encouraging my business partner to get a MK 4 but unless you’re doing confidential models for people, bambu is just better Prusa costs same With no enclosure, same price for a worse multicolor experience is a bed slinger and is not fast or big. If instead of comparing flagships we compare features so using the A1 it’s 600 bucks for both that and a AMS compared to Prusa where that would be $1100 plus three to $400 multi material system
Problem with Prusa is, that they don't make printers. They make kits and then assembly the kits. That's really not the best way to mass produce printers. Their customer base will probably shrink,nbutnthere are people who enjoy the building aspect of the hobby and will gladly pay extra for it. Just like in PC gaming, RC models and similar hobbies.
@@dnb9913 The problem is that you can't verify its local only unless you can see the source code of the firmware (or monitor the traffic). It might say it's only local but still send requests out. It might collect everything you do in the background and send everything back to China once you leave lan only mode. They might disable it at some point because of "security reasons". Yes you can create an Intranet only WiFi and restrict outgoing requests but I do not want to even think about all of this. I am primarily a software engineer and not a 3D printer-er. I use those only for functional prints for my electronics projects. Which is why the P1S would be so attractive for me. But what I have seen so far from chinese smart appliances is concerning. This includes cheap WiFi smart plugs, LED controllers, especially cloud based cameras, baby phones, vacuum robots and what not. As every company in China has to report and give access to the CCP you should always expect some kind of back door.
A few years back, I was checking how to build my first 3d printer. I created a shopping list, a bunch of pieces, motors... all that stuff. I was overwellmed and give up. A month ago I bought a Criality's Enders. 3 parts to screw (simple than Ikea's forniture). It just works!
I'm loving having my 3D printer (yes I'm one of those who got one for Christmas). I hate to think of all the stl files I've downloaded and looked at on all the repositories in the last 3 weeks. 😂 I was put off buying one because everyone I knew who had one has an engineering degree (or so it seems) and that's just not me... I like to play, tinker a bit, but mostly play. I agree that with the printers now available their up and running in 20mins (mine was (ender v3 se)) and it's great to see (some) companies going for this market. I don't need a network capable machine, simple sd in the side and hit print. I have to remove the part so it's 1 print at a time WHO CARES! Anyhow great video and I'm slowly going through your chanel 1 video at a time (well when I'm not watching my latest print running on the printer, every layer is a new chapter for me...)
I love the Ender series printers, it’s all I own (2 Ender 3 Pro Max Neos and a Ender 5 pro). But they can be unruly as hell tho, you will run into problems that make you want to pull your hair out at first but just take a deep breath and google a description of the issue ur having and there is a fix for literally every issue I’ve ever encountered. The Ender community is so well established that you’d be hard pressed to run into a problem that someone hasn’t solved yet.
Those new V3s look like a really good value. My Ender 3 S1 Pro was $350 nine months ago. Main thing was cleaning the PEI plate like 10 times, and manually leveled the bed 5 times in a row before any print would stick. Otherwise it has printed beautifully.
@@murderdoggg ender 3 v3 is the piece of shit, the shafts on the Y axis arelow quality, and the frame is not rigid, as a result the shapers are terrible.
I have a woodworking hobby and decided to expand it to include 3D printing with an Artillery Sidewinder X2. I had nothing but problems with the hardware. I gave up and threw it away. Years later, I took a chance on a Bambu Lab P1P. I finally have a dependable tool and am excited about learning CAD.
Shapr3D on the iPad is by far the easiest CAD program I have used. It isn't as powerful as Fusion or Onshape but for modeling medium complexity functional parts it is perfect. I can go from idea to real part in a few hours. Using it with the Apple Pencil is the best way.
Shapr3D is not only pretty expensive, it also sucks. I've tried using it multiple times and I simply can't use it reliably. It'll take me 30 minutes to do something on there (and still have issues) and the same object in OnShape takes 5 minutes. So, even if OnShape on the iPad is not amazing, it's still way better than Shapr, IMO
Something that came up a few years ago but seems to have dropped off the radar was the increased use of servo drives over the standard stepper. Maybe the new micro stepper drivers eg. TMC2209, TMC5160 that improve the performance of steppers.. but most if not all systems still have no feedback loop (If a stepper skips then there is no recovery). Also, printers getting faster.. I thought the hard limit on that was the melting speed of the hot-end. Getting faster will need higher wattage hot ends under a tighter control loop. The extruders are good enough for now... Cheers Angus, hope 2024 is a good one for you, enjoy your winter (summer) as we start to freeze up here in Canada.
I think CHT nozzles moved "hotend" limit about 2 times higher. For me normal nozzle is about 25mm3/s and CHT is 40mm3/s at the same wattage. In regards to steppers, I think next level will be CANBUS operated steppers with encoders. It makes mainboard so much simpler and steppers so much reliable
What the *3MF! I wouldn't have thought about 3mf becoming an exploit! I love the video. My vote, or err... bet is that I hope that the Voron community explodes. Leave behind these corporations! Building a Voron is expensive, a company like Bambu labs make it so enticing, a MUCH lower price for a no brainier printer like the X1 Carbon at $1500 including an AMS vs $2000 plus for a quality Voron!
Ten years. Oof. I was a viewer way back at the start. And active in the livestream chats (when everyone recognized each other during a stream). Left 3d printing for a while any came back just a couple of weeks ago with the Kobra 2 Neo. I couldn't believe how fast it was to get up and running and with amazing prints. When I put together the Prusa Mk 2 (and then the Mk3 upgrade) for the Makerspace years ago it took hours to assemble, and then a bunch of tweaking. I think most of the tinkering (and repairs) I had to do on the Prusa after setup though were due to makerspace users printing stuff with wrong settings, also leaving prints unattended for hours. Nothing like finding a mars bar sized glob of PLA where the nozzle is supposed to be :) These days I definitely don't want to spend my time tinkering with and repairing/upgrading the hardware. I just want to print things that make doing other stuff easier. When do we get Replicators? Here's to another 10 years :D
The innovations is adoption of klipper… isn’t it, maybe bambu making “a peripheral 3d printer” is the other. There’s No other real innovation in the industry is there? Just mainstream adoption of fringe projects. With bambu what cool projects and intellectual property is making its way back to the overlords before the developers get it out there already will be behind the game.
I remember years ago when I found this channel and it only had a review of a 3d printing pen and a workshop video. Around this time I was also a young teen with a printerbot simple ( a sewing maching looking thing made out of laser cut wood with string for belts and sanpaper drums for pully's). Times do indeed change.
I follow an internship in product design at a large toy and game company that now uses 3D printers for prototyping, they used to outsource this to some other companies that made models and tested mechanical systems. This was slow and expensive. Now a single employee can make and test 3 different prototypes a day for next to nothing. It also massively improves new products in function and reliability. This is right now the biggest advantage of 3D printers imo: design and prototyping
Thanks Angus for being so straight forward and talk about the issue with biased "reviews". It helps a lot to be more careful with trusting reviews. I guess one has to investigate a bit more and try to find some peoples problems with the product one is interested in.
In The Netherlands bottles and cans (both plastics and Aluminium) have a deposit on it when you buy them, since the Dutch want to get that money back these bottles/cans will get returned for recycling. Other products and materials are kind a hit or miss. Glass, batteries, clothes and small appliances can be recycled via stores or multiple collection points in neighborhoods. But for other products there is no nationwide program. Paper has long been collected by sports clubs as a source of income. Food (waste), garden materials etc are collected seperatly by most municipalities at no extra costs per bin. Some places have separate bins for soft plastics like food wrappings, but hard plastics like filaments are not under that recycle program and they need to be discarded with everything else. Many municipalities are switching to costs per emptying of that bin or a limited free empties. The result is sadly that people start dumping waste illegally.
Thank you for some really nice content. I am one of those newcomers to the 3D printing world. With a background in 3D (worked for Silicon Graphics as a product specialist on the Alias|Wavefront products), I feel quite comfortable with both design and manufacturing. I just bought a Prusa MK4, not because it is the sexiest or fastest printer available, but simply cause I did the research and it seems like Prusa products just work and are supported for many years. Happy 3D printing to everyone in 2024.
My first two 3d printers were tinkering machines to learn how things work and how to fix them (looking at you voxelab aquilla). My first out of the box ready to go printer was my elegoo neptune 3 pro. I was amazed that it worked right away without modifications or calibrations. Only had one issue that I ahd to disassemble the hotend over the couple hundred hours of printing last year
Completely agree about reviewing. Yours are the only reviews I trust. Everyone else are influencing basically infomercials. It’s common for “woodworking” channels to “review” multiple laser cutters & engravers. This past year I’ve unsubscribed from more channels than I subscribed too because of them just pushing products down our throats.
Angus, You are truly a cut above the rest. 2024 will definitely bring more confusion to newbies, trying to determine which 3d printer suits their needs only gets ruined by manufactures trying to push their thoughts onto reviewers. Keep up the great work and I wish to continue to watch all your video's. Have a wonderful year ahead.
I agree with you about the development of 3D printers. Having used Stratasys and Z-corp machines 2006 - 2009 and then built Repraps in 2010 - I never got a decent print. I had 3 Creality machines in 2018, hard work to get production. Looking forward to easy and high quality 3D printing
I started 3D printing in 2020 with an Ender 5, and I loved it! (I upgraded it with a BL Touch and hooked up a Pi3 to run OctoPi) But after a while, I did get tired of the constant tweaking and fiddling I needed to do on almost every print to get it to work... so I picked up a Bambu Lab A1 this month, and holy shit I freaking love it! I haven't had to do anything other than slice, and click print! I can't believe how much 3D printers have come along in just 3 years!
Magnetic linear motors, it'll be interesting to see if they gain ground this year. The speeds are INCREDIBLE. Pretty soon, people are going to have to anchor their 3D printers to a brick/concrete base. If not the the extreme head movement speeds will cause the printer to walk off the table.
Hey so in my area in France, we do not have anything that supports a proper recycling for this type of plastics (mostly PLA). I think the bigger dumps/recycling plants do but not around me (haute savoie, the closest 'big city' would be 100km away). I do know some compagnies recycle for other pros but i dont think they take from hobbyists... And so that's why last week i had to throw almost 5 bags full of PLA i kept form the very beginning in the "will be burnt" bin... Almost had a tear running down, knowing where it'll go. But i couldn't keep it anymore, it takes quite a bit of room.
For the organizing system side. Basically every room in my house has a 3d printed holder or organizer that is optimized for whatever the use is. My bathroom especially
RepRap was a MASSIVE success to the point that we are now living the results of their movement. Cheaper printers that just work.
I could not agree more.
RepRap made me the man I am today.
We need to start, globally, giving the RepRap project more credit.
Yup. I had to explain to someone the other day that pretty much everything Bambu have done to shake-up the industry is ultimately the result of RepRap innovation.
Yes and no. The patent expiring was the main reason people could make cheap printers. It helped initially build a supply of parts but the self replicating part was a hindering limit for years. It was an unobtainable goal that delayed the switch to more traditional mass production techniques that are cheaper and faster. This is part of the price difference between Prusa and other printers. When I talked to Joe about injection modeling he claimed that it was cheaper to print but they have silently admitted that’s not true with how they spun up their filament line as seen in the Strange Parts tour.
I enjoyed my time in the community and the people I met. A lot of good work happened. It was fun and engaging for people who are not professional engineers to work in design. The era of Reprap is over and imo thats a good thing because it allows space for what’s next.
Thanks again Angus for running one of the most balanced 3d printing channels on youtube, and for always staying focused on the human side of making. All I hope for in 2024 is user-friendly CAD that isn't tied to a subscription. Printers are so easy to use now, sure wish CAD would catch up.
You've maybe heard this before, but check out plasticity 3D
After watching Teaching Tech's tutorial on OnShape I can honestly say once you get the basics down, it's actually pretty simple.
Fully agree. Autodesks price tag is completely unacceptable.
Yeah, that won't happen. I'd love that too, but there's no chance IMHO.
Try Designspark Mechanical. Free version. I've used it for a long time
7:22 I would REALLY love to see a company release an affordable machine to recycle filament. I feel like I wasting so much filament on supports, brims, purge lines, and failed prints (and I know you X1 Carbon users have all your “poop”🤣) I wouldn’t mind paying $300+ for a home unit to recycle my PLA. I feel like it’s a goldmine if a company would take charge and perfect it because every hobbyist would instantly purchase one
Same here. I don't even print that often, but I want to live sustainably, and having so much plastic waste goes against my ethos there. Even if I never see the ROI for a filament recycler, that'll be a few kilos of plastic that'll never be in the ecosystem. And that idea is enough incentive for me to want one.
@@DavidNightjet and if such a product were to come out, it would be a win for just about everyone🤣 It’s a win for the manufacturer because it’s an untapped market, it’s a win for us consumers because we can cut down on buying filament, and it’s a win for the environment. The only one not winning would be the filament companies🤣 (but even then, it’s not like we would completely stop buying filament)
@@flyingfortress4819 One of the popular 3d printer youtubers did a review on one recently but it was 600 Euro's and didn't include a grinder. A $300USD version with a grinder? that would sell like hotcakes, I'd buy two immediately.
First, the flying fortress is my favorite plane of all time so good name! Second, totally agree with your recycling machine point.
I agree 100%. As a carbon user, it's not the COST of waste that I hate, but the eco-cost.
Non planier 3d printing i think is going to really take off. I've been seeing a lot of coverage on it lately, and it's advantages are enormous when working with plastics. Being able to shape the loading structures to exactly the application of force instead of trying to find a way to print it so the layers don't peal is going to be a big one.
Yes. I hope non planar 3d printing start to become more accesible to slicers and machines
I disagree. While hardware side of user experience is almost solved, the 3d object side is still lacking, without light in sight. There are no unified standards of design guidlines for fdm printing. Like 80% of models are just 3d objects, not items that are designed for fdm printing.
For a beginner, it still takes a lot of hours of fiddling in slicer.
0:00 - Intro
1:50 - 2023 Num1: War For Prosumer Market
3:50 - 2023 Num2: Easy To Use CAD
5:37 - 2023 Num3: 3D Printing for Supply Chain
6:36 - 2023 Num4: Accessible Industrial Manufacturing
7:18 - 2023 Num5: Plastic Recycling Into Your Own Hands
8:59 - 2024 Intro
9:14 - 2024 Num1: Simplifying 3D Printing
11:57 - 2024 Num2: Harder To Trust Recommendations
16:28 - 2024 Num3: Going professional
17:29 - 2024 Num4: Repository War
18:31 - 2024 Num5: Rise Of AI Generated Models
19:28 - 2024 Num6: 3MF Misuse
20:56 - Outro
I started 3D modeling in 2017 and the first video I watched was your 101 videos. Today I am making my living doing just that. Content creation, and designing. I said this on my channel when Bambu came out. To become a social media influencer today, you have to learn CAD. It’s far less about the printers and the ability to get them to work. Thanks Angus for everything. You’ve been so supportive of me personally, just by interacting on X and TikTok. Plus your fusion clases sparked my interest and now I work from home and am creating all day, everyday!
I have been watching you for many many years and really continue to appreciate your content. But what I really value is knowing the level of integrity you work with, and the joy you exude when you find and want to share something cool
That printed tool steel part is really interesting to me. I'll have to look at those more closely.
My biggest concern for printing going forward is the increased control we're seeing companies wanting to exert over their products after we've bought them. I don't want 3d printers to become like regular printers, where you have to use their repository and their filament and their slicer. I don't think it'll be that bad, but it does seem to be heading that direction to some degree.
That's a very good point, and something that most be avoided at all costs. A truly nightmare scenario would be to have to pay for a subscription for a proprietary slicer.
It is coming. Just consider what HP is doing with their printer . . .
Yep. This is why I have strict open-source buying constraints. Back when I got my printer, I eventually bumped up my price range to get a Prusa MK3 kit rather than buy something else and improve it because I wanted that trust, I wanted a product that served me and only me, where I could work both with the community AND with the manufacturer together, rather than having to play them against each other to get what I wanted.
Agreed. As someone who used to own a xyz printing da vinci 3d printer I know how much it sucks. I do worry that too many people wont care enough about maintaining open source and as everything becoming very limited by brand. This in the long run will probably lead to the cheapest 3d printers being the ones with closed source code and require dedicated software or even licenses to use.
I really appreciate your discussion on valid reviews and trust. I've observed several folks transition to OBVIOUS paid sponsorship yet dance around it or straight up deny it. Yet they have trips and exclusives etc assumedly paid for. Then a hugely positive review come out later with zero negatives... Hopefully it stays this obvious and doesn't become as difficult as you predict to spot them. Thanks for the insight over 10 years!
I was curious about 3D printing for years and often asked colleagues or family who owned 3D printers and knew how to work them to print things for me. Just a year ago my neighbour lended me their cheap 3D printer and I got much more into fiddling with slicers and models, going so far to asking my employer to let me borrow the Prusa MK3S that was bought for one project and has been collecting dust since. That one is now in my basement and I've recently decided to start learning CAD - only because the Prusa was finally the one printer that *just works*. There are so many things I printed around that just make life more fun… organization tools (Ikea Skadis is a life changer!), household stuff like towel hangers, toys for my kids, a DIY gun stock for my VR headset, the list goes on. This year I want to make my own models, especially a travel case for a mechanical keyboard I designed and other things that hopefully help other people as well. I LOVE this hobby.
I would love to have tinkering with printers as a hobby, but I just don't have the time (guess I fall into the tool user category?). I was a bit shocked how well I fit into your 2023 predictions :D Just subscribed to the channel, I have a feeling your content might be very relevant to my interests in the next months.
Regarding cherry-picked samples, that's exactly why LTT does their "Secret Shopper" series every few years with PC building companies (and one so far where they did some of their sponsors as well). If it's addressed to either the company, Linus, or any of the other well-known employees, they have no way of knowing for sure if it's a regular item off the shelf that anybody could've gotten, or if it was chosen specifically to go to them. This is the same reason Todd from Project Farm always buys everything he tests in his videos instead of companies sending him the products directly
Now obviously, not every 3D printing channel would be able to afford to buy every printer they want to test like LTT does with the PCs in Secret Shopper (buying all the Bambu printers alone would be almost $3200 USD, not including any AMS or AMS lite. And that's only one brand of many), but it really is the best way to make sure you're not getting any special treatment from the companies
Two clarifications: 1. LTT will only do such expensive projects as long as they can find an unrelated sponsor willing to pay for the project and the manhours in return for advertising (Linus has said something to that effect multiple times, they're not a hobby shop anymore and have to stay profitable) and 2. Project Farm did accept a shipped-before-public-availability LTT screwdriver, although he also did pay retail price for it (according to Linus on the WAN Show, LTT-s weekly podcast). So there is some leeway there, in theory Linus could have cherry-picked the review sample.
Not to suggest foul play, just to keep facts as factual as reasonably possible.
It's been a long time since LTT/LMG did those kinds of projects. Gamers Nexus is now the gold standard for PC secret shopping and general games journalism, and their series where they buy prebuilt PCs has some wild stuff.
@@TROPtastic LTT literally just did one. The last episode was only a few weeks ago
@@TROPtasticyou must be living under pretty comfortable rock.
Thanks
I used to buy plastic electronic enclosure boxes at the price of an arm and a leg from Digikey and alike.
No more, after building my own Prusa RepRap in 2008. It actually printed ABS pretty good since there was no PLA at that time at reasonable prices.
No more putting up with plain boxes, when I can design anything I want and have it ready the next day. Not to mention gears that are impossible to make any other way.
So 3D printing has saved me lots of $$$ and made me "be creative through technology".
I used to LOVE the tinkering with 3D printers, but my hobbies have evolved. 3D printing is a tool more than a hobby in itself, and I want to use it for my other hobbies. I'm at a point where I just want a printer that works, looking to get a Bambu P1S later this year.
Wow! almost 10 years. I remember seeing your videos way before I ever got into 3d printing. You are a UA-cam legend and it has been a pleasure to follow your journey thus far.
11:44 - The finest moment of this video, and perhaps the finest moment I have seen in any Maker's Muse video. "So my question to you is: what are you going to do about it? Are you going to argue with people online about what brand is better? Or are you going to just suck it up, learn CAD, and make something awesome? The choice is yours." My hope for 2024 is that the 3D community takes this advice to heart. Happy New Year, Angus!
I have been studying mechanical engineering in college and was taught to use onshape, and i personally believe that it is 90% of what any average person would need for free, and with no requirement for a high powered computer. I have had to use fusion for a few projects, and while I can totally see how it is far more powerful than onshape, onshape is still my preferred cad software.
That’s great, but you had better learn the industry standards like Solid Works, Pro e or Solid Edge to ensure your competitive once you graduate.
I also started with Onshape. I really enjoyed the learning process with the interactive courses they offer for free. Last year I learned how to use CAD from zero in about 1,5 Weeks of holidays. Now I design and print practical stuff for me and others.
My son got me a Bambu P1P for Christmas. As most say, it was awesome out of the box... not perfect, but very satisfying to tinker more with predictable software settings than the physical aspects of the printer.
The A1 recall says it all about Bambu Labs. They were very honest and forthcoming about the problems. Now THAT impressed me! Most companies fight tooth and nail to do the opposite. I don't believe in being a fanboy, but rather I think honest companies deserve support... at least until they change.
The issue of reviews becoming biased is a very real thing that's dangerous for the hobby as it becomes mainstream. Teaching Tech, another youtuber, has a fantastic way of handling this in the form of a rigorous review policy every company he works with has to agree to. That way I am guaranteed that the reviews on his channel are honest, unbiased and rigorous. I value that kind of transparancy a lot.
Some companies have the same kind of review contracts/agreements. I believe Teaching Tech showed the one from Bambu Lab, where they say you won't get any money to say nice things. You just get the printer and you have to report your experience with that device. They won't try to influence that. That's good. I think they do this because a lot of people like to look for negative stuff to say about BL.
The problem is that nobody is completely unbiased. Everyone has biases whether they admit it or not.
You get hardware worth over $1000 for free and you get a commission when a device is sold via your affiliate link. This means you don't view any flaws as critically as you would if you had had to buy the device. That's simply human nature.
@@PhilippensTube Bambu Lab is not as forgiving as you might think. They have already banned UA-camrs from the affiliate programme and future reviews because they were critical of Bambu Lab.
One UA-camr accidentally published his review video a day early for his patrons. The partnership was terminated with immediate effect. They had previously invited him to their headquarters and paid for his flight and hotel for him and his family. Now he is trying to get back in Bambu Lab's good graces.
@@andreas.grundlerI don't talk about forgiving. And the one case of the breach of NDA I know about and I stand by Bambu in that matter. You agree to keep to the embargo (there's nothing wrong woth an embargo) and when you breach that, you got to live with the consequences.
I'm not familiar with the case of the youtube who got 'banned' for being negative. If you say it like that, it sounds harsh, but I don't know the details. If the criticism is correct, then it's not ok for them to ban him. But when it's nonsense or overly critical, I can understant it. There are many UA-camrs reviewing 3D printer stuff and some of them are just not able to make a coherent and professional review. I saw one of them, who in my opinion looked like he was paid by Creality to promote the K1 because he was constantly praising the K1 and cherry pick for faults on the Bambu. I'm not a member of the Bambu Fanclub, so I don't mind when somebody has negative points, but it has to be right. Fortunately, a few videos later he seemed to have corrected himself and he was more positive about the Bambu Lab printer. Or rather, more realistic. What amazed me is that he was the only one (or one of the few) who was positive about the K1, where a lot of reviewers had problems with it.
There's also one who can't seem to get his hands on a working copy of a Bambu Lab printer. Which is weird, when 'the whole world' is raving about these machines. I had a pre order for a Prusa XL, which is still a machine that I'd like to have. But I cancelled because I didn't want to wait any longer. And when it finally came (I wanted the one with the 5 heads) it wasn't working properly. I believe it is now, after x-firmware updates. In the end I decided to get a Bambu Lab X1C and I'm still happy with that decission. I works perfectly fine straight out of the box.
@@PhilippensTube The UA-camrs I was talking about are Nathan Builds Robots and Nero3D. Both have criticized Bambu Lab for lack of network security and data protection.
Initially, for example, you had to create an account in the Bambu Lab Cloud to set up the printer and the Lan mode was much more limited than it is now. After some criticism, they changed that.
Nathan Builds Robots has made some somewhat sarcastic videos about Bambu Lab, but that's his style. He has always complimented the quality of the machines and even recommends them. But apparently that's not enough. His last attempt was driving for 4 hours to the nearest Microcenter and buying a A1 with his own money to review the printer. They kicked him from the affiliate programme after he released the video.
The printers are good but I am very critical of the company as such and the company policy.
About recycling: here in Denmark we have what we call "pant" on most beverage containers. If, for example, you buy 6 sodas at your local supermarket you pay 1 DKK (~0.22 AUD) for each can in addition to the price of the soda, but you can then take back your cans when they're empty to that (or any other) supermarket and get back your 6 DKK pant. Many people also leave their cans/containers on the street which will then get collected by poor/homeless people who will cash in the pant. Win-win 🙂
Nice video, by the way 👍
EDIT: Just read that Danes handed in 1.4 billion deposit eligible bottles and cans in 2019 😁♻
Every time I am wonder how correct the things you say and notice are. It’s like a breath of clean air in this stuffy room. Thank you, Angus!
3:04 How do the oscillations of the printer affect the quality of the print? Is that table special for 3D printing and vibration isolation?
I don’t know about 3D printing, but I wonder if the 3D printer oscillating, like we see in the video, is bad for the print.
Will this be a solution? Attach the 3D printer to a big mass (+30 kg) (steel plate, marble block, etc). Put the mass+printer over very low rigid mounts (soft springs or soft rubber foot). Or just place your 3D printer over a rubber mat in your kitchen worktop.
I would really like to see FreeCAD get some extra coverage on your channel, while clearly not the easiest to use, also quite unstable in certain situations, it definitely improved a lot in the last years, and its future progress heavily depends on an ever growing userbase.
And as the name suggests, it's free for personal use, free for commercial use, and will stay free no matter what, it's a no-brainer IMO, as there's no gamble like with Fusion or Onshape or whatever else, that can go off-limits or just prohibitively expensive for the average hobbyist whenever the owner chooses to. I don't care about the fancy features, I would never base my workflow on software like that. I feel so lucky I didn't fall for those and instead kept learning this kinda weirdly built, but very capable package.
Being on a massive FOSS run lately, I have to second that. FreeCAD is aiming for a v 1.0 release in 2024 and hopefully it will release with a new integrated assembly and maybe a UI/UX overhaul. Its going to be an amazingly powerful tool, it just need to get some more love from the youtube creators.
@@HenrikSyvertsen Dunno about all the bells and whistles, the single biggest issue at this point is its instability. Seems like a complex issue, many types of operations go off the track all the time, some cause segfaults, some infinite loops, it's practically a part of the workflow...
Only workaround is saving a lot, the internal recovery mechanism is just not up to the task. This really needs to be fixed, and until then, heavily stressed for new users, otherwise it gets frustrating quite fast, and I can't blame them.
@@matwyder4187I've been using FreeCAD on Windows for 3 years now, and haven't really had stability issues with the last two releases. 0.21 is very stable and usable once you get used to the UI.
I've seen discussion on a bunch of UI improvements slated for the 0.22 release, so 2024 will be a good year hopefully!
@@matwyder4187for me personally, FreeCAD is running very smoothly and I only rarely have crashes. I think the biggest thing holding it back is its usability. Starting with the TopoNaming issue (whose improvements will hopefully be released soon), but also needing to install (and learn) one of multiple third party Plugins for building assemblies, the inability to simply rotate bodies and in general the complicated and complex UI sometimes make it a real headache to use.
KiCAD got popular when they ditched the "our way is better" mentality where a new user was basically SOL because nothing conformed to UI standards developed over decades. FreeCAD is currently in the middle of a similar issue, where, having a few years of parametric modelling under one's belt, you open freeCAD, and then stare at it, because it looks like basic tools you need (sketch, extrude, turn) either don't exist, or are part of different plugin or toolsets or whatever that only vaguely interact with each-other in interesting but non-useful ways. There was a KiCAD plugin for FreeCAD to make and adjust 3D bodies of components... And I avoided it like the plague, because it was invariably faster to make them out of geometric primitives in KiCAD itself.
I've wanted to jump into 3D printing for ages, and finally made the leap last year based on your review of the Ender 3 v3 SE. Specifically, it was because you'd *also* done an honest, less-than-glowing review of previous Creality models, and talked about the areas Creality improved for this one.
Thanks for putting out straightforward, honest content. You're making this hobby accessible to so many of us bots ... I mean real humans.
About recycling. I feel like we're reaching that point in the consumer 3d printing space where a lot of old 3d printers are becoming obsolete and get thrown away.
I have my first 3d printer which is sitting in a corner in my garage because it is too old (Rumba board, spring calibration, no heated bed, ecc), small, and unreliable to be of use right now. I also don't trust it enough to gift (or sell) it to someone in need of a 3d printer. But I still think there's some value in there and that it doesn't belong to a landfill (nothing does). The motors, drivers and some mechanical parts could still be used for other projects, but I wasn't able (or skilled enough) to think of something useful myself.
I've seen some really interesting videos in 2023 (the old ender 3 to filament recycler comes to mind), but for 2024 I'd love to see more ideas for upcycling old 3d printers
You could definitely sell it, just probably not for anywhere close to what you bought it for. I personally like buying broken 3D printers on the cheap from eBay or OfferUp and getting them working and upgrading them. People also like to turn them into PET pultrusion machines to make filament out of PET bottles. Printers that have been torn down and repurposed for this don't really need to be top of the line, in fact, the simpler in function, the better. Also, there's the salvage value. I've seen some that are broken and are being sold for just less than the cost of the stepper motors. If I'm looking to build my own printer, that could be an easy win.
@@lajoyalobos2009I like that idea. I’m a print seller enthusiast (though with not much space) and I’d love to ask my community in a few months or so if there are 3D printers they’ve given up on sitting in a garage. It would be a win-win. The seller gets extra cash and less to worry about, and I get a new printer.
I also had an old 3d printer which I wanted to give away. But then I counted the price for stepper motors, electronics, shaft etc and reliased that it all worth at least $80.
So, I put it with price $100 on local flee market site, and it was bought pretty soon. Now I can spend those money for spear parts for my new printer.
So, just sell your with the price of parts, in any case it is better than storing it in the garage.
@@lajoyalobos2009 I thought about selling it (or giving it away) as "for parts" to someone who could reuse the components, since I don't think it is worth upgrading as a 3d printer, you should change so many parts it would be simpler to start new. But didn't find anyone interested nearby.
I guess in 2024 I'll take the time to see if I can repurpose the components for a PET pultrusion or filament recycling machines (like the ones CNC kitchen tested)
Put a laser head on it and convert it in to a laser engraver?
I only had my 3D printer for a little over 2 years (QIDI X-Plus) and loving it. What is so cool about 3d printers is that I just moved into my new home and while slowly moving in used the 3d printer to create useful tools around the new house. Some items have been: custom stand for the two center speakers; Wall monitor mount for my 27" monitor to watch birds; wire supports to hide all computer cables; Camera mount for the webcam; glow in the dark bird feeder; 7' wide flatbed window mounted bird feeder; custom letter holder to place outside; and last currently working on a Squirrel running toy. This all in the FIRST month of living here. :) Design all in FreeCAD.
I 1000% think we are going to see more of a boom with AI 3D Models or someone like Adobe incorporating a basic AI gen into their 3D Modeler software as a starting point for sculpting.
I’m also going to scream if Resin Printer heated vats aren’t standard in 2024 🤣😂
I hope your prediction is wrong, but I'm worried you may be correct.
No
AI makes incomplete and unpolished models... not really fit for 3D printing... it's still some years down the line if that ever does happen
And air cleaners and curing in oxygen inhebitors at an elevated temp. Thos are all non brainers for the resin printers. Also auto refilling.
@@leanja6926 For sure. It can be a great starting point for a sculpt already, who cared if there are 7 fingers, just go in and clean that shit up but you don´t have to design the initill couple of hours.
I just don´t see how CAD will be easily replaced now, you will need to tell the design intent of the person to the machine ...that is basically what CAD is.
Also CAD is hard, I just wish they would finally improve alrady existing expensive solutions like CATIA and NX instead of those shitty solution where the tree is missing and nothing is parametric but it´s cheap ..wow great ..
Thanks for posting the video. You have raised some very valid points here.
For our business, 3D printing has completely changed the way we manufacture parts for our products. Earlier we used to manufacture most parts from aluminum, with processes like milling and turning followed by post processes like anodizing, painting etc. Now we just have to create the model in 3D and have it 3D printed.
You've been the pickiest reviewer since I started using a 3D printer. For that reason I trust your reviews more than most.
Love the tips on printing different materials videos. Instead of just telling people to change settings to print something like TPU, you actually went through the trouble of explaining the behaviour of the material which helps understanding how to troubleshoot a problem instead of just changing a value and moving on. Please keep those videos coming.
8:33 totally agree with the recycling. Highly recommend if DIY PET bottle filaments. Easy to diy at home from old/spare 3d printer parts.
The resulting filament prints well once you dial it in and woah is it tough and heat resistant. Has become my go to for parts that need to withstand heat over PETG
On the topic of reviews, I appreciate how open you are about the shady tactics that people use, like your 7 deadly sins of companies video from a while back. It really solidifies your integrity and makes me trust you more. The risk that comes with putting it out there gives me confidence you're not being misleading.
We just ran a new 3d printer this week and 10minute benchy ! WoW and no funny lines in the model so WoW, I'm blown away. Your right about the marketing companies are trying to contract and strong arm anyone doing reviews. Fact is now that if I check on a reviewer the first thing I do now is check to see the link he or she offers and if it's Zbanx, I know right away this one of those controlled reviews and to just pass up on it. One issue I'm not happy with at this point is slicer software is getting deeper with so many and then we have Fluid , Orca and in home slicers that are flavored off Cura or Prusa etc. I do wish cad would be more directly just for 3d printers and free or cheap etc. Fusion 360 is still my choice, but not happy about the prices. 2024 could see some interesting new items, let's hope so. Great video Angus like always. 🤠
I’m not a bot, I’m a real person😂 and I really appreciate your honesty and transparency. One of the best 3D printing yt channels. Keep up the good work
Only a bot would say that 😂
@@kevindavidson8314 Only a bot would say other bot is a bot, bot
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@@kevindavidson8314No bot would be called "little Lewis".
Oaiii Angus, this is exactly why i care about your uploaded content. You are as honest as you can possibly be and you are aware of the importance of the esthetic side in general. Rather than being greedy or just making a few bucks here and there for your own personal benefit. This isn’t even such a bad thing considering how much effort and dedication you’ve put into the entire journey of all the surprises and challenges you’ve brought together and out in the open….
This is an incredible amount of dedication and hours of your time that you’ve put in, it really is a huge achievement in my opinion.
I can see how easy it entangled with each other in the process, one can call “just work”
But you have a very kind human heart and keep approaching the ‘hobby’ instead of just trying to make a living out of it.
This is fairly unique my friend! I’d say that anyone who has the same attitude towards 3d printing like you have and would love to start making similar uploads of his/her content they can take an example out of you.
Whatever material benefit you might have taken out of it you fully deserve.
Just because i’m sure you have done so many amazing tips and tricks plus thorough reviews of lots of different aspects of this gigantic hobby and loving every minute of it (i’m also sure that i can speak for a whole bunch of other people when i mention that you are genuinely…;)
You’re passionated and knowledgeable expert level in what you’re posting so that makes sense for me to ‘feedback’ on your comment section.
You deserve every bit of respect and i hope that you’re able to help others and me for as long as you think that’s possible m8!!!!
I sincerely appreciate and respect what you’ve done and what you’re still doing.
Cheers from the Netherlands
Raymon
My prediction is that STL files will give way to STEP files (or at least I hope so) for sharing. Especially since Prusa Slicer, Bambu Slicer, Orca Slicer (and eventually Cura) can import them directly. STEP files are easier to Remix than STL files. I have also noticed that when using STEP files in slicers, they print faster, use less material and are more dimensionally accurate when printed. I'm hoping that the slicers will interpret STEP files more like CNC machining code with arc, circle, spline, etc. commands instead of averaged triangles.
oh wow im going to start sharing .steps then, its such a pain to import stls to fusion and convert to a mesh to make an edit
I didn't know I can import STEP into my slicer! Going to try it tomorrow! Thats amazing!
Making a .STEP version of a 3d model is more time consuming and has it's limitations so it won't totally replace STLs but it's nice for things like boxes or other items that it has built in customization options.
@@hd-be7di There are at least 2 tools that convert stl to step: FreeCAD and 3DLess
@@hd-be7di I think we will have to agree to disagree. STEP files are easy to export from CAD programs. . More so for functional parts. I'm not sure of the workflow for say Blender (and other types of MESH editing programs) and those who use it for say "organic" objects (figurines, etc.) So, there will still be a need for STL for those types of prints. But those of us who do more functional prints I believe STEP files should be used instead of STL. But that's just my thoughts. ;)
I got my first 3D printer in December of 2023, a Bambu P1S with AMS. I have always been fascinated by 3D printing but I just don’t have the time to dedicate into tinkering to make it work. A friend got the Bambu and told me how easy it was and I gave it a shot. WOW! I have never enjoyed a hobby this much. The thing has been running non stop since I got it. I am hooked!!
I hope bad patents based off open source prior art won't be enforced. I worry that open community projects may have less room once Chinese manufacturers have to dodge patents and lock everything down.
Man are you hopeful or is naiv the better word?
Chinese companies should not even be allowed to hold patents in the EU/US as they do not respect ours in the slightest.
@ivyr336 I'm talking if the likes of Bambulab consider suing flashforge or phrozen if they have a force gauge flow calibration function. All Chinese competitors
@ivyr336 careful what you wish for, itlf it wasn't creality ender 3 made it affordable and accessible 3d printing will not advance this fast since german and us based company sell thier printer for 1k +
@@doritosicecream2820 Creality is sluggish to open source their work, but at least they do it eventually. K1 value proposition is enhanced by moving to stock klipper
There's not a single consumer brand out there that services their own machines. It's all expected that it's the customers responsibility. Even Bambu which people seem to paint as the opposite when it very much isn't. There is 0 indication that this will change in 2024, the idea of not needing to tinker is literally a pipedream, when the entire printer is made from consumable parts save the frame.
If you don't want to tinker? Buy a commercial machine with a hefty price tag (5000+) that pays for the service calls or don't get a 3d printer. It's really that simple.
If you do want to tinker:
Buy a cheap machine, see if you like the hobby, then just go all out, buy the best machine you can afford and if you can build it yourself, DO IT! It will be a rewarding experience, and usually saves some money. You will know how it works inside and out and maintenance downtimes will be reduced drastically as you won't be figuring stuff out on a finished machine working around other parts.
I just don't see how you can own a consumer grade 3d printer and not tinker... it's part of the whole experience... at least to me.
that is just crap if your printer doesnt work you just sent it bag to bambu
@@thomaskletzl6493 I don't disagree at all, I'm 100% on the side of the consumer that this market should work like other markets, where products are backed up by warranty, repair, and service at the expense of the company for the entirety of the warranty period.
But the fact of the matter is that's not reality, these Consumer-grade 3d Printer companies label everything as wear and tear. basically it's your fault it broke for using the machine as it was intended to be used.
Some customers may get lucky, and w/e-printer-company will send them the parts they need replaced. The customer will still be expected to replace those parts themselves.
I honestly thought Bambu was going to be different. They aren't. They are the same as everyone else. They had(have?) an office in Texas I figured they would be doing NA repairs there. But nope, it's just am office to say they have an office in the USA.
I ordered a Bambu Printer, and to cancel that order I had to get Visa involved, Bambu is one of the worst companies I have ever dealt with in my life. They take an adversarial approach to customer relations and their community is one of, if not, the worst. I have never seen a community eat it's own like Bambu, their reddit is full of sycophants, and when ones machine breaks and they ask for help? They get jumped on like the broken legged blue creature from Galaxy Quest.
My neighbors RepRap was my first taste. Things natural deflate to become consumer assessable. Great info in this vid
Your tips really helped me build my own printer a few years ago, so yeah, I keep telling new people in the hobby to watch your channel. Glad you keep the same spirit!
I think the winner of the repository wars is going to be won by the site that offers the best incentives to its user base. So far it looks like printables has the lead as far as that goes, but we'll see if/ how that changes moving forward.
It's going to be whoever builds a robust, integrated ecosystem around it. Basically doing what Apple/Google has done with their systems with all the seamless integrations and so on.
MakerWorld offers printing out of mobile app on Bambu printers. Until Printables offer an alternative, they will be lost cause for Bambu users.
Hopefully it won't be the site that steals the most :/
These greedy 3d printer manufacturers want to own everything... the printer sales AND the models... yea no that's why I prefer independent STL shops like gambody etc. Imagine one day BambuBob's STLs only work with BambuBob printers so you need a BambuBob printer to print it... f*** that
Makerworld is winning that easily. Printables is definitely second and has more models, but has nothing like the reward program Makerworld does, or the level of integration.
I bought an Original Prusa MK3 kit even though it was a bit outside my 'normal' price range because I wanted to support RepRap's brand of open-source and get something I could understand and trust at all levels, but after being built it's been nothing but rock-solid since (one part failure, but since the interface board was a standard RepRap part I could get a generic replacement from a local 3D printing store despite my remoteness.). I upgraded it to a MK3S since, and am very happy with it. I haven't really followed new developments since, but from I understand it's mostly speed and quality increases?
I'm fine with what I have for now on that front, anyways.
Features I hope come around in the future:
-Closed-loop motion systems -- the Trinamic stepper drivers in my MK3S already have crude "that step didn't feel right, better rehome" through current sensing, proper motion tracking would be even better for making printers reliable in all circumstances.
-Some kind of real-time monitoring of either filament cross-section (keeping in mind it may be out-of-round), or nozzle pressure or flow rate, rather than assuming a fixed relationship between extruder steps and material deposited. Coupled with existing volumetric extrusion slicing, this would allow the use of really poorly-toleranced (eg. cheaply home-recycled) filament with little or no degradation in print quality -- vital if home recycling is to take off like you (and I) hope.
I know I've hoarded a lot of printer waste, and kind of stopped printing things for fun or practice (only printing things I actually need such as replacement parts) when my capacity for waste storage filled up, because I can't bring myself to actually throw it away. I sure hope the affordable recycling gear develops.
Yus, return of the good shirt! Looking forward to another year of vids.
It's a bit worn out, i need to get a new one!
You mentioned about the recycling and the importance of that. Here in Finland we recycle almost everything and waste is not a problem, more likely it's huge business. Every household and every condominium has a multiple waste containers for each type of waste for example metals, plastic, bio, paper, glass etc.. we kind of recycle it all in some way. And the most cool thing where i'm most excited is that we can recycle our soda cans, water bottles, beer cans etc. and we get deposit payment of each unit which is around 10 cents.
It may sound for a harsh job but it's really not.. once you get used to it :D
One prediction I have: We'll see more "fanboy wars" in the market. It already seems like any Prusa-related post I see on any platform is now quickly flooded with what can be best described as troll comments from BambuLab users, to the point that even though the BambuLab stuff looks very interesting (I'll probably look at picking up an A1 at some point to tinker with) I find myself wary of the possibility that even 3d printing is going to start turning into a toxic fandom.
Would be interesting to see if those Bambulab comments could be from a bot farm or not... these days a lot of fanboi comments, especially political ones (and big-time from crypto based videos) look to be bot generated.
I agree, as a now Bambulab user I have gotten the same "treatment" from Prusa users, some people identify with their printer almost like hooligans.
We're in the Age of Side Picking. Choose your side in any given topic and battle to the death of your keyboard
As someone who is a strong advocate for Open Source, I worry about being one of those "toxic fans", but for Prusa instead of Bambo. While I have plenty of personal reasons to never buy a Bambo printer (or any closed source printer), I do hope people will help me avoid being toxic myself. The 3d space def doesn't need hostility or toxicity.
@@jelybrd - I would say its even worse than that. Angus talked about bot generated comments.. I think we are going into an era of AI based influencers which is the next evolutionary step beyond the bot farms. Comments would be one aspect in how these systems impact the population.
I started 3D printing for my FPV drone hobby. I have also found the honest guys on UA-cam for that hobby, and what the honest people do when their is a contract or any other control over reviews they call out the company and everyone knows to watch the reviews on that product. It does two things, first it makes it easy to find the influencers who are not honest and sell out. Second it backfires on the company doing that crap, nobody is willing to believe the crap and nobody buys it to any degree. I believe you certainly one of the good eggs. If someone does not do the correct thing they will suffer when they loose followers and the publics trust. Do the good thing and good things will come to you. Great videos love it
Given the platform that you and other veteran UA-camrs in the hobby have, I wonder if it might be worth getting together and naming and shaming companies that are using dodgy review practices? If you do it as a group it seems it would be harder for them to retaliate. A slightly less incendiary method might be to write to them first, as a group (of reviewers), outlining what you consider acceptable practices in offering review units and so on?
Some companies have been sending printers to people outside of the 3d printing space to get more coverage and they seem to be getting eerily positive coverage on them. This happens in other spaces as well, like WotC sending MTG30 to yugitubers and poketubers. I could see them cut off anyone making that statement and just sending it to other people perhaps with larger channels than the maker channels who are pushing back on a "more eyeballs is better and people who don't know printers won't know to call out x as a problem" thing.
@@SkateSoup Yeah that is a risk.
Happy 2024! (oh man is this a big comment, sorry Angus)
Printers: they're gonna explode (metaphorically... though hopefully the community doesn't try to implode itself first)
CAD: so... I think it kinda did happen, but in slicers. More and more and more can be done just within the slicer. AI 3D models are... well, it's gonna get to a usable stage eventually, but it took years to get text and images to their current state in AI generation (copyright aside), but we're just starting on 3D models.
Localized manufacturing: it may not be at scale, but I think this has been going on already in nitch markets. I made a comment in a different video about my old company (2018/2019)'s fancy coffee maker breaking and found out the $10k coffee maker uses 3D parts inside and one had failed. The next day, the contract repairman showed up with a new 3D printed part. The machines are imported, so I made the assumption that it wasn't cost effective to mass manufacture those parts en-mass, and it would take too long to import them from the factory... so they instead 3D print certain parts so if they break, they can just 3D print them locally. And again, that was 2018/2019... but your point is growing and the voices saying "why would you print this, it's so much cheaper to just buy a storage case then to print one" are starting to be drowned out by "I don't need to go to the store or buy on Amazon, I can just print a new case"
Industrial parts: agree. I remember talking to someone at ERRF 2022 who design printers and they said they stopped 3D printing parts for the (1 off) printers because it was so much cheaper now to pay a local machine shop to do it out of steel and aluminum. They get a super rigid and fancy printer without being that much more expensive.
Consumer recycling: agreed, though I think it still needs to be operated at a larger scale then individual consumers. I just don't see the time/money/effort payoff at an individual level.
Consumer 3D printing: heck yea! I think it's good for someone to know how a thing works, and a lot of times, "how stuff works" fascinates people even if it's, like, a dish washer or something. So knowing how a 3D printer works is good... but now that you know that: press print. Press print. Keep pressing print. I don't want to recalibrate my printer after each print. I just want to print. Bambu is the current darling of that, but that's how I've operated with my Prusas too. Some have gotten their Enders and others to the same state where they press print, and it goes. Throw in Anker and many of the Bambu clones, and it's becoming more and more common and I love it. I still think even Bambu is way way far off from where they can go, but I always ask those interested in getting into 3D printing: do you want to tinker or print? 9 out of 10, they say they want to print. Though I am going to try to steer people to brands that benefit all users and not just their subset of users ;)
Trusting reviews: louder, for the people in the back... on the bot comments, I wonder how many of them also reply to livestreams. How many times has someone done a livestream, not gotten the printer out of the box, and dozens of comments show in the chat going "so should I buy this? Is this better then X?" hello... it's not even out of the box yet. And that was going on for years. It makes me think that it's 3rd party groups who come in, try to get testimony that a product is good/worth buying... then go to the company and say "hey, we asked reviewers to check your product and they like it. Pay us and we'll make sure others know about it too"
Professional printers: yes... though I do wonder to what extent. The place where people have said this loudly has been the Prusa vs. Bambu stuff, but Prusa has said (over and over) it's a dedicated division... and for as consumer focused as Bambu is, the ONLY show where Bambu actually showed up was Formnext, an enterprise trade show. One local employee catching a ride to a show and setting up on someone else's table is not "being at that show".
Repos: this one caught me off guard... 2023 was "Thingiverse is dying... but still big. MyMiniFactory is where you get paid models for table top and such. Printables for free models. And then there's Thangs and Cults" and now... well... it's the wild west, so yea. They're gonna be madness AND they will absolutely get flooded. If those repos aren't already looking at automated mitigation, they're not going to be able to keep up.
3MF: hmm... this is a tough one. There have been many demos of steganography in data types, and the importance of filtering data. For every printer besides Bambu, they don't operate on 3MF, they operate on gcode (or binary gcode) and kinda fit in the same boat. Gcode stuff edges on "can you memory overflow the gcode reader in firmware?" and that's one edge open source firmware has, is that people can look and go "yo, we found a vulnerability..." and verify it's fix. 3MFs fall in an area of "how does the slicers use them?" If there's a multi-gig 3MF for a calibration cube... something's off. But unless a similar memory overflow or similar vulnerability is found, it's gonna be hard to do anything other then store extra stuff in the zip file. Never doubt someone dedicated, but I think it's not as dramatic as may be assumed.
As for my own predictions for 2024:
The community is gonna eat itself alive. Dark, yes. But weather it's security and privacy within a printer and people not knowing what "reasonable disclosure" means, or general brand wars, content stealing, gaming contests, the infamous "3 letter word that starts with G" debates, snake oil filament sales, scamming people into thinking they're getting a free printer, "I can't believe you're charging $10 a month for 50 models on your Patreon... what a ripoff, that other Patreon does 100 models", and much more... it's gonna be brutal and painful. The only solution is gonna be moderation, block/mute lists, and probably cutting back on actually offering reviews and doing contests with money or prizes involved. It's probably going to result in some people getting canceled, some brands to fade to background, and maybe even some UA-cam/streamer personalities to shutdown. This may even cause issues for those looking to "just print" and get into 3D printing, which will lead to...
...The community forks itself. I think there's gonna be a split between tinkerers and printers. You can go out and buy a car, find reviews of the car, learn about the car, get comments on little details about the car. And at no point is any of that from some car builder or car nut. No, it's just drivers. But you can also find forums and groups with the car nuts where they will tell you about a revision in a model that started at a specific factory at a specific time, how to videos to revert it or modify it, etc. I think the same arrangement is gonna happen in 3D printing. Voron, Creality, Prusa, and more on one side. Bambu and others, on the other side.Rebirth of the white label printer. Forget clones, there was a period of time (kinda still is) of printers made by someone else but with their own label on it. I think with Bambu's "Apple-attention grab and grip", the clones that show up... companies are gonna go "I can't compete with that... so I'm simply going to buy it instead and relabel it". I kinda view Bambu and Creality showing up in retail stores like MicroCenter are actually an example of it. Hear me out: retail is not "we sold to 10 customers today at a retail store" it's "we sold 50k printers to a retail store. They're out of our hands. The sale complete". It's a case of how to move printers quick without actually making a sale of them to a customer. And both places still want their cut... which means there's markup involved otherwise Bambu/Creality makes no money or MicroCenter needs to charge more then what Bambu/Creality charges. And if there's markup on some product, someone will come in and go "I will buy 200k of this P1S, put my own side panels on it, sign the NDA so I can have my own shop (let's be real, the contractor we hired from somewhere else) to recolor and reskin the UI, and do my own packaging, and then sell it ourselves." It happened before with printers, it happens all the time with filament, what's to stop it from happening again?
Hot take: we hit the wall on speed. That's right, the faster we print, the more issues we have with structural components, the more cooling the extruder needs (which adds certain issues especially if companies don't heavily test filaments on their own printers, but also the different look... and one of the largest reason people go out and buy a faster printer for farms is... so they can print fast. But if they see a TikTok of some incredibly beautiful filament, buy 50kg of it to make bank on TikTok and Etsy and then find out... it looks different when they print it fast. They're gonna go "ick... I'm gonna have to charge more for those prints because of lower turnaround". Your silks need to be printed slower, your French cleats need to be printed slower, your supports get knocked over if you print too fast, etc. and it's gonna be "it's great you printed the benchy in 5 min... how come that new bust halls apart in my hand when I print it at the same speed?". We either hit the wall on speed, or a technical improvement occurs that lets us print faster that isn't just fans fans and more fans, plus the higher flow nozzle or 2.
More multicolor and multimaterial. It picked up steam in 2023, but 2024 there's already people who looked at the "DOA" Prusa XL and are now going "I want one... simply so I can do multi-color at speed without the waste" and that may spur more multi-tool printers, better waste management in slicers, and more.
While I have 100% posted bigger comments, UA-cam balked at this one.
Cont. my own 2024 predictions
Battle of the farm software: Bambu has it's cloud... Creality has it's own, Prusa has PrusaConnect, and there are others. But farmers are going to need to decide "do we manage 5 different clouds or do we switch everything to one printer brand?". Bambu let's you control 1 at a time, PrusaConnect lets you queue up and control farms, the (abandoned) OctoFarm is still used because there's no real alt. And for all we know, someone will figure out how to tie them all together... to make an additional option that only gets partial use. But I know so many who started with a single Ender 3 and graduated to 5-6 Bambu's, maybe a Prusa, and the Ender 3 is still there... some collect dust, others are used as backups/not for the farm. Managing them will become more and more important.
This comment is huge. If you made it here... hello! Not really a prediction, more a wish: I want slicers to become more "here's the model, just slice and print" and to actually work well. Better filament management (either through an AMS-like thing or being able to buy filament and have a tuned setting already in the slicers). I want people and companies to stop talking about privacy and security and actually implement it... stop going "why won't you use us, we're more secure" or saying "we're already secure, believe us" and just do it and if/when the others get hacked, printers get remote controlled into damaging themselves, etc. you can gloat about it then... but "just do the right thing" and stop waiting for the market to emerge from underground to say "yes, finally". I want consumer printers to become appliances for those who want to just print... no, Bambu is not it... they're like 5-10% of what I'm thinking: I want to bring a box into a family member's home, say make an account (with or without app), and then go "search these sites and press print. The printer will tell you if it needs anything or if there's a problem" and then the person walks away. It almost doesn't matter if it's fast or slow, it just needs to work 100% of the time or die trying. And it shouldn't die for at least a few years. No maintenance, no tweaks. Enough with cleaning the rods, greasing the bearings, and picking filament out of the gears. Here's my filament, I want that model, print. And walk away. I know people who will point at their Bambu and say they do that. I do that with my Prusa. But if I give either to my parents, I 100% guarantee that I will get a call from them in 2 weeks saying it broke the first day and they don't know what to do, and one of them tried to fix it and broke it more, and they tried to contact support but they asked them to take apart the printer or charged for repair and they said "nah, we'll contact our kid instead". Get some go-to-home repair person, service contacts, etc. and you're now REALLY being like an appliance.
Great job on the video! Your enthusiasm for the Ender-3 V3 SE is contagious, and it's clear you're passionate about sharing your experiences. Edit: Not a bot.
Regarding companies using 3D printing parts (AM) to aleviate supply chain issues, that's exactly what TetraPak are doing (for food packaging machines), not sure to what extent and how new it is, but there are public research papers on. Printed parts are not as good as machined parts, but it allows them to quickly deliver temporary spare parts, around the world, to companies that need them quickly, allowing customers to resume business faster. Meanwhile the real part is ordered and delivered when ready. Cuts down on stocking while still allowing fast support times to customers in need of spare parts. Brilliant!
Innovation and progress is rarely , if ever linear. It happens in spurts with many periods of not much changing. We just need to keep that in mind with any tech.
Germany is great at recycling cans and bottles. Our deposit system is such that every supermarket and every place that sells cans and bottles has by law to take them back wherever else bought and you get 25 cents in return for every basic bottle which is a big incentive. Same should be done with batteries electronics and plastics. Recycling plastics on the other hand does not work here as well, 90% of the stuff is simply being burned. There is a new way of recycling plastics though it´s pyrolysis by BASF check this out this is a great and useful idea.
I wouldn't expect it this year probably, but I've been wondering if/when 3D printers with more automatic or very streamlined slicing become more of a thing, where it works more like a normal printer: just open the file and hit print. Or maybe this is more of a thing already then I realize
Often once a printer is well tuned and has a good profile that's how it works. Most tuning I do isn't to make the thing, but to make the thing how I intend which the slicer can't know. Stuff like extra walls, infill, infill direction/type, etc.
Think we are going to require some seriously powerful AI for that to be a reality. The amount of settings in slicers alone... every little tweak effects print quality in some way...
I can't even get them to arrange a plate correctly.
I guess that technically exists in the form of 3mf files that contain settings information but with how different printers have different capabilities it still isn't really just upload and print unless you know the capabilities of your printer meet or exceed whoever made the file.
@@Voyajer. Also even for same printers if you get a 3mf file with absurd settings, then it's no use. And there have been few instances where that have happened because some people don't want purge towers, prime lines, prefer raft over skirt/brim etc
I had never noticed the comment bots until now.... Its crazy because 100% of the time when I am looking for product reviews I go to the comments for another layer of opinion and it definitely effects my decision making. Thanks for showing us that!
I love that you mentioned the stark lack of recycling facilities available despite our governments' vainglorious pledges to represent the ecological wishes of the people. I saved up three years of plastic, metal, and glass just to find out my government's website fraudulently claims recycling is available, but when i went to the facility, they had signs up barring everything except number 1 and 2 plastic. I had to throw away all the glass and metal and other pladtics, not to mention all my paper recycling that i separated. I endeavor to create a system to enable every household to process waste either for energy or recycling
Recycling plastic isn't always great.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231110112511.htm
my first printer was a solidoodle in 2012. It surprisingly worked out of the box. But did not offer any room for much customization. So I used it to build myself a reprap. It has been DIY machines for me.from then on.
I have made CNC machines, 3d printers, Lazer engravers. And the best part about DIY Machines is that you learn SO MUCH MORE when doing it yourself!
Angus, first time I have commented on one of your videos. Have been a subscriber for a few years now, and just wanted to pass on my appreciation of the work you put in, and I get to watch - for free. Thanks bud, all the best, Lee UK
So far I think you're probably the most honest about the 3D-printing industry that I've seen, as well as some other YTbers like CHEP from Filament Friday.
Thank you for this clear review of the year, maybe this will convince me to ditch my recent (
I agree with the repository point. Theres already an issue with people downloading a model and resubitting it as their own. There are a lot of mediocre models sobthere us alreadyba lot of content. Its going to become really difficult to get noticed as a new modeller, even if youre really good. Thats even before AI spam gets going.
I have been watching your channel for years and I don’t even own a 3D printer. (Though I sometimes use one at work.) I have come to trust you and will always believe that you’re giving your honest opinion. Thank you for being part of the signal and not the noise.
I just want a CAD I can use on an android tablet! If we predict it, does it come true? 😂
Affiliate links: yes, spot on. It's a problem isn't it.
Can't believe there's nothing!
There is, OnShape has an android app now
well it would be 1) slow 2) hard to control without a mouse, proper keyboard and 3) quite useless, by the time you open the keypad the screen is SO small its useless
I'm a bit surprised that Fusion 360 hasn't been ported to iPadOS yet, it seems like it would work pretty well on an M1 iPad Pro and the Pencil would be useful. I'm guessing Apple would want too much of a cut for it to be practical for Autodesk.
Same with FOSS CAD software. Technically there are some tools but they are nowhere near a Fusion360 or any other CAD program.@@MakersMuse
i think what you said about company embracing 3d printing is absolutely happening! I'm working in the sawmill optimisation industrie , a domain that most people will probably ask where can we use 3d printing, but we bought our first printer in 2023 and for a companies that have 3d designers and project that stretch over weeks and month, we have the time to design and print prototype that become production parts! we got it in June and now its almost running constantly to produce parts that save installation time and material!
I also think its happening because people are more and more enthusiast with 3d print at home, they bring that energy and that new option at the superior and slowly but surely, the idea make it way and your job get a 3d printer ! ;) just this year i know 4 peoples who got 3d printer :O let just hope their is no 3d printing burn out tho because I also know 2 peoples who got rid of their printer because they didn't have the time or a lack of project to make!
i think that building a 3d printer kit is cool, i hope that at least some manufacturers will mantain the kit trend
edit:(my english is terrible)
I think kits like Voron, Rook and others will still be in the market
This is the first video I've seen from you. I'll be watching more soon. In particular, you echoed exactly my rationale for purchasing a Bambu Carbon X1. I'd no enthusiasm for having to "play" with my Creality printer. When it worked, great, that was why I'd bought it, but the novelty of cleaning out filament, figuring out why the extruder was slipping, and all the other "joys" of 3D printing was wearing off very quickly. Yes, it's good to know how your 3D printer works, then you can expand your knowledge base by understanding why it's not doing what you bought it for.
The Bambu, as you describe, worked straight out of the box. It was significantly more expensive than the Creality, but hey it worked, and continues to do so.
Thanks for the tip on 3MF files. Never crossed my mind.
Now to view your other postings...
Notification gang!! Would love to see a Makers Muse Voron build in 2024
Totally agree about printers that just work. I just got a Bambu A1 and its in a different league to my previous Anycubic and Creality printers. Both the Anycubic and Creality units produced great prints, but it was often a battle to get there. I didnt print anything for almost a year because my printer just decided to stop working properly one day and I couldn't get it back to an acceptable working state. Its early days but the A1 just works.
I understand that there are people out there that want to tinker with their printers, and I did for a while, but when it becomes something you have to do just to get it to work its no longer fun.
I owned an ANet printer for 3 years. It worked OK I guess but setting it up for every print was (levelling the bed was a nightmare) time consuming and a real pain the A. I sold it and bought a Bambu Lab P1S and the difference is nothing short of remarkable. Using the Bambu Lab slicer, I just input my STL, then slice the print according to settings I made and send it off to the printer via WiFi. I have in the 6 months of owning never had failed print. The most satisfying part is seeing the first layer go down smooth and precise. All I wanted from my printer is to make parts for my projects and not for fancy figures and not have to fight with it to do so. I liked it so much I bought the AMS for it and it works like a champ. This printer has fit the bill beyond my dreams. 👍👍👍😁
I am a real person. The voices in my head say so.
I use PCBway to test print some of our 3d printable tools in metal. It's convenient but if we could 3d print in metal ourselves in our shop, that would awesome. Hopefully in 2024 companies will start working on consumer grade metal 3d printers that don't cost $100,000.00. Until that happens, however, higher temp filaments like carbon fiber blended with nylon are becoming very strong and can be printed on any consumer FDM 3d printers that have a hotend that gets up to at least 300c. For now, most of our costumers are printing our tools with these newer carbon fiber blends and it works but when cheaper and easier metal printing methods are discovered and are available to the public, that will be a game changer!
Bambu Labs are flying, in part, on the work of the distributed network of people who made input shaping happen and raised the bar with designs like the Voron's that proved there was another big step-up in speed possible with commodity parts. So yes, BL helped kick off the new *commercial* wave but please don't ignore the many non-commercial efforts that led the way.
2 things I am planning for 3D printing this year!
1) just received my first bottle of tenacious resin. I am a very low volume printer, mostly printing stuff for myself. But I have started printing Mini's for friends, and models for cousins, and I'm just getting tired to needing to reprint stuff for them. Hoping that the 2-3x price of the tenacious resin will cut down on reprints due to people breaking their models.
2) I think I am ready for a fdm printer. Like you said, they seem to be getting less of a project to run, and more of a tool. I mean, with resin I calibrated it a lot until I got things dialed in... But I haven't had to change anything in literal years! Just recently dumped the vat out for the first time in over a year to take a good look at the film... But it was fine. Just dump in resin, hit go, and the printer and resin just don't fail. Fdm has always looked insane to run. Having to level with each build, and have consistent Temps, and humidity levels... It seems like a bit of a nightmare! But I keep getting print ideas that are food related (custom cookie cutters for my mom)... And I'm not putting resin anywhere near food lol. And I have some larger print projects I want to try (custom cement forms), but resin just isn't large enough, or is too expensive to print truly big items. So I think this will be the year for fdm. Something as automatic and enclosed as possible without breaking the bank!
the fact that nobody seems to take FreeCAD seriously is seriously disturbing. And yes, Bambu did "shake things up", but they are arseholes as a business and contribute virtually nothing back to the community, so eff them.
I'm a professional mechanical engineer and can confidently say FreeCAD is the least intuitive software I've ever used. Genuinely shocking to use. The UI is an absolute joke.
Bambu dont care about your community they are creating their own. They want to make printers anyone can use, they aren't selling to 'nerds' that love open source and tinkering like they are end goals of their own. They want to make the iPhone of 3D printers, a device that just works and anyone can use.
Ultimately they will win, or at least their model will win if not actually them.
@@chrism2964 yup, and when this happens - you will be surprised to find that some software features have become paid, and your printer can only use chipped spools of filament for $100+.
Thanks for the video.
Hope this year will be peaceful and full os success.
Greatings from the Galilee.
One thing I am really waiting for are Bambulab X1C type printers that are substantially larger at least in one axis. There are so many engineering things that you cannot print due to length of at least one axis. 256x768x256 would be a welcome format
For me even one slightly bigger axis would make me buy it quite fast. Have printed some inserts for systainer (oughly 400x600 external size) and spliting it into two pieces is usually no problem, four pieces creates new challenges.
Thats what the K1 Max is. Pity Creality are still doing what they are doing though, loath to buy one. Give it another year and there will be tons of proper competition I think.
@@doppelgrau What we need it for are complex mechanical components like these ua-cam.com/video/BaQbX6-35Ho/v-deo.htmlsi=25o0LsfsreAtqHyS where we need to mass and gravity optimise and maintain surfaces.
I would love a ready made unit but might have to build.
@@doppelgrau Splitting things work for visual pieces, but for things that need high accuracy I don't trust assembled pieces
I've been out of the hobby for a few years ( I disassembled the hot end on my Tornado and was unmotivated to put the 2 screws back in). I decided to hop back in this year and bought a P1S which arrives soon. I think I might even put the Tornado back together in case I need large prints. It's good to see that 2023 saw the rise of the more consumer-ready printers. Those of us who did more of the tinkering will have more of a knowledge base if something goes wrong and open up the hobby to those who aren't as technical... I hope
My primary issue right now is really Prusa. They were so much leading the scene. They for sure are capable to create a CoreXY printer in a MK4 size. Bambu is out of question for me because of their behavior with patents, closed sourceness, cloud restriction and simply shady practices. SD Card and this pseudo local WiFi is not a proper alternative for me.
I don't understand why Prusa took so long to create a new upgrade and then still have 3-6 weeks ship time for their new flag model. Their enclosure adds 300-360 to the price. MMU3 additionally. I think Prusa with its MK4 is only able to make sells because of the goodwill of the people and their morals about open source, local EU craftmanship and repairability. I'm disappointed that they gave Bambu the lead so easily.
If Bambu would be just a pinch more open and would allow Octoprint I'm not sure I could withstand buying a P1S. Just on a financial side, I could basically buy a second P1S if the other breaks and still pay less than for a MK4..
Just to Clarified before I say anything else, I don’t have a side in this war in the 3-D printing space I own an X1C and I am actively encouraging my business partner to get a MK 4 but unless you’re doing confidential models for people, bambu is just better Prusa costs same With no enclosure, same price for a worse multicolor experience is a bed slinger and is not fast or big. If instead of comparing flagships we compare features so using the A1 it’s 600 bucks for both that and a AMS compared to Prusa where that would be $1100 plus three to $400 multi material system
wdym pseudo local wifi? if you mean the lan-only mode that's literally the same thing klipper uses.
Problem with Prusa is, that they don't make printers. They make kits and then assembly the kits. That's really not the best way to mass produce printers.
Their customer base will probably shrink,nbutnthere are people who enjoy the building aspect of the hobby and will gladly pay extra for it. Just like in PC gaming, RC models and similar hobbies.
@@dnb9913 The problem is that you can't verify its local only unless you can see the source code of the firmware (or monitor the traffic). It might say it's only local but still send requests out. It might collect everything you do in the background and send everything back to China once you leave lan only mode. They might disable it at some point because of "security reasons".
Yes you can create an Intranet only WiFi and restrict outgoing requests but I do not want to even think about all of this. I am primarily a software engineer and not a 3D printer-er. I use those only for functional prints for my electronics projects. Which is why the P1S would be so attractive for me.
But what I have seen so far from chinese smart appliances is concerning. This includes cheap WiFi smart plugs, LED controllers, especially cloud based cameras, baby phones, vacuum robots and what not. As every company in China has to report and give access to the CCP you should always expect some kind of back door.
@@Brandon-jf9cv Yeah these are exactly my thoughts. I'm currently waging my principles against my wallet. 🤷♂
A few years back, I was checking how to build my first 3d printer. I created a shopping list, a bunch of pieces, motors... all that stuff. I was overwellmed and give up. A month ago I bought a Criality's Enders. 3 parts to screw (simple than Ikea's forniture). It just works!
I'm loving having my 3D printer (yes I'm one of those who got one for Christmas). I hate to think of all the stl files I've downloaded and looked at on all the repositories in the last 3 weeks. 😂
I was put off buying one because everyone I knew who had one has an engineering degree (or so it seems) and that's just not me... I like to play, tinker a bit, but mostly play. I agree that with the printers now available their up and running in 20mins (mine was (ender v3 se)) and it's great to see (some) companies going for this market. I don't need a network capable machine, simple sd in the side and hit print. I have to remove the part so it's 1 print at a time WHO CARES!
Anyhow great video and I'm slowly going through your chanel 1 video at a time (well when I'm not watching my latest print running on the printer, every layer is a new chapter for me...)
I love the Ender series printers, it’s all I own (2 Ender 3 Pro Max Neos and a Ender 5 pro). But they can be unruly as hell tho, you will run into problems that make you want to pull your hair out at first but just take a deep breath and google a description of the issue ur having and there is a fix for literally every issue I’ve ever encountered. The Ender community is so well established that you’d be hard pressed to run into a problem that someone hasn’t solved yet.
Those new V3s look like a really good value. My Ender 3 S1 Pro was $350 nine months ago.
Main thing was cleaning the PEI plate like 10 times, and manually leveled the bed 5 times in a row before any print would stick. Otherwise it has printed beautifully.
@@murderdoggg ender 3 v3 is the piece of shit, the shafts on the Y axis arelow quality, and the frame is not rigid, as a result the shapers are terrible.
I have a woodworking hobby and decided to expand it to include 3D printing with an Artillery Sidewinder X2. I had nothing but problems with the hardware. I gave up and threw it away. Years later, I took a chance on a Bambu Lab P1P. I finally have a dependable tool and am excited about learning CAD.
Shame on 3D printer companies that it took so long, but I'm happy you came back to 3D printing.
Weird I have both x1 and x2 and couldn't be happier.
Shapr3D on the iPad is by far the easiest CAD program I have used. It isn't as powerful as Fusion or Onshape but for modeling medium complexity functional parts it is perfect. I can go from idea to real part in a few hours. Using it with the Apple Pencil is the best way.
Shapr3D is not only pretty expensive, it also sucks. I've tried using it multiple times and I simply can't use it reliably. It'll take me 30 minutes to do something on there (and still have issues) and the same object in OnShape takes 5 minutes. So, even if OnShape on the iPad is not amazing, it's still way better than Shapr, IMO
Something that came up a few years ago but seems to have dropped off the radar was the increased use of servo drives over the standard stepper.
Maybe the new micro stepper drivers eg. TMC2209, TMC5160 that improve the performance of steppers.. but most if not all systems still have no feedback loop (If a stepper skips then there is no recovery).
Also, printers getting faster.. I thought the hard limit on that was the melting speed of the hot-end. Getting faster will need higher wattage hot ends under a tighter control loop. The extruders are good enough for now...
Cheers Angus, hope 2024 is a good one for you, enjoy your winter (summer) as we start to freeze up here in Canada.
I think CHT nozzles moved "hotend" limit about 2 times higher. For me normal nozzle is about 25mm3/s and CHT is 40mm3/s at the same wattage. In regards to steppers, I think next level will be CANBUS operated steppers with encoders. It makes mainboard so much simpler and steppers so much reliable
What the *3MF! I wouldn't have thought about 3mf becoming an exploit! I love the video. My vote, or err... bet is that I hope that the Voron community explodes. Leave behind these corporations! Building a Voron is expensive, a company like Bambu labs make it so enticing, a MUCH lower price for a no brainier printer like the X1 Carbon at $1500 including an AMS vs $2000 plus for a quality Voron!
Ten years. Oof. I was a viewer way back at the start. And active in the livestream chats (when everyone recognized each other during a stream). Left 3d printing for a while any came back just a couple of weeks ago with the Kobra 2 Neo. I couldn't believe how fast it was to get up and running and with amazing prints. When I put together the Prusa Mk 2 (and then the Mk3 upgrade) for the Makerspace years ago it took hours to assemble, and then a bunch of tweaking. I think most of the tinkering (and repairs) I had to do on the Prusa after setup though were due to makerspace users printing stuff with wrong settings, also leaving prints unattended for hours. Nothing like finding a mars bar sized glob of PLA where the nozzle is supposed to be :) These days I definitely don't want to spend my time tinkering with and repairing/upgrading the hardware. I just want to print things that make doing other stuff easier. When do we get Replicators?
Here's to another 10 years :D
The innovations is adoption of klipper… isn’t it, maybe bambu making “a peripheral 3d printer” is the other. There’s No other real innovation in the industry is there? Just mainstream adoption of fringe projects.
With bambu what cool projects and intellectual property is making its way back to the overlords before the developers get it out there already will be behind the game.
This is the impression I got. It wasn't that Bambu was innovative; they just presented Klipper in a quality package.
I remember years ago when I found this channel and it only had a review of a 3d printing pen and a workshop video. Around this time I was also a young teen with a printerbot simple ( a sewing maching looking thing made out of laser cut wood with string for belts and sanpaper drums for pully's). Times do indeed change.
Probably one of my favorite 3d printing channel! KEep up the good work and being transparent.
I follow an internship in product design at a large toy and game company that now uses 3D printers for prototyping, they used to outsource this to some other companies that made models and tested mechanical systems. This was slow and expensive. Now a single employee can make and test 3 different prototypes a day for next to nothing. It also massively improves new products in function and reliability. This is right now the biggest advantage of 3D printers imo: design and prototyping
Thanks Angus for being so straight forward and talk about the issue with biased "reviews". It helps a lot to be more careful with trusting reviews.
I guess one has to investigate a bit more and try to find some peoples problems with the product one is interested in.
In The Netherlands bottles and cans (both plastics and Aluminium) have a deposit on it when you buy them, since the Dutch want to get that money back these bottles/cans will get returned for recycling.
Other products and materials are kind a hit or miss. Glass, batteries, clothes and small appliances can be recycled via stores or multiple collection points in neighborhoods. But for other products there is no nationwide program. Paper has long been collected by sports clubs as a source of income. Food (waste), garden materials etc are collected seperatly by most municipalities at no extra costs per bin. Some places have separate bins for soft plastics like food wrappings, but hard plastics like filaments are not under that recycle program and they need to be discarded with everything else. Many municipalities are switching to costs per emptying of that bin or a limited free empties. The result is sadly that people start dumping waste illegally.
Thank you for some really nice content. I am one of those newcomers to the 3D printing world. With a background in 3D (worked for Silicon Graphics as a product specialist on the Alias|Wavefront products), I feel quite comfortable with both design and manufacturing. I just bought a Prusa MK4, not because it is the sexiest or fastest printer available, but simply cause I did the research and it seems like Prusa products just work and are supported for many years. Happy 3D printing to everyone in 2024.
My first two 3d printers were tinkering machines to learn how things work and how to fix them (looking at you voxelab aquilla). My first out of the box ready to go printer was my elegoo neptune 3 pro. I was amazed that it worked right away without modifications or calibrations. Only had one issue that I ahd to disassemble the hotend over the couple hundred hours of printing last year
Completely agree about reviewing. Yours are the only reviews I trust. Everyone else are influencing basically infomercials. It’s common for “woodworking” channels to “review” multiple laser cutters & engravers. This past year I’ve unsubscribed from more channels than I subscribed too because of them just pushing products down our throats.
I love those simple channels that are about a hobby, not about influencing you with stuff to buy. Not much of those hobby ones left on YT
Angus,
You are truly a cut above the rest.
2024 will definitely bring more confusion to newbies, trying to determine which 3d printer suits their needs only gets ruined by manufactures trying to push their thoughts onto reviewers.
Keep up the great work and I wish to continue to watch all your video's. Have a wonderful year ahead.
Don't forget the Precious Plastic movement for the plastic recycling! :)
Blender has quite a good CAD addon
I agree with you about the development of 3D printers. Having used Stratasys and Z-corp machines 2006 - 2009 and then built Repraps in 2010 - I never got a decent print. I had 3 Creality machines in 2018, hard work to get production. Looking forward to easy and high quality 3D printing
I started 3D printing in 2020 with an Ender 5, and I loved it! (I upgraded it with a BL Touch and hooked up a Pi3 to run OctoPi) But after a while, I did get tired of the constant tweaking and fiddling I needed to do on almost every print to get it to work... so I picked up a Bambu Lab A1 this month, and holy shit I freaking love it! I haven't had to do anything other than slice, and click print! I can't believe how much 3D printers have come along in just 3 years!
Thank you and I look forward to watching your forthcoming videos because you have always been one I trust.
Magnetic linear motors, it'll be interesting to see if they gain ground this year. The speeds are INCREDIBLE.
Pretty soon, people are going to have to anchor their 3D printers to a brick/concrete base. If not the the extreme head movement speeds will cause the printer to walk off the table.
Hey so in my area in France, we do not have anything that supports a proper recycling for this type of plastics (mostly PLA). I think the bigger dumps/recycling plants do but not around me (haute savoie, the closest 'big city' would be 100km away).
I do know some compagnies recycle for other pros but i dont think they take from hobbyists...
And so that's why last week i had to throw almost 5 bags full of PLA i kept form the very beginning in the "will be burnt" bin...
Almost had a tear running down, knowing where it'll go. But i couldn't keep it anymore, it takes quite a bit of room.
For the organizing system side. Basically every room in my house has a 3d printed holder or organizer that is optimized for whatever the use is. My bathroom especially