/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I have this sexy machine and not once have I found it not to be satisfactory. I purchased this a few years back when it first came back and to be honest it ran me 10 grand. I was reimbursed for it by the company I work for; right now it's sitting down in one of the tertiary workshops. It gets considerable use. Some asshat decided to print a plastic Stirling engine and wasted an entire spool of plastic.

This thing is a magnificent monster and has accuracy within one six-hundredth of an inch. As this thread has pointed out, they are PROTOTYPING machines. One rather interesting thing I've seen people do with them is print a prototype and make a mould out of it. I can't guess what they do with them but you can always assume.

Typically anyone printing anything with a rapid prototyper is limited by his skills in solidworks or whatever program you choose to use.

But yes, they are Prototypes. They're not meant to be as precise as you guys seem to want them. If you want precision get a machine like this- if not, get a crappy makerbot or a shitty 3d touch piece of garbage.

As the old idiom goes, you get what you pay for and that's extremely true in this market.

Alternatively, there are 3D printers nearing the range of $300 so have fucking at it.

Pic related, sexy Dimension 1200es