Originally Posted by
curious aardvark
Things you absolutely need:
Heated bed.
Things that are well worth having:
All metal hi temp hotend - the higher rated temperature for the hotend(s) the better.
Enclosed print volume. Useful for the more problematical filaments and hi-temp filaments. IE not much point having hi temp hotend on open frame printer.
Things that might not be as useful as you think:
More than one extruder. With the exception of the bcn3d sigma and a couple of the leapfrog machines that have independant extruders. These generally don't get used that much. Knowing what i know know. I would either not bother. OR get a machine with independant extruders OR two or more filaments feeding into a single extruder.
Auto bed calibration. It's one of those things I often think would be really useful. Then I read another post about someone having problems with the auto calibration and remember I calibrate my print bed maybe 4-5 times a year, and it takes about 5 minutes.
Printing time- Is this right?
09-13-2024, 07:51 AM in General 3D Printing Discussion