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so... I watch the whole video I downloaded some of the programs but.... I have never messed with any of these 3d programs or machines. My main goal is to make a cool 3d Catan board game. After looking online for a Catan brand game 3d it cost 350bucks so I looked at esty and seeing the prices of printed Catan games and game parts I thought maybe ill try it myself at this point but I feel overwhelmed. I plan to try to make my own stuff for the game in 3d programs, but again I have never done any of this and I already feel like I need a 4yr collage degree. Some of the prices on esty were 400-700 bucks for a 5-6 player Catan game fully printed and fully painted. I am still unsure what I am going to do I want a Resin printer because of its clean lines and details. I am confident I can set these machines up and get going its the 3d parts of my own design will be the factor so I plan to make my own 3d stuff 1st if I can then buy the printer only if I can make it myself I am not looking forward to buying other peoples prints because the whole point of this is to try to go solo and make other stuff like 3d body armor cozplay armor later on. do you have any advice for me ?

5:46 Why don't you twist the wires together before soldering?

So I have a problem with this idea. Like knowing your customer's needs is important but at the same time the customer can be and is often wrong. It's a balancing act. Like even if people are not interested in air filtration that should still be a priority. A lot of people do not realize that just because you can't smell it doesn't mean that FDM is safe. It still releases a significant amount of VOCs and particulates. Meta-analysis from several research papers shows that there is quite a bit of VOCs and microparticles from FDM. Same with eco packaging. We won't know the health effects for several decades but it probably is not great to have plastic particles in your lungs. Eco packaging is another place where just because the customer seems to be ambivalent doesn't mean you should ignore it. I also think there is a lot of places to try new things that customers don't even realize would be useful.

Thank you!

The Panda screen is much superior in terms of installation, functionality and size. I just learned about them yesterday.

i would love to see a printer with a built in 3d scanner. i dont mind making my own things but it would be cool to see. maybe a scanner on a track that goes around the bed and scans whatever is there.

No multi-material system?

as much as I am in favour of FOSS, Freecad is, in my opinion, the most unintuitive and obtuse CAD package currently on the market (even if it is free). I tend to stick with Fusion 360 until OnShape finally release their CAM module, assuming it is straightforward to use. (It just seems to have been on beta for ages).

Guess im in the minority here, printing from the BL app. Maybe because im newer to the hobby? If i find my printer about to be idle and dont have anything queued, ill browse the app and print right from it. How about a slicer feature that allows you to scale-to-build plate? Not useful for everything but a fun feature.

0:07 That is an "INSANE" amount of waste for the end products! No company would stay in business for long with that sort of inefficiency. I wonder how much more plastic is going into landfills since 3D printing took off? This printer, which I was considering buying, has to be _the_ worst offender.

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the mouse you built is larger than your desk haha

Slicer software have all printer profiles not just the high big printers and the lower budget printers take a back seat months or wait for printers users to make one.

I want a CoreXY with a shredder on the back. So i can use it as my dedicated poop machine. I bought my second and third printers this month, and the amount of support/poop material im going through has exploded.. Starting a third garbage bag, for whenever there's a cheap method of recycling available!

Just fuse two Bambu machines into an IDEX for me. Perfect bed size, two toolheads, one enclosure, almost tinkerfree firmware, just lose the cloud bs.

Thank you for doing this! User experience research is an under appreciated/expensive task. And here you hand it to the manufacturers on a silver platter.

NGL I wasn't expecting that gigantic monstrosity based on the thumbnail 😅

Honestly the one click printing as a gimmick makes sense. Like unless you've got that $99 one mini size resin printer, you're gonna want to position and slice and set for the materials

my 3 for "support adequate?" meant "i have never contacted support"

What version of Arduino IDE are you using? I have version 2.3.2 and I cant add the board following your instructions.

The bed size should be increased to 305x305 / 1ft x 1ft. It’s large enough for bigger prints but not so large it becomes hard to maintain. 250x250 is too small.

Ondsel ES 2024.2 has made many usability-related changes on top of the FreeCAD 0.22. Some of these improvements were specifically in response to this video. Ondsel developer Brad Collette put out a blog on May 7, in which he acknowledges your inputs, and provides a link to this video. I cannot image a more comprehensive response from a developer 👍 1. He provided an immediate explanation to your points in the comments section 2. He addressed the salient points rapidly 3. He explains all new features in a delightful blog, which embeds short videos to demonstrate the features👌 Could you please make a follow up video to re-assess your musing: _'Can FOSS CAD compete?'_

I feel you missed an opportunity for better insight with your results. You consistently referred to different use cases as not caring about this or that. I think by splitting your findings by group; hobbyist, professional, etc., you would find better relevance in the data. I have a print farm and care more about practicality and up time. The ability to purge the bed would be fantastic. Ease of maintenance is a huge need.

@TeachingTech what do I do when my printer (Anycubic Kobra 2 Neo) isn't in the premade configs? Also, Auto Build Marlin always generates HEX files when my printer needs BIN files?

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For me it would be a printer as thrustable as a brick ! I mean the speed is not the factor multi material or color not important ! i just want to be able to print every time i am ready and be sure of the result ! i dont want to print part to modify the printer and i dont want to buy part to modify a printer ! i want a brick that work ! As for a crazy idea i would like a printer that can print tubes i mean like a 4 axis on a cnc router that you can put a shaft in the chuck then print around and on the lenght so you can make rigid tubes or something like that ! Thank for your video !

Oh my word..I changed the x-y steps from 80.3 to 80 and and e steps from 143.4 to 143 and the VFA has literally halved.

Why is there nothing about easy upkeep and repairability? I would love a printer that is easy to fix when it breakes down. With super easy nozzle changes.

I'd like to get the gamble out of printer settings, ea be able to buy filament from brand X, you got Printer Y, and be in your slicer be able to share that profile. Online then you can see variations of other users, who were printing ABS PLA PETG or... etc, with a similar printer. As for hardware, how about nozzle wipe, very easy todo in theories, so far (reality cr10sv3 I've not seen it ).

Very impressive and very helpful! Another option for a cheaper 3D mouse is to look for some of the old, pre-USB units which are quite cheap on eBay. I'm not sure what hardware and software you need to adapt one for modern PCs, though. Another similar device which is even harder to get nowadays is an eight-dial dial box of the kind which used to be available for SGI and Sun workstations. Building one of those would be a relatively straightforward project but it might be just as useful to have. For the sim hardcore, one big challenge would be a faithful-looking, working replica of the Apollo Translation Control, a 3D controller designed to be used with the 3D-joystick Apollo Rotation Control.

lol at people thinking that corexy is why you have speed.

Nice project. But honestly i'm not really into 3d mouse. I have 3dconexions space mouse pro and rarely use it. I do cad for a living in CATIA v5. I actually teach students CATIA, and once a year i show them this spacemouse pro. and invite students to try it out. So far i have not made it to work reliably for me or any of my students. So far none of my former students use 3d mouse (and i have asked a few of of them that work in catia v5 in automotive R&D for years.. and no 3d mouse in sight). Maybe it's just CATIA v5 use case. In catia you can accurately move/tilt/zoom/center/fly your model just from the mouse. 3d mouse does not even compete with regular mouse for camera movement. At least i sometime use it in Ansys and Inventor, and some other CAD-CAE-CAM. I won my mouse at a CAD convention.. and tried to use it, let alone love it... i gave it a go for weeks-months and did not stick to me (i found it annoying to have the camera shift ever so slighlty if i touched the joystick or the table vibrated, so i had to unplug the mouse and now it lives in the box and not on my desk). I have mine from 2012, and still it sits in it's box, and once a year i present it to students one day, then sits for another year. I'm curious if you find it useful and not just a gimmik. I've tried, i failed.

Awesome video! Great data for manufacturers to look at.

A built in fire suppression system would put many people's minds at rest, especially with prints that extend into the night or beyond.

I cant seem to get the 3Dconnexion software to detect the arduino. everything els seems to be in working order, all in the debbugin works as it should. i just cant get it to detect in the 3Dconnexion software. any suggestions?

@RPMiller, I agree 100%. I think the 500MM size is very underserved by the market at this time. I was very glad to see the latest Ratrig can be had with a 500MM bed size and I really like the way they do the 3 different bed sizes with the same form factor. I think modular beds that could be swapped out quickly and easily as needed are something innovative that no has thought to offer. I don't always need a 500MM bed, but it sure is great to have when you do.

I want a Prusa XL but smaller (and therefore cheaper). Only need 2-3 tool heads, too.

Looks like Ratrig Vcore 4 is exactly what you are describing at the end of your video: core xy, upgradable in the future with IDEX, fast, klipper.

One Thing you forgot i like to do. I am not the kind of person who has problems with supports. You could have oriented the model 90 degrees (face down on build plate, tail up in the air) - with supports on. This way you wouldn't have a material change every layer but maybe only every 5th layer or so. (For example: the tail and the face have red segments where the printer could do multiple layers without changing). this method depends highly on the model of course, but in some instances you can cut multible HOURES ;)

fyi the vruzend kits are garbage - i had about a 90% breakage rate. the manufacturer does not stand by their products either

“Don’t want to be conned by something that over-promises and under-delivers.” Perfectly sums up my preferences. Thank you for doing this! I hope manufacturers listen! Please make something that just works!

I am not sure its anyone influencing anyone. I think its just that an influencers followers are mostly comprised of people of similar mindset.

Can you add a banana to the thumbnail for scale

Question about methodology -- the way you did this, there's no trade off between features. Next time, maybe do relative ranking as opposed to a Likert scale, or impose a maximum overall value for the sum of feature preferences. Also, would like to have seen confidence intervals, rather than just plots.

Although I wasn't able to participate in the survey, I agreed with most of the opinions, and fell into most of the larger groups. I would add, don't overlook the market share of users that would be interested in an affordable way to reuse failed or prototype prints, whether through filament recycling (home extrusions) or pellet extrusion systems (from recycling to extruding). If it were in the $300 to $500 range for a full print bed to extrusion system (think completed print to recycled filament being reused), I think it would be a game changer for the industry.

hi

Dang, i missed the survey. I got my start with a creality Ender-3 v2 and tackled most of the fundamentals of 3d printing. After about 10 months i bought a Creality K1 (post extruder fix) and have absolutly fallen in love with it. I am a Creality fan mostly for their price point. i'm a tinkerer and am willing to spend extra time to thoroughly understand something. The latest project i just completed was building a CNC frame for the 5w laser module i got thats meant for my Ender (i didnt like not being able to print). If other manufacturers could bring their prices down just a hair to make them more accessible to lower income hobbyists like myself. Anything decent over $1000 is really out of the realm for me and i'm sure many others. Great video as always! 🖖🤙

I want a CroXY with a tool changer

I think to ask how important recycling 3d prints is for people in general should have been also there.

12:07 oh that's a quite concerning result... 😮