Now fess up: Did you use your 3D scanner to help engineer that replacement part?
I just want Mrs. 72Pony to know what she is up against if she happens to okay Eric’s purchase of a 3D printer: filament, parts, potentially a 3D scanner…
Excellent job either way.
Note: I got myself in a bit of hot water with Mrs. ChelanJim today. I was reading some of the comments and the one about Knick offering shipping cost money once Erik’s invoice exceeded $800. The wife turns to me and said “So how is it that Erik has found one for $800?”
I had to throw Erik under the bus at that point: “Oh” I said, “Erik will decide that was a mistake and will need to buy the $1500 one in a year!” Sorry Erik!
The scanner did not come out of the drawer. I did think about busting it but I just used a steel rule. Get out of 30 seconds scale then I eyeballed some of it.
I will confess that this was the second iteration. The socket was a little tight on the first and I adjusted the shape of the body for aesthetics.
I tease about my wife holding me back but she is REALLY good to me. She actually surprised me with a new snowmobile after we finished remodeling our house a couple years ago. At the time I was traveling weekly to San Diego for a Reactor demo project. On the weekend i spent most of my time home working on the house and she rewarded me for it. She had her brother and dad go pick it up and had it loaded and ready to go when I got home on the weekend! I fully expect once the house is done and that stress is over as long as I keep it in budget she will reward me for it. I don’t deserve it… but I take it anyway.
If the slit in the middle is taking any sort of force, you will want to reorient your print. When designing, the layer lines are going to be the weak point, so plan accordingly.
In a perfect world every layer gets perfect and complete adhesion to the layer below on every print…unfortunately not the case.
I would use same color on the supports if possible. Every layer will need to switch filament between two different colors and add time. Check the slicer. I did similar video on color changes.
Dammit, y’all are going to get me in trouble with this thread.
Shopping now.
Is there a huge difference between the P1 and the X1 other than size? What am I not getting for $800 less?
Is there anything I want to add to it that I’m going to want to have later anyways?
She did ask me what I wanted her to get me for Christmas yesterday so…
X1 has a smoother and nicer operator interface, camera and fans. The enclosed P1 is the base model and the X1 is the Platinum model if you think of them like cars.
Open up a tab in your browser for each model and you can see the differences side by side. I Keep thinking of a P1 enclosed rather than another X1. Then I remember that every time I go with a sub model, I wish I spent the coin on the top.
So I’m basically wasting $700 by not spending $1500. Makes sense to me of course.
Anybody got any suggestions of anything I want to order with it when I do to get that out of the way too?
The P1S is not that different from the X1C. The main differences are the P1S doesn’t have a hardened nozzle or extruder gears and it doesn’t have lidar. The camera is lower resolution, but I don’t care because I’m not making videos. You can buy the hardened nozzle and extruder gears to upgrade the P1S.
The interface at the printer is not as good, but I hardly ever use that anyway. I use the app on my phone to control filament changes.
Yes, you can get some of the features that the X1 has that the P1 does not. then you get into the realm of “Tinkering” and “Modifying” in the name of saving money. Been there, Done that, and spent modifying a printer $1000 more than if I had just bought the right printer to start with.
I don’t have a dog in this hunt. You are the one that has to use it.
A better question is - “What do I plan on using this for? Right here, right now, what am I going to do with it?”
From that answer you can select the best printer for your needs. If it’s enclosed then you plan on using more exotic materials than simple PLA or PETG.
If you plan on using CF embedded materials, PA, ABS, ASA…, you will want the hardened steel extruder and nozzles, and enclosed print chamber.
I would suggest the p1s with a ams unit.Play with it till you move into different filaments that requires the hardened steel extruder and upgrade at that point.Its 19 dollars.I dont use the screen that much on mine because i have most controls in bambu studio.I design and start prints from work in my spare time all from bambu studio.I personally see no reason at this point to get the x1.
