Great review. $750 is still pretty steep. Maybe when I win the lottery lol. Even then the toxicity of resin scares me off. For now I’ll stick with my Bambu A1 FDM.
Great overview. At the 12:50 point in the video, some of the support points looked pretty substantial. In your opinion, do you think first model does a better job with the use of smaller connection points? Perhaps because of the heated resin? It's more than I would want to spend, but I now struggle with all the settings, figuring out where supports go, repairing models, etc. I just want to print a model. 99% of my printing will be 28mm and smaller miniatures. Hoping for a Black Friday sale on original.
I haven't tried the original, but it does have slicer settings for specific uses such as miniatures. I saw another review and they said HeyGears is working on a miniature setting for the RS that will make the supports less aggressive. The Piccolo figure was one of the first I printed, and I didn't use heat to loosen the supports. The support marks did decrease once I started using heat. If you want, I can upload some pictures of the minis I printed so you can judge their quality for yourself.
@@FigureFeedbackpictures would be great. The RS is larger, right now, much cheaper. The original has some features I like but struggling with the price
Yeah that module is really pricey. I think HeyGears can also fix the support issue by tweaking the slicer. I printed some presupported models recently and those supports were easier to remove and left very few marks.
@@todd636 You could, I am only familiar with Lychee but in order to do it there you need the professional version to do a 3d hollow that will save to an STL. The free version will only hollow for the printer export.
Have a strong feeling the “blemishless supports” other UA-camrs are touting are specifically w that $600 air compressor they’re selling that aids peel force. They’re not really telling the public that it’s being used in those videos, which makes this printer $1500 to get why they’re showing off.
I was thinking the air compressor may have something to do with it. I don't have one of those. I was also using the official release version of the slicer instead of the beta version. I'm running a print on the beta version now to see if the support experience is different.
Great review. $750 is still pretty steep. Maybe when I win the lottery lol. Even then the toxicity of resin scares me off. For now I’ll stick with my Bambu A1 FDM.
Great overview. At the 12:50 point in the video, some of the support points looked pretty substantial. In your opinion, do you think first model does a better job with the use of smaller connection points? Perhaps because of the heated resin? It's more than I would want to spend, but I now struggle with all the settings, figuring out where supports go, repairing models, etc. I just want to print a model. 99% of my printing will be 28mm and smaller miniatures. Hoping for a Black Friday sale on original.
I haven't tried the original, but it does have slicer settings for specific uses such as miniatures. I saw another review and they said HeyGears is working on a miniature setting for the RS that will make the supports less aggressive. The Piccolo figure was one of the first I printed, and I didn't use heat to loosen the supports. The support marks did decrease once I started using heat. If you want, I can upload some pictures of the minis I printed so you can judge their quality for yourself.
@@FigureFeedbackpictures would be great. The RS is larger, right now, much cheaper. The original has some features I like but struggling with the price
Here's a link to some photos I took of minis. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Jbwi-YMSxOSF6og1UDCOqKTIjoGwXf6p?usp=sharing
@@FigureFeedback I've also read that the print release module makes the supports much easier to remove, but that is a big bump in price for supports.
Yeah that module is really pricey. I think HeyGears can also fix the support issue by tweaking the slicer. I printed some presupported models recently and those supports were easier to remove and left very few marks.
Do you have a link to the STL of the draining bracket that HeyGears provides? I PO'ed this printer and wanted to prep things beforehand.
I do. I've uploaded it to WeTransfer here: we.tl/t-SsqY6sceV1
Very nice review. Does it auto hollow prints? No one has talked about this.
It doesn't auto-hollow; that's still the standard process of setting wall thickness and placing drain holes in the slicer.
Bingo.
Do you think you could hollow out the model in another slicer and bring it back into HeyGear?
@todd636Yes, you can do that. I tried it with the free version of Chitubox.
@@todd636 You could, I am only familiar with Lychee but in order to do it there you need the professional version to do a 3d hollow that will save to an STL. The free version will only hollow for the printer export.
i saw a model that you print was hollowed and with holes. that you have to make it manually right?
Yes, that's correct.
Have a strong feeling the “blemishless supports” other UA-camrs are touting are specifically w that $600 air compressor they’re selling that aids peel force. They’re not really telling the public that it’s being used in those videos, which makes this printer $1500 to get why they’re showing off.
I was thinking the air compressor may have something to do with it. I don't have one of those. I was also using the official release version of the slicer instead of the beta version. I'm running a print on the beta version now to see if the support experience is different.
A bit of bend there in Wolverine's right hand claws though.
Yeah I haven't tried to heat it up and bend it back in place.