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Discussion in 'Projects' started by Nathan Simers, Mar 10, 2016.

  1. Nathan Simers

    Nathan Simers Member

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    So i just made a deal for a XYZ Da Vinci 1.0 PRO 3D Printer for 350 with a spool of wood fill and 1 abs 1 pla. What do other people have for a second? I am going to start really putting stuff out there once i have them both set up and also i still have all the parts to a two up so i will be making a custom printer out of that soon also. MayFire Design will be up and fully running soon.
     
  2. robert sanchez

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    A delta printer is a good 2nd choice since it is a different kind of tool in that its great for tall narrow parts. You can not print flex material in a delta though since it is a bowden.
     
  3. daniel871

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    The Rostock Max v2 is supposedly the bees' knees.

    That or save up and get the BigBox by E3D.
     
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    I have the r1+, a tinkerine ditto pro and working on making a baby printer (super small 4x4 build plate)
     
  7. Nathan Simers

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    so i like the davinci but the software sucks it makes you use there slicer and its horrible but besides that it was real easy and quick. This will be what i use for my kids to play with more then my robo.
     
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    I've heard from a coworker that's has a davinci that it's not real great. No first hand experience with it.
     
  9. Chuck Erwin

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    I have a da Vinci 1.1 plus, It's my ABS go to printer and my printer prints extremely well once leveled. I had some bridging that I thought would never work but it did. Would I recommend it.... depends.... for a newbie just starting out yes. It's what I started with.

    Now I also have a Robo R1 and god knows why a Wanhao Dup 4s that is like the car in the garage always working on it and hardly riding around.
     
  10. Nathan Simers

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    Im finding it has it issues but its been easy to use and mess with. I got a clog last night but it was pretty easy getting the extruder apart to clean it out. I hate the software and not sure the status on the pro using other software yet. The prints i will say have been coming out great once i got the settings going so over all i think its a great starter printer.
     
  11. Cuda70

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    I have a Wanhao Duplicator I3V2 Good printer with good print quality
     
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    I'm in the process of building an aluminum extrusion Ultimaker 2 clone to go with my Robo. Been going well, though I had a clog in the Robo yesterday and it's been a royal pain to get it behaving again since then. It's chi appears to be off.
     
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    I'll throw another vote in for this one, my clone of this printer by Monoprice is currently outperforming both of the Robo3D printers I have (though that's easy to do when both of them are dead in the water, I guess).
     
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    Not always true. Ultibots has a version with a PG35 direct drive and has successfully demonstrated printing flexible filaments. Mutley 3D has a shaft drive system Flex3Drive that can be adapted to Deltas.
     
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    My other printer is the FlashForge Creator Pro.
     

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