3D printers recommendations
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 8:46 am
Hey guys,
I'm opening a thread there so you can post what printers you use and the parts you get so it helps people to chose their printers.
I have 2 Anycubic resin printers, the Photon and the Mono X. Both are great the Photon, is really great to do small parts at a low cost but the mono is even better, while more expensive, you can print a lot of small parts at the same time (would would like to print thousand of tiny rivets in less than 10 min ?
).
Finish are awesome, most of the time you dont need any sanding, sometimes you'll have to do a small sanding job with 400 or 500 sand paper (but most of the time it's because of the bad orientation of the part on the bed).
Here are some parts I 3D printed (recreating at half scale the filming model of a Return of the Jedi ship, this means I have to model and print at half the scale all the original kitparts they used to detail it, you can spot a 1/35 Tamiya Churchill Crocodile tank part in there
. The half scale model is still big, 120cm long).
You can print everything with excellent details...
In addition to my resin printers I have an Anycubic Wash and Cure machine. It mades the cleaning process of the resin parts very easy and post cure with UV the parts in a matter of a few min (usually 2 to 4 min for small parts is more than enough).
I also use an Ultimaker (with PETG mostly) for big parts that requires no details.
So I have the
-Anycubic Photon which can be found for very cheap
-Anycubic Mono X for large print. It also print a lot faster.
-I've using the Anycubic Mono SE at work which has the same print volume than the Photon mostly but has the same kind of screen than the Mono X, which means it prints much faster.
Those 3 are great !
From what I've read the Elegoo printers are very good too, I let people post what they use.
I'm opening a thread there so you can post what printers you use and the parts you get so it helps people to chose their printers.
I have 2 Anycubic resin printers, the Photon and the Mono X. Both are great the Photon, is really great to do small parts at a low cost but the mono is even better, while more expensive, you can print a lot of small parts at the same time (would would like to print thousand of tiny rivets in less than 10 min ?
). Finish are awesome, most of the time you dont need any sanding, sometimes you'll have to do a small sanding job with 400 or 500 sand paper (but most of the time it's because of the bad orientation of the part on the bed).
Here are some parts I 3D printed (recreating at half scale the filming model of a Return of the Jedi ship, this means I have to model and print at half the scale all the original kitparts they used to detail it, you can spot a 1/35 Tamiya Churchill Crocodile tank part in there
. The half scale model is still big, 120cm long).You can print everything with excellent details...
In addition to my resin printers I have an Anycubic Wash and Cure machine. It mades the cleaning process of the resin parts very easy and post cure with UV the parts in a matter of a few min (usually 2 to 4 min for small parts is more than enough).
I also use an Ultimaker (with PETG mostly) for big parts that requires no details.
So I have the
-Anycubic Photon which can be found for very cheap
-Anycubic Mono X for large print. It also print a lot faster.
-I've using the Anycubic Mono SE at work which has the same print volume than the Photon mostly but has the same kind of screen than the Mono X, which means it prints much faster.
Those 3 are great !
From what I've read the Elegoo printers are very good too, I let people post what they use.
