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I've got a Makerbot Replicator 1/Dual (the last of the 'opensource' Makerbots and currently replicated by the Flashforge Creator 3D for half the price I paid :-) which was much better than the original Makerbot 'cupcake' or the early reprap machines. And that suggests to me its a time thing, not a 'new science' thing between when 3D printers start delivering on their potential. For any manufacturing technology its going to be speed, cost, finish, and capability and while personal 3d printers have nailed it on cost, and they are now competitive on speed, they are working on finish and capability. The point being that tools are only as good as the training of the operator so tool comparison really does need to expert operators if it wants to be diagnostic.īut what it does say, and I believe it is incontrovertible, is that the 'personal 3d printer' market is evolving at least as fast as the 'professional' 3d printer market and the overlap of capabilities is growing. I know people who can carve a bust out of ice with a chainsaw, but I'd be lucky to make a square block with the very same chainsaw and equivalent ice. There is also the entire 'tools' thing where the tool is often less important than the operator. I enjoyed reading this, as the author stated it is a rather contrived test, there are things the Stratasys printer can print that the Printrbot cannot (anything with complex overhangs and undercuts) but that really wasn't the point I think. That's the same class of people who put their recipes on floppy disks in C64 days. And doing it yourself is a great option for people who want to do it themselves. For a few use cases doing it yourself is the best option. Not worth setting up a Blender scene to do it in the blink of an eye today.įor most people, there are better options than doing it themselves. Amazing to see it come out line by line over four hours at 320x200 in 1989. It's like raytracing silver balls above a red and yellow checkerboard. It's Buck Rodgers cool when it's on the screen, but the reality of waiting 8 hours for maybe getting a widget only appeals to some people. But only because most snowflakes are content without doing it as a hobby. The idea that we will all be making our personalized LPS ( Little Plastic Shit) to our snowflake's content is true.

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The $600 product easily solves the 95% case.Īnd for a consumer oriented product probably the 99.9% case since most will sit on the shelf because it's still printing and how much stuff do people download off the internet and print with their color printers these days? Hanselman's analysis is reasonable and not misleading.

I wasn't being critical, I was being compelled.