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I have too many filament spools now and too much white PETG so I’m making more shelves to solve both issues at once.
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Shelves it turns out are cheap as fuck to make with 3D printing. Wow. I'm going to make about 3-4 rows on a small wall I have in my office (that has room for 10 let's not go crazy though) that is basically dead space (it's where the stairs come up on the other side) to hold filament. That's crazy you can make meter long shelves for that cheap it didn't even cross my mind.

This is Elegoo Elite PETG which I get in 4KG boxes for $40 at Amazon too so it's about $2.50 worth of filament to make the hardware for 1 shelf and $16 for 2 dowels (I want to put filament but from there you could just add a flat piece of wood if you wanted a shelf).
 
rcubed said:
Too bad you can't laser engrave it!
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I'm interested to see what happens when this machine is $2499/solo $2999/combo. It's gotta be that expensive or it's going to eat the X1E (maybe they just eat the X1E?)

I think a ton of people think this thing is going to be K2 Plus priced when they've already said it's classed above the X1C. Heh.

Nevertheless this thing is going to Pacman up Prusa 2 toolhead XL models for breakfast likely if it comes in for $1999. Presumably you don't need an AMS at all for 2 color printing (but maybe you do? These guys have shown they're willing to make things more proprietary so wouldn't put it past them to put some of the hardware in the AMS to lock it out).
 
Oh hey rcubed I needed to pick up some extra hotends and noticed they have a really good deal right now. 20% off if you buy 3. I know the P series hotends are kinda expensive so good chance to pick up some different sizes if you need them. I just threw in some more 0.6mm nozzles because that's what I use 90% of the time now. That's probably a lifetime supply I think I've blown out 2 hotends in 2000 hours of print time.

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I think my child ate my 0.4mm hardened hotend I had. It's disapparated from my house. (he probably nabbed it off my workbench and stashed it somewhere the little jerk lol).
 
Lutter said:
Oh hey rcubed I needed to pick up some extra hotends and noticed they have a really good deal right now. 20% off if you buy 3. I know the P series hotends are kinda expensive so good chance to pick up some different sizes if you need them. I just threw in some more 0.6mm nozzles because that's what I use 90% of the time now. That's probably a lifetime supply I think I've blown out 2 hotends in 2000 hours of print time.

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I think my child ate my 0.4mm hardened hotend I had. It's disapparated from my house. (he probably nabbed it off my workbench and stashed it somewhere the little jerk lol).
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Thanks for the heads up but I'm all good now. I have a hardened and stainless 0.4 plus 0.2, 0.6, and 0.8 nozzles. I still have tried out the 0.8 yet.
 
rcubed said:
I still have tried out the 0.8 yet.
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Sorta useless IMHO. No filament savings or time savings over 0.6mm but you can make really strong-ish 1 wall parts with PETG.

I use it to make vases to give away with flowers and garbage cans for around the house.

Most of what you see me post these days is on a 0.6mm nozzle with a really low layer height. I honestly am of the mind that modern flow rate makes anything smaller such an incremental amount of detail vs time spent printing by reducing walls. Stronger thicker walls means less walls AND less infill because it's able to support itself better going up so filament savings are there. The one X-factor being text. Anything text seems to want a 0.4mm hotend if it's any smaller than a pinky finger or so per letter. Thick lines just don't fit in tiny boxes well.
 
Lutter said:
Sorta useless IMHO. No filament savings or time savings over 0.6mm but you can make really strong-ish 1 wall parts with PETG.

I use it to make vases to give away with flowers and garbage cans for around the house.

Most of what you see me post these days is on a 0.6mm nozzle with a really low layer height. I honestly am of the mind that modern flow rate makes anything smaller such an incremental amount of detail vs time spent printing by reducing walls. Stronger thicker walls means less walls AND less infill because it's able to support itself better going up so filament savings are there. The one X-factor being text. Anything text seems to want a 0.4mm hotend if it's any smaller than a pinky finger or so per letter. Thick lines just don't fit in tiny boxes well.
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Hoping the dual extruder will support printing with two different nozzle sizes on the same part.
 
rcubed said:
Hoping the dual extruder will support printing with two different nozzle sizes on the same part.
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All of the things they'd need to be able to do that are in PrusaSlicer already because people do this already on the XL with toolchangers to add text or small detail to larger objects. It's baked into that code open source just waiting to be used in Bambu Studio. So it would be extremely dumb for them not to.
 
Lutter said:
All of the things they'd need to be able to do that are in PrusaSlicer already because people do this already on the XL with toolchangers to add text or small detail to larger objects. It's baked into that code open source just waiting to be used in Bambu Studio. So it would be extremely dumb for them not to.
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That's what I want to hear.

While I doubt I will buy the H2D any time soon, I'm hoping we get one at work to replace our dual extruder Ultimaker3.
 
rcubed said:
I'm hoping we get one at work to replace our dual extruder Ultimaker3.
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Heh. Yeah they're definitely going for Ultimaker's lunch this time around. That's also why I think a higher price doesn't matter (but oh will it matter to everyone who think they're buying this personally. I've noticed quite a bit of price delusion, heh).
 
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This came out pretty fucking good If I do say so myself. I don’t even think it needs paint. 60mm/s max speed with some cheap PLA no name Silk off Amazon that was on sale for $12KG. . Slow and hot. 3 walls, 0.6mm hotend (right?), 0.18mm layer height, 0.62mm wall width, 10% infill (3D honeycomb). If you saw white on the last picture that was a white PETG support interface in non-compliant plastic for supports. Makes the support structures not stick to the main structure like a wasteful Ultimaker.

Thank god ..: I put up that Nelson & Murdock sign in my office and now I can point at this and they’ll get it.
 
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Lutter said:
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This came out pretty fucking good If I do say so myself. I don’t even think it needs paint. 60mm/s max speed with some cheap PLA no name Silk off Amazon that was on sale for $12KG. . Slow and hot. 3 walls, 0.6mm hotend (right?), 0.18mm layer height, 0.62mm wall width, 10% infill (3D honeycomb). If you saw white on the last picture that was a white PETG support interface in non-compliant plastic for supports. Makes the support structures not stick to the main structure like a wasteful Ultimaker.

Thank god ..: I put up that Nelson & Murdock sign in my office and now I can point at this and they’ll get it.
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And no despite losing 110 lbs in the last year this does not fit on my head. Your head is forever large apparently. Not a cosplayer so this is a shelf piece … although me trying to get one of my employees to wear it 100% will happen. They love the MCU.
 
this seems to be exactly right so far and features multiple camera angles inside the machine and 350C max temp.


350C is pretty fucking good for industrial apps IMHO. That’s similar to the Qidi Plus 4 as far as consumer models go which is the darling for technical high temp prints. I also totally believe the build size declines for extra features because of their reach being attached to the side of the toolhead.

Outer frame is indeed substantially plastic ass plastic.

Still Homer’s Car. Heh. The laser in this scenario is 10W and an upcharge.
 
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rcubed said:
Nothing like waking up and loading up filament for a print and have it break in the AMS....
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Another reason I went wirh the AMS Lite. It’s inside that thing for like… 2 inches to go through the motor? Then it’s back out to the machine. Jams don’t happen
 
Espeer said:
We just placed the PO for one of these:

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RoboWAAM® XP, Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing Machine | WAAM3D

Introducing RoboWAAM® XP: the latest in large-format WAAM technology.
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This is deposition done with a type of welding wire right?

Something like that? I know a lot of boat manufacturers use those types of machines to prototype (or even build full production scale) propellers.

I remember seeing one of these types of machines and the inside reminded me of the suicide booth from Futurama. Dangerous as shit hahah.
 
Lutter said:
This is deposition done with a type of welding wire right?

Something like that? I know a lot of boat manufacturers use those types of machines to prototype (or even build full production scale) propellers.

I remember seeing one of these types of machines and the inside reminded me of the suicide booth from Futurama. Dangerous as shit hahah.
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Yep. Basically a glorified robotic welder.
 
Oh shit Aurora did a review and liked it.



As an artist and consumer and part time accountant I’m more than slightly excited about this printer.
 
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