Having billed out a couple of big-ish jobs and sold the bike, I had a couple of spare bucks and splurged on a new 3D printer.
The Creality Ender V2 has been a peach and I've learned a lot, but it's slooooooowwwww. I downloaded a project and sliced it for the Creality and the projected print time was over 12 hours. Even with "hit print and forget about it" that's a bit much. Plus, like everything else, technology has improved and prices have dropped over the last few years, so I figured what the hey.
My new Bambu Labs A1 showed up today, a half hour assembling and another half hour while it did it's self calibration and I'm off to the races. The aforementioned project should take about 2.5 hours.
A raft of nice features including automatic bed leveling, wireless connection to my computer so I can send project directly instead of copying to a mini-SD, the ability to monitor prints via my cell phone and a few other geeky things. The calibration sequence included noise canceling for the servos that run the x,y and z axis plus filament feeder, anti-vibration by looking for and canceling harmonics between the 4 servos. Very cool! Oh, and if I buy the attachment, it can also print in up to 4 colors, switching automatically as needed. I think that'll likely happen eventually.
The Creality will go to my daughter as she desperately needs another hobby
The Creality Ender V2 has been a peach and I've learned a lot, but it's slooooooowwwww. I downloaded a project and sliced it for the Creality and the projected print time was over 12 hours. Even with "hit print and forget about it" that's a bit much. Plus, like everything else, technology has improved and prices have dropped over the last few years, so I figured what the hey.
My new Bambu Labs A1 showed up today, a half hour assembling and another half hour while it did it's self calibration and I'm off to the races. The aforementioned project should take about 2.5 hours.
A raft of nice features including automatic bed leveling, wireless connection to my computer so I can send project directly instead of copying to a mini-SD, the ability to monitor prints via my cell phone and a few other geeky things. The calibration sequence included noise canceling for the servos that run the x,y and z axis plus filament feeder, anti-vibration by looking for and canceling harmonics between the 4 servos. Very cool! Oh, and if I buy the attachment, it can also print in up to 4 colors, switching automatically as needed. I think that'll likely happen eventually.
The Creality will go to my daughter as she desperately needs another hobby