What printer around 600€

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Hello, what about the flashforge finder?

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qidi one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/QIDI-TECHNO...words=qidi+one
Looks decent. Basically a finder, but with heated bed and cheaper :-)

wanhao duplicator i3 plus: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wanhao-3d-D...icator+i3+plus

Good kit.
Hell get an i3 plus and a he3d delta k200 kit and it'll still be cheaper than the qidi dual extruder :-)
Actually for the 2 it would be almost exactly what your refund was. It's a sign !

3d printers are like chocolate, one bar is good - but two is always better :-)

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qidi one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/QIDI-TECHNO...words=qidi+one
Looks decent. Basically a finder, but with heated bed and cheaper :-)

wanhao duplicator i3 plus: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wanhao-3d-D...icator+i3+plus

Good kit.
Hell get an i3 plus and a he3d delta k200 kit and it'll still be cheaper than the qidi dual extruder :-)
Actually for the 2 it would be almost exactly what your refund was. It's a sign !

3d printers are like chocolate, one bar is good - but two is always better :-)

Any idea on how inferior is the x-one compared to the tech-1 ? I mean other than the extra extruder is it that much different?

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you could easily enclose the x-one.

I still like the wanhao & k200 combination :-)

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Hello guys we finally received the x-one2, assembled it all but at the time of printing, the printed doesn't recognize any gcode or stl files other than qidi's own. For example we tried to print https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:468651 this keycap here. but doesn't recognize any of the extensions and we tried qidi's own slicer and cura, we used the sd card, not even through the cable. Any idea?

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We've been printing successfully few keychain through usb, it prints pretty good, far better than the davinci by far, but we still haven't figured out how to print via sd card, but then again we only tried gcode and stl, and it seems not to be working, anyway my X-one is closed, it came with 3 plexiglass panels to mount, and we actually realized it's the X-one 2, so probably a refresh, or revision, but seriously so far so good, for ~430€ it does a better job compared to a ~630€ printer.

http://i.imgur.com/DaTcriN.jpg

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Anyone know how to convert those gcode files in order to make my x-one print through sd cards?


edit: I managed to do that, i found out that saving the gcode file directly into the sd card didn't save it, so when we tried to print it showed nothing on the card, but we were so sure we didn't even check properly if the gcode was really inside the card :facelpalm: Now i've just saved it somewhere else and then moved it into the card, and it seems to be printing properly, i'll try printing something else rather than another cherry keycap, later on, see if it keeps up.

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Will do, but if i got it right has only few visible differences,it's enclosed, has different cover for the printhead, and something. Had few issues in the past 2 days, while printing the filament got stuck because its plastic reel is broken on one part, and at some point the filament would start running outside the reel to get stuck some time later, as a result the printer couldn't get filament but it kept printing without printing basically and you could see the printhead printing nothing but keep going on higher layers, anyway totally not printer's fault, just the shell of the bq filament we're using being broken is all, rest seems pretty good, managed to print from sd card using qidi's slicer, still couldn't do it with cura, will also try flashprint.

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Hello guys, was a bit busy lately, here some pics http://imgur.com/a/PMjKH

We recently bought a black ABS filament reel, to try and see how did it do with the printer, first print we tried the blue thermal sheet lifted and separated from the sticky layer, so we decided to remove it completely along with the sticky layer, and replaced it with some painter's tape, and we used the glue that came with the printer which has a weird vivid yellow colour, and we found out it's pretty sticky once the printer is finished (yes the central piece of tape had to go because when we removed the print, a part of it came off). The problem is some of the prints we made came out with tiny flaws, because, as you can see from the pics, there's a bolt right in the mid of the bed, although it doesn't protrude, it leaves a hole and with heat, it either makes the tape lift, or make the print unlevelled anyway, so we were thinking about upgrading to a glass bed, but we have no idea, which and how, seeing also how much the printing damaged the blue sheet after the first 100 degree print. Any suggestion?

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Anyway i'm reading over the internet, wouldn't it be better if it was borosilicate glass, which properties are pretty good for 3d printers, low thermal expansion, chemical resistant, etc? The problem seems to be i can't find it easily on the internet, not even normal glass, for reasonable amount of money, i mean a 15x15x0,3 glass panel for 20€ is a bit too much isn't it