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Recommendations for teenager's first printer. (self.3dprinting)

submitted 1 week ago by Machinist to c/3dprinting

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My son is about ready for his first printer. His school is running Cetus MK3 printers, he has a class using them, and his teacher has recommended this printer. He also has an educational seat of Fusion 360.

I'm proficient with Mastercam and hand written/modified G-code. I can help him with CAD no problem. Alignment, assembly, adjustment, and backlash are second nature for me. Have a little better than layman's understanding of printers. (Lusted over the Markforged printer that could do continuous carbon fiber.)

Eventually, will be building my own shop and hope my son might work with me. Hope to include printing, especially in metal.

I've seen some of the flap about Bambu and them closing up the software tool chain. I would like to avoid that sort of thing, for now, openness is better.

Top of my budget is around $500, with $200 probably being better.

Usable prints for tooling/spacers/repairs would be a bonus as would being able to print UV resistant plastic.

My goal for him is to get gud at modelling and get a feel for computer controlled movement. Another goal, harder to describe, is him finding the joy in mechanical tinkering and producing an idea made physical.

Thank you much! What do?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

BambuLab is not to be trusted, they are anti-consumer and remove features after purchase

You don't need to update

If I have to careful to defend something I bought against the manufacturer remotely bricking it, then maybe it's not a product I'd recommend

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I still use them and the only reason why I haven't updated it for a while: don't fix it if itsn't broken and nothing in the change logs read like I should update.

Even if you update: there is or will be (didn't follow it that closely) the debugging mode or how they call it. Not even sure if the A1 even has this DRM sofar or only the X1 series.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I see nothing wrong with using it if you already have it.