I run a pair of K1C's before changing to them I ran FLSUN delta's. I get much better quality, speed, and ease of printing out of the K1C's. I'm a huge fan.
What's your favorite FDM rig?
hoffmantactical I run nylon CF in the ams no problem.
I've got a Qidi XPlus-3 and it's been great. For the money, I think it's one of the best options available.
JamesHuffman Interesting! I know that they say not to use their PET-CF, which is what I had in mind.
I’ve got a Voron Trident and a Ender 3 Pro, the Trident has been a blast to build and setup. My current project is setting up an ERCF (open source AMS)
hoffmantactical it gives you a warning but I have never been one to just let someone else tell me something won't work.
Personally I like the Prusa lineup. I have helped my friends tune their Creality printers and while you can get fantastic quality from them it takes a lot to tune them. The Bambu printers I've used seem ok, but you can get better quality with fine tuning and open printer in my opinion.
point_dude I like Prusa because of the slicer and how well it integrates with their machines. Bambu added issues when they remixed it.
I use my Ender 3 for PLA only, and my Ender 3 S1 for everything else. I'm a tinkerer and a learner so maybe other printers are better but I'm happy with them. I design and print a ton of stuff with them. Only real mods are a CR Touch for the Ender 3, all metal hot end plus abrasive nozzle for the S1, and custom tweaked marlin firmware for both.
Hoffman got me to switch from Cura to PrusaSlicer while doing the SL9 and I've never gone back. I'm still using Fusion though. I'm too cheap to buy expensive CAD software and I haven't been successful so far switching to Solid Edge. I'm just too comfortable and experienced with Fusion. I hate that it's cloud based though.
JamesHuffman How's the voron like?
hoffmantactical Awesome! Would love to show it to you sometime soon. Most examples online with the XL have been for aesthetics and not for function. I'll post updates here as I do more testing for functional parts (Which is of my focus) . So far it's been great, and I've been discovering some interesting phenomenons and applications.
I used to use the Ender 3 pro, but upgraded to the Cr10 smart pro with their Klipper tablet. 10/10, fast speed and pretty good quality.
Using a Bambu A1 as my main since it's been the most reliable, has multi material, and easiest to swap hotends. Gonna refurb the Ender 3 pro, when I have time, to have a baseline for 3D designs. Probably gonna sell the Kobra 2 pro because it's the least reliable although it is the fastest of the trio. On the fence about getting another A1, an A1-mini, Voron, or Prusa MK4S. Part of me wants to tinker but part of me wants to design and just send it.
I own the Creality Ender 3 Pro, and it has served me well over the past two years or so. Before that I had a Monoprice Select Mini, which was ok in 2017, but definitely lacking in many ways compared to the Ender 3 Pro. I have been looking into upgrading to a Voron 2.4 or Creality K1 Max, but I don't use my printer that much that I don't know if it's worth an upgrade.
Having just gotten into 3d printing I went with the beginners choice. I went with the Ender 3 s1 pro because it could run the carbon nylon I’ve been so intrigued by. It’s taken a lot of tinkering to get clean prints since switching from cheap pla to anything else. It’s all I have at the moment so it’s my favorite, but I’m looking forward to something with multi material down the line
Is there a good guide out there for fine tuning s1 pro? I really don’t want to get into firmware upgrades yet
PistollPeet find some print tests out there on websites like thingaverse, printables, or makerworld. In general its a good idea to do these test to see where you need to fine tune your printer, some test will work flawlessly, but some you may see some things where you will have to fine tune.
Axlaser Will do! I had some early success with such tests yet I wasn’t aware filaments varied so much and need to be dialed in per filament/color.
Do multi filament printers use different profiles for each type when swapping?