Hey guys im looking for my first 3d printer right now. Any recommendation which brand should i buy? Could you guys share me some experience of using it? thanks ! :)
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Hey guys im looking for my first 3d printer right now. Any recommendation which brand should i buy? Could you guys share me some experience of using it? thanks ! :)
I'm not an expert in 3D printers, but I think your going to need to give a price range for people to help you narrow it down.Quote:
Originally Posted by cowy
That said, the Creality CR-10 (large prints) and the Prusa MK2 both seem to be highly regarded printers in the ~$500 range.
They are both kits - don't generally recommend a kit as a first machine.
And yes, what's your budget and what sort of thing do you want to do with it ?
Luke, join the dark side!
Join me, and together we will make DLP (or LCD or SLA) stereo lithography resin printers!
And together we will rule this forum as father and son. Hey, it's a viable option that hasn't been mentioned.
Seriously though, why not a kit? Lots of people make CNC routers, first build, from scratch, without even a kit. If you can't be handsome, at least you can try to be handy. Surely it depends on the individual? That means if you're handsome, you shouldn't buy a kit, because you don't need the extra points (so in your case, buy a kit!).
All kidding aside, good advice, aardvark, to ask what the budget is and intended purpose. What should I buy is far too general a question without some more specifics.
I should also mention that I know nothing about filament printers, so I can't really help you there. Just wasting time. In your thread. You're welcome.
Maker Select v2 is great stuff, it's basically a i3 clone. It usually sells for around $300, roughly $250 when on sale. I don't really trust the majority of the chinese stuff out there. It's either a fire hazard, takes weeks to get to USA, or proprietary stuff you can't alter in any way. I believe the Prusa i3 MK2s is pretty cheap right now. If you want to spend the big bucks, basically any Utilmaker is going to be great.
well given cowry seems to be intent on dragging up old threads and posting nothing posts, all over the shop. I'm not expecting any actual answers here :-)
could well be a new spambot testing.
my budget would be lower than $400 actually. im agree im not confident enough to assemble my own 3d printer. sorry i just move to new living place its a quite mess here so i cant reply the comment
yeah many people suggest ultimaker tho, did you recommend it? i think its worth buying as well but quite expensive for me...
guess that quite expensive for my budget. actually, i have below average budget because im just new and i need to do some experiment with them before take the professional 3d printer.
not ultimaker.
Have a look at the monoprice range.
when it's available, I'd recommend the new mini delta.
https://mpminidelta.monoprice.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qHEP9T2OzA
I reckon these macines are going to fly off the shelves as fast as they can make them.
I'm having one :-)
It's actually small enough to sit on top of my first delta. Perfect portable machine.
But all their printers are made by good manufacturers and have great support. Mono price aren't the world's no 1 3d printer retailer for nothing.
They have a few machines in your price range.
https://www.monoprice.com/pages/3d_printers
Most of the range can be bought in europe as well as the us. They were having a few production issues with the mini delta, but hopefully should be available soon.
Formlabs Form 2.
It makes incredibly accurate parts and it’s a breeze to operate. Product designers, engineers, anyone who wants high-quality printed parts. $3,500
it is very expensive, but using the Form 2 is like moving from an old tube TV to 4K UHD. The quality of its prints dwarf other printers on this list.
At the end of the day, you wont find a consumer-level 3D printer that makes more detailed, dimensionally accurate, structurally robust models than this one does. But that’s not the only reason we picked it. It’s also far more user friendly than other printers in its class, and despite being extremely advanced, its interface is so simple that even beginners should have no trouble using it.
It’s worth noting that the Form 2 isn’t cut from the same cloth as your average FDM printer. It’s a different breed entirely. Instead of heating up plastic filament and squirting it through a nozzle to build objects layer by layer, the Form 2 uses a laser projection system to “grow” objects out of a pool of UV-curable resin. As the laser flashes over the resin tray, it causes a thin layer to solidify on the build plate, which is slowly drawn upward as each new layer is made.
Now to be clear, the Form 2 isn’t the only 3D printer that uses this method — but it’s definitely the easiest to use of the bunch. Formlabs stuffed it with a boatload of great features that make resin-based printing less of a hassle — like an auto-filling resin tray, and an ingenious print feature that makes objects easier to remove from the build plate. There’s even a web app that lets you check the status of your print when you’re nowhere near the machine.
yeah the form2 is a good printer - but expensive to buy and very expensive to run.
sla resins are currently around 8-10x the cost of fdm filament.
I got a tevo tarantula for my first 3d printer, but i dont know, if you are into lego or engineering then get a DIY kit, generally cheaper but if not, get the monoprice mini