/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2750904
>>2750905
Can I get some context for what these are and how they are used?

>>2750828
I feel you.
5 years ago I bought the anycubic i3 mega, *becasue* it had the prebuilt pressed metal frame that worked out-of-the-box after connecting gantry to base. At the time I was considering all the aluminium extrusion based machines because extensibility, so I ended up buying the i3 and then later building an alu-extrusion based coreXY as an endless design/tinker build that never got finished or used to print.... I was redesigning everything faster than I finished anything in pursuit of whatever good design idea i saw or thought up.

Now that I have come back to 3d printing after several years hiatus I clearly see that the INability to alter the basic frame, and it's inherent physical rigidness, are highly desirable. I mean I modify all the bits that go on it, but the frame itself is a hard limitation - and this is a good thing.
Having one dependable, boring machine, and one that you go nuts with, is a good approach. Particularly when the dependable machine can easily be one that only has a small build size... it's only going to be used to print parts for the other machine anyway.