The only people who argued 3D printing would become a household item were science journalists memeing up research to get clickbait add revenue. As a general heuristic for life, I would advise you to always believe the contrary of whatever science journalists say because they're always wrong.
Remember when 3d printing was the next big thing and we were all about to have those in our bedrooms...
Kayden Robinson
Gavin Evans
People realised it was just a glue gun on a robot arm
Jonathan Collins
Everyone realized 99% of the stuff on shapeways and sites like it are garbage with no purpose beyond existing.
They still see lots of use in hobbyist settings, where you need some specialized part and can't afford proper machining.
Jose Green
>They still see lots of use in hobbyist settings, where you need some specialized part and can't afford proper machining.
i make stuff all the time, my 3d printers are a godsend.
i can fire up my cad software, construct something, and print it in less time than i used to construct something in cad. having the ability, to create stuff just from cad data is quite amazing, i would not want to miss it anymore.
Bentley Morales
I fucking hate 3d printers. They never fucking work. It's always something, bed adhesion, under-extruding, shitty support, cad issues, over-extruding, warping, shitty finish, filament grinding.
FUCK IT ALL. I WANT TO BURN IT ALL TO THE FUCKING GROUND.
Josiah Jackson
all your problems can be fixed with proper printer, and a calibrated extruder and the help of an entire pva glue stick dissolved in a liter bottle of isopropyl alcohol. wipe it onto the glass surface you print on, let it dry, you will get more bed adhesion than you have asked for.
Robert Foster
£4000 Ultimaker 3 Extended.
Caleb Garcia
Git gud
James Cook
>ultimaker
its like buying massively overpriced apple products, and not assembling your own pc for way less money.
you could get a better printer for a 4rth and even less what you paid for.
mine was a diy project, ive not even bought a kit, i used a BOM of a ord bot hadron, and built my own, bought the controller from printrbot, and the extruder from some german guy who makes them on a little desktop lathe, little works of precision craftsmanship, learned how to calibrate extruder output and the kinematic of the machine, how to modify your firmware, which is arduino based. you learn a lot about proper calibration, how the whole thing is supposed to work, and what can be done about such problems. 3d printers are not something i would recommend to a person who is not willing to tinker and improve said machine.
im not saying ultimakers are garbo, they are just way to expensive for what they are. price is not an indication of how a machine is performing.
ive seen 300$ entry level printers outperforming the ultimaker. some just have a smaller printbed though
Kayden James
still need a consumer grade machine that can eat used plastic and spit out feed stock.