Hello,

A newbie here. And my first post.

I bought a Chinesse CNC machine last year for some hobby projects prototyping. I had to master SolidWorks in order to get any useful results, and now i think I have reached the limit of what this machine can produce as quality. So this is the reason i started to looking on ebay for 3D printers and Google a bit about what is possible. Still after two days of reading I can not decide if anything useful could be done with a 1000-2000 GBP printer from Ebay. That is why i hope for some help.

For example i see this item here:

http://thingiverse-production.s3.ama...w_featured.jpg

and the result here:

http://thingiverse-production.s3.ama...w_featured.jpg

So my question is - is this absolutely the best that could be expected as output quality ? Even with expensive 3D printer ? Do you need to machine the items after printing ?

Thank you!

Chris