Suggestions for 3d printers

[Craig Keller]

Bambu Labs X1C or H2D is going to be the best fit for your first time 3D printer... as well as offering decent build volume, printing speeds and incredibly easy/plug and play 3d printing. As a 1st time owner, you will be amazed at how easy the 3D printing is with Bambu Labs.
Just make sure to feed good 3D files into the Bambu studio software

You'll also have access to high temp engineering grade filaments, as well as dirt cheap plastic filaments. For your usage, ABS or PETG-HF might be your ideal material.

Don't get a resin (SLA) printer. Don't get a Stratasys. Let us know what you decide.

how about the A1?

 

[dreko]

Hmmm didn't realize they were rubber. You can use TPU in the Bambu printers. Look it up.. people are printing sneakers, and all kinds of flexible items.

 

[tulsagraphics]

Well, if you are having to handle vehicle heat for the duck craze that jeep owners have, your looking at higher cost inputs regardless of the type of 3D printer (no using the cheaper PLA for that application), however, resin does have other costs as well (UV curing lamp etc). I use the resin for articulating figures for either stop motion or for action figures, so there is more room for budget friendly consideration there.

That, and resin (generally speaking) is just a neutral color. you have to prime / paint it, compared to FDM/FFF where you can print the colors you want. Lots of labor getting to your finished piece.

 

[tulsagraphics]

how about the A1?

Just go for the X1C IMO. That's what I have (among others). It's great!

 

[MGB_LE]

Interesting it's been the reverse for me.

I can understand. I always wanted to recycle my IPA for curing but never got around to it. I never tried water-washable resin. I geeked out over the detail of resin printing vs FFF, but the need for endless paper towels, ideally gloves, and tweaking the UV cure time sucked some of the joy out of it. I ran an Anycubic Mono X, which I upgraded to from the Anycubic Mono. I get more bang for my buck from FFF multicolor prints than the detail of SLA printing, and my prints are ready to use right off the build plate. I -may- in the future, try resin again.