Even with my old/cheap Ender 3 Pro, I printed something overnight took 13.5 hrs, there it was
gurjeet•52m ago
You might already have one, and just don't know it :-) If you don't, it's much cheaper to get one that the author considers a 3D printer.
From TFA:
> 1. I like to think that all printers are 3D, unless it's a printer in Flatland.
Bayart•34m ago
I've been telling myself that for as long as 3D-printing has been consumer tech (about 20 years ?) and now it's shifted to "I'll borrow one my friends' printers if needs be".
In truth every time an issue fit for 3D printing has come up in my life, I solved it easily with wood and cardboard. I'm starting to recognize I might be a craftsman at heart.
IncreasePosts•11m ago
Borrowing from a friend/library/work/low-cost maker space is the way to go unless you plan on printing with the thing for numerous hours per day on average. Having said that, once you start 3d printing, it becomes a tool you reach to more and more
nozzlegear•1m ago
I thought the same thing while reading this. But I worry that I'd get one and it'd just sit on a shelf somewhere collecting dust.
ramboldio•53m ago
I think that is a fantastic insight that 'Making niche solutions is the point' with 3D printing.
Unfortunately, it is still very hard to _design_ niche solutions. The usability of CAD tools did not really improve at all in the last 20 years..
Arcanum-XIII•16m ago
CAD is complicated, yes.
But the biggest pain point is that engineering requires a lot of adjacent knowledge about material, tolerance, mechanical design, tooling, and so on.
Making things requires patience.
CAD is the easy part.
barumrho•47m ago
AI coding tools are providing non-programmers giving similar ability. Not production quality, but still useful to them everyday and they can tweak as they go.
direwolf20•1h ago
ge96•1h ago
gurjeet•52m ago
From TFA:
> 1. I like to think that all printers are 3D, unless it's a printer in Flatland.
Bayart•34m ago
In truth every time an issue fit for 3D printing has come up in my life, I solved it easily with wood and cardboard. I'm starting to recognize I might be a craftsman at heart.
IncreasePosts•11m ago
nozzlegear•1m ago