Trying to move on, but how?

[curious aardvark]

well creality are cheap and can be problematic, makerbot are massively overpriced and in recent years have been hampered by lots and lots of problems with their extruders. Also making machines without heated platforms.
Makerbot are pretty much just trading on old reputation.


qidi are where you need to be looking. Good company, quality machines and an excellent support dept.
the starting point would be the latest x-pro: https://www.amazon.co.uk/QIDI-TECHNO...9441391&sr=8-3
Does everything you want.
Not the largest build volume - but bigger than the finder.
But it does hit the spot on all other parameters :-)

Larger print volume dual extruders, are either going to be more expensive - or using something like mosaic or the prusa mmus, involve a fair bit of tinkering on your part.
https://www.mosaicmfg.com/
https://www.prusa3d.com/original-pru...-material-2-0/

I can't see any real issue adding either to an enclosed machine. You'll need a way for the filament to get inside, but you'd likely only need a small hole.

What you could actually do with is something like a leapfrog bolt: https://www.lpfrg.com/products/leapfrog-bolt-pro/

But neither open frame idex or enclosed volume idex machines come in 'budget' yet :-)

The craftbot 3 is probably the nearest to affordable: https://craftbot.com/category/craftbot-3-3d-printer
Also looks like it could be enclosed very easily.