The REALITY of owning a MASSIVE 3D printer - AnyCubic Kobra 2 Max
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2024
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Really good review, thank you. A dose of functional realism, honest about the faults, and your explanation about the real world benefits of a bigger bed for a shop (or other) helped.
Thanks, that’s great to hear!! 🙌
I also bought this printer with last Black Friday and I love it. It prints really good. I like those Libra 2’s so much that I bought a Kobra 2 plus. 😅😅
The Kobra 2 Max uses a hacked klipper firmware, and it's closed. They won't release the source, which, besides being unethical, it means no community improvements. DONT BUY THIS PRINTER.
as someone looking for a first printer what does this mean?
@@dagurorarinsson2827 To start with, I'd avoid buying a large bed printer as your first printer. You're going to run into a lot more challenges with the bed (warping). With that said, what a closed firmware means high level....you are limited in community improvements, upgrades, updated firmware's beyond the companies supported life of the printer etc.
@@joev178 literally bought it 10 minutes ago😭, but i live in a country with a very limited selection of printers and im gonna be making large models so its my only option
@@dagurorarinsson2827 If you're keeping it, research silicone spacers to improve bed leveling, odds are you're bed is not going to be perfectly straight.
Ive got the kobra pro, its very small but every issue ive had with it has been attributed to it being my first real printer. I had to creality ender 3s which where more or less broken out of the box, ive had my kobra pro for about 6 months and it has so far been the best experience ive had with the hobby. I do definitly plan on getting the max as soon as im able to afford it to increase work flow.
I’m going to get a Kobra 2 neo and I already got the filament. Can’t wait!
mines comes in 2 daysssss
It's a really good printer when considering the price. I've had no issues with mine and I've only been printing for a month.
🙌
Great review!
Thanks so much guys!!
I personally own the Anycubic Kobra 2 after owning the Easythreed K2 Plus and I have to say it has been so good to me. All the features work great and the slicer is built off of Prusa Slicer so you can just use the Prusa slicer with the .ini file that they give you. Overall great value for the price and less messing around needed when compared to the Creality Ender counterparts (which my family members use).
Love hearing this, (we got an EasyThreed x1 to see how good it was for $70 and were impressed).. the best upgrade option at the time was an Ender really but the Kobra 2 series looks insane for the price now, especially if the Neo and Pro perform like the Max did for us!
I have a kobra 2 max and have had it for about 5 months and I love it other then that I had to get a new hot end recently
Great video! Hope to see you on our podcast soon...
Thanks man!! Absolutely, we’d love to come on, drop us a DM or email.. 🙌
Seems fairly solid overall for a large printer at that price. I'd definitely just make my own printer profile for another slicer. Ditching the spool holder would have been one of my first moves too. Also seems like that cable and reverse Bowden might cause some issues. Needs one of those retracting tethers or something. Good review! Very entertaining. Nice fidget... Thing.
Thanks so much! The Bowden and whole filament setup isn’t great to be honest, but it’s easily sorted with some quick mods, overall very impressed, especially for the price!!
I have a kobra 2 pro so the tiny version. This is my first printer and my only printer so far. I got it for christmas and its reliable and fast I havent had any I problems and I can say its a good printer for beginners.
Amazing, love hearing about people starting in 3D printing, you won’t regret it! 🙌
@@playconveyor I have a question: Is it save to print at night or when youre not at home?
I print on the kobra 2 plus and bambu lab p1s. The two negatives you mentioned are easily workable. When loading filament, make sure the hot end is positioned all the way to the left and bottom of the bed. The slicer itself is fine and covers advanced needs. For anything beyond, just use prusa slicer.
Here are my two negatives:
1. The G4 pause command does not working on anycubic. This has meant my timelapses often don't come out smoothly.
2. You can't upgrade to a bimetal heat break (atleast easily). The aftermarket bimetal heat break does not have a recessed thread, meaning you will have filament oozing out the top of the heating block, unless you manually mill the heat break, which in my opinion that level of effort isn't warranted.
Agree, definitely workable and it’s a testament to AnyCubic that they were our only real issues. They are more from a place of frustration that the level of engineering it takes to make such a fabulous machine, yet sometimes the smallest factors get overlooked.. at least the filament holder wasn’t on the back I suppose 😅
It sounds like you like to do some mods on your printers.. have you upgraded the P1S at all?
@playconveyor I upgraded the p1s hotend to hardened steel extruder gears and nozzle before I even turned the printer on! Hoping to print some drone parts for my engineering channel (YT: Engineering Dads) with CF reinforced filament. I'm probably going to print something for the filament AMS poop hole (lol) but that's about it. Any other upgrades you recommend?
I have the original Kobra, it had issues, I am told the new Kobra 2s have resolved them and they are good. I am now running Elegoo Neptune 3 and 4 Pro printers, and thinking of getting the Neptune 4 Max, but your review is making me think I might go back to Anycubic for my monster sized printer...
I’ve heard good things about the Elegoo too, can’t comment ourselves on it because we haven’t tried it but the Kobra Max 2 definitely hit all the right spots for us!
I Got both and would Pick neptune anyday
I have an anycubic kobra 2 pro and to be honest its great it rarely fails and when it does it is because of me doing stupid stuff or forgetting to do stuff for it and the only times when the machine itself failed was because of the filament runout sensor but n the pro version you can turn that off in the settings menu so now it runs perfectly the only bad thing about the anycubic kobra series that i would like to point out is how loud they are they are EXTREMELY LOUD but other than that i would recommend these they aren't to expensive as far as 3d printers go and it works great.
Yeah it’s great, we had a couple of fails as in the video but it was just filament getting tangled on the spool holder, nothing since we swapped spool holders! Interesting about noise, we only used it in our workshop which has printers going all the time but the fans are pretty noisey, you’re right!
HI. LOVE THE vid. Wondering could you put those Trays on there sides and print 20 at a time. Might need to change the design a little but could be WORTH it.
Hey thanks 🤘… it’s a great idea, we did try that too first off but printing that orientation meant the layer lines were the same way that all the weight of the shelving was pushing down… it wasn’t easy to break but side on was way stronger!
Great vid! 90C max on the bed is a potential drawback, looking for solutions as need the bed size, are you printing mainly PLA?
Thanks!! Yeah mostly PLA or PETG to be honest, especially at that size (anything ABS/Nylon etc we have the X1C for).. I will say the gold build plate is EASILY the best I’ve used, the adhesion is literally perfect everytime!
i just sat with my mouth open for 2 minutes after you said the price, £500! for that massive machine that's top 5 best deals in 3d printing at least, that's absolutely mad!
It's 399 usd... Pond and stuff
Yeah the price is ridiculous really for the amount of machine you get!!
did you guys not run into any leveling issues? My first layer print is horrendous. Did you guys do any silicone mods?
i have been using the kobra 2 for about 3 months and I love it, can't push it past about 140mms without it becoming very loud but still It's rather fast and has me wanting to buy the kobra 2 max next probably any day now. I use prusa to slice with and have had great results and have even been able to print minis with dam well near resin quality with really precise settings and speeds.
140 sounds sensible, the Max is loud too, dare I say it might be louder! Optimising a Prusa Profile is next on the list… 😃
I will end up breaking it down to reduce vibration, I'm sure I will take it fully apart and tinker to reduce the sounds might even add a new fan to cool the board bigger and quieter for better air flow and sound reduction. The issue is it was designed by engineers not mechanics, and you should kind of be both.@@playconveyor
They released a prusa profile for pla on the firmware update for the kobra 2, but it's just ok, but I did notice the auto leveling did get better with the new firmware. @@playconveyor
Anything above 120 causes layer shifts
@@horsthabicht9630 incorrect, I have been running my max at 300mms, and it's as smooth as glass
This looks awesome and I thought my P1S was big :)
It’s a beast, we were skeptical before we got it but really worked well!
I received a kobra 2 max for Christmas from my wide and I laughed, I talked from time to time about wanting a 3d printer but never got around to it.
I love this thing, I've must have logged 2000 hours since I started and the worst thing I've had to deal with was a clogged nozzle and any other issues I had were user error 🙃.
I love the k2m so much but it is very very big and some time I just need a small part. So I bought a kobra 2 pro 😁.
Which i find hilarious because I know it is actually a fairly standard sized printed but it just looks so ridiculous beside my K2M.
I do like how much quieter the pro is over its big brother.
The K2M is so loud I had to build an enclosure, but that's fine I 3d printed that too.
Also just put up a video for this printer. 100% agree for the size, speed, quality, features, volume - you can't beat this printer. I bought a Kobra max last year and liked it enough that when I saw they put out a newer model fixing all the complaints I had from the first and added more volume - this was an easy slam dunk. We're getting ready for a comic convention and if it wasn't for the speed and size we'd be under prepared. I was underwhelmed with Anycubic's SLA printers - but their FDM printers - dare I say - beats out creality
This is great to hear… we just went to a comicon and it was great to see so much 3D printed stuff there!!
SLA is a a real pain for us, the mess and smell in our studio means we just don’t do it these days… when it becomes ultra easy and no odour I’m in 😅
@playconveyor the latest elegoo printers are easy and most come with a charcoal filter. I can send you the settings i use for elegoo resins. At that point its just a matter of supports. I normally use auto supports in chitu and double check for purple areas to add more.
@@shadowmosesmusicI just got a Mars 4, can you help a friend?
@@pxtmotors4478 How can I help? Need the resin settings?
On the SD card that comes with the printer youll have profiles for PrusaSlicer and Cura! so no worries about having to use their software. Got my Anycubic Kobra 2 Neo the other day and happily using Prusaslicer with it, though seeing the dual axis motors on the pro makes me wish I got that instead! Either way having a blast and no issues :)
Ahh yeah the issue is we use Mac (I know right..) and the files are only windows based! I’m sure it won’t be long until the software is updated either way! From what we’ve heard the pro is an insane amount of features for the price!
instead of dual axis i will build this on my Kobra 2 Pro... but with a GT2 gear guide roller
my first real printer was Anycubic Mega X ... at the time a really large 305x305x305 printer... i love the thing, when it finally died around Christmas time last year, i bought the X1C ... however, I hate the Bambu/Orca slicer... with the Mega X i was using Ultimaker Cura Slicer ... it seems to support all Anycubic printers up to the Kobra Max... not sure if it will support Max 2 or not... but i would try it. Honestly, if i didn't accidently short the heating element on the Mega X, i would still be using it. Every time i turn it on, the hotend immediately starts heating and wont stop... I e-mailed Anycubic 2 days ago for help, but its out of warranty... waiting to see what they say.
Sounds great, there is always a printer that we don’t want to let go of, ours is the Prusa MK3 we got years ago, it’s been used and abused for years and can still only count the fails on one hand! The Kobra Max 2 isn’t on Cura yet but hopefully will be soon! 🤞
I have the Kobra 2 Pro and it has been one hell of a good printer. It worked straight out of the box without having to tinker with anything. For the price it is a bargain.
If it performs like the Max did for us then I’m amazed at the price of it… I think it’s like £235 here on a couple of websites which is just silly cheap!!
I bought Kobra 2 max because i have been using the Anycubic Chiron for many years and i like to print PETG.
Chiron doesn't handle petg very well but with Kobra 2 max i can print at insane speeds the petg. Like 230mm/s versus the chiron that was printing at 30mm/s . Above that i get very steingy and not even prints.
Also has to say that with high speed comes high vibrations so my whole table feels like a level 8 earthquake.
Overall i really like my kobra 2 max because if i have to print pieces that i must assemble after, i just sit them all together and print them in 1 session instead of having to wait to finish 1 piece and start another. So the project takes just 1 day instead of e or 4 days to be finished.
That’s a great use of it, I can’t believe we didn’t think about just using it to fit more parts on til a month or so in!
i print PETG with 300mm/s on my kobra 2 pro. 245°C / 80°C Bed / 40% fan. insane good quality!
A cheap printer you should try is a anycubic kobra, it’s a very good, simple, and compact printer that is great for starters, with my personal experience it is phenomenal.
How is the quality of kobra 2 max against Bambu lab a1, now I’m really interested. Great review overall)
Thanks!! I can’t compare to the A1 as we don’t have one, but the overall quality is consistently good on our Kobra Max! The size is definitely the main usp for this though, I think the Kobra 2 Pro is more similar size to the A1
Mines on its way be here Tuesday
How did it go?!
@@playconveyorgreat then really bad then good again. It glitched and slammed the axis steppers
I just got the Kobra max (non 2) just recently. Got it for an absolute STEAL as a refurb unit from anycubic on ebay. I love me some klipper and have klippered many printers in the past due to quality or consistently issues. This is the only printer so far that its actually a struggle to justify changing to klipper (not just cause its kinda a pain with a soldering mod) due to having 0 issues with it at all even printing CF-PETG with a microswiss volcano nozzle. Just works so well out of the box that the only real reason id move it to klipper is for the remote access and KAMP, which i have had no issues with the auto level yet so thats kinda a "take it or leave it"
I have one question, I really want a x1c combo, but I am only 11 years old, do you know any online secondary sale website with cheaper printers, if you do, please tell, I beg
if i wanted to print some shelving , say 400mm x 150mm, sides and back 150mm, how long you think that would take at say 3mm thickness, holding game cases/carts
It would be a real ball park figure without having an STL, depends on designs, curves, edges, infill, top layers etc.. but the Kobra is pretty much as quick as most out there at the moment! Sorry that sounds like a super generic answer haha but just no chance of being accurate without loading the STL really 😃
@@playconveyorwould the machine come with software to make an stl file im guessing for this sort of thing, or is there a seperate bit of software
So why can’t you print online on the Anycubic 2 Max
I have the kobra 2 neo and I like it it is only 170€ and for that it’s great the only problem is that maximum print speed is 250 mm s
Got the kobra 2 on eBay as b-Ware for just 110€.
Had to change the nozzle though because i could not get it clean.
But since then it works great for me.
Yeah I’ve been impressed by AnyCubic to be fair, still baffles me how cheap they are these days compared to a few years back!
@@playconveyor im pretty new to 3d printing. My Brother gave me his old ender 3 pro. It works but Not too good. Im thinkin of exchange it for a bambu lab a1 when it is availlable again in may. What so you think of those two Printers?
@@KreutzKonterTVbambu lab printers are pretty good i think. Just make sure u do ur own research and dont buy too fast
WHY IS IT SO CHEAP FOR SUCH A BIG PRINTER - I EXPECTED IT TO BE AT LEAST $1000
Exactly! It’s great value!
no way my fav youtuber replied to my comment!!!!!@@playconveyor
the 2 max is on sale for 300 dollars here now in china and i am really tempted to get it, but i have zero use for it and not to mention its humungous
$300 is insane… thats so much printer for the money! It definitely needs some space, but if the Kobra 2 pro performs the same for a couple of hundred dollar (which it should, similar tech) then AnyCubic are pumping out some insane quality for the price!
Do you have a large 3D printer, and has it improved your setup?
Do you need to where that on your face 3D printing?
I dare you to print a single item that takes up the entire buildplate
Challenge accepted 😝
Can you please give me the print button stl pwease 😢
I have a Kobra 2 Neo and it is goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
Oh amazing! The Neo is a BARGAIN too!
Yeah I picked one up for $150 for xmas and it prints well after a lot of tuning in Orca slicer.
I have anycubic kobra 2 max
🙌 do you like it?
am i a joke to you-elegoo orange storm giga
I am a the 600th person to like this video!
I think the proprietary slicers are pointless money wasters for these companies. Most are just trashy reskins of previously existing slicers. Why put in the R&D funding for something that is both unnecessary AND half-baked?
I agree with this, the only ones I’ve come across that are decent are basic carbon copies of the original, like Bambu (Orca) or Qidi (Prusa)
Helo, anyways, large printers have their pro's and con's samd with small ones, i like the video so far
Definitely! We were absolutely converted! Do you own one?
@@playconveyor I dont own a large format printer, I have an ender 3, a prusa mk3 and a bambu x1c
A1 Max
Do you think they will make one?
No they have announced that there next printer will be a top end Printer so probably an X2 or something.
It was due in 2024 but with the recall of the A1 I suspect they will push it back.
But it would not surprise me if they bring out an A1Max eventually.
@@WhyplayGaming I've always said I'm going to LMAO if they release an A1 Max before an X1 Max or at least P1 Max.
Let's see who laughs first.😅
I have a Kobra 2 max and I absolutely hate the thing. It's unreliable, loud and the print results are mediocre at best.
I had to make upgrades and take a lot of time calibrating to get halfway decent results.
Even after spending months now, none of my results look even close to what you are presenting here.
No idea if I keep it or switch to an A1 as soon as those become available again.
That’s frustrating… we’ve had a couple of printers in the past that everyone raved about and we just must have got bad ones! Hope you manage to get it sorted to some decent level eventually 🤞
Sorry, I looked into this machine and that goodness I did. Proprietary hotend nozzle, and the industries most crappy firmware...big no go for me, The original Kobra Maz was "OK" but they took everything tolerable and removed it for the max 2, a HUGE misstep anycubic. Why the hell deliver a massive printer with a 0.4 nozzle and NO WAY TO REPLACE IT WITH A 0.6 or 0.8 ???? Dumb as it get IMHO The WIFI is nothing but a way yo try and infect your phone with their useless software (and cant be used any other way.) The printer WILL NOT connect to other slicers, and is locked down. Stupid Stupid....look for these crippled machines to be on clearance for $300 within six months.
Why do you wear a fiktering mask in your studio?
He said he has a problem with AC in the room in some video
The studio is usually pretty sealed up with no ventilation to keep the moisture out and the printers are on constantly so the fumes really aren’t good! Although we try to wear one whenever we are in there…
To true. Most hobbyists don't realize the faint smell = particulates getting inside your body. Can't be good for people in the long run
Highly recommend a HEPA carbon filter!!!!
why are you wearing a mask while assembling?
Probably because of the printers printing with filaments that emit toxic gasses
The Printer is shit. Had only problems since the first day. After 2 months of arguments with support because they don't want to take the device back from me, it's now standing in the corner. Anycubic is the worst company I have ever dealt with.
Ive had my kobra 2 pro for about 6 months and every error ive had has been my own fault.
@@SnepBlepVR yeah. i´m shure the broken motors, faulty firmware and a unstable and bent printbed is my fault . . . this thing is garbage.
i got the kobra 2 and its been a brilliant 3d printer that i have now decided to get the kobra max 2 and to get rid of my ender 3 s1 plus
i did use to have the kobra max and that was a brilliant printer but the way they have done the kobra 2 printers seem to be a lot better
Exactly, I think the Kobra 2 printers rectified a lot of the little issues from the first series!