Is 3D printing a popular hobby in your country?

>>212795591 (OP)
no it takes money wood working was though when i was younger in the 2010 among boomers,they all used to make icons,different ugly wood ornaments and simple furniture.

>>212796007
It's like 300€ upfront to start printing and then like 20€ /kg for the material. Is that a large sum of money in Serbia?

>>212796187
how much are the good ones

also avrg salary is 500euro

>>212796187
That's half a years pay in slavic cunts.

>>212796253
You can get a nice one with multimaterial printing for like 700€.
>also avrg salary is 500euro
Monthly or yearly?

>>212796253
the bambu a1 mini is 200€ and yeah it's small, but it's genuinely such a simple printer to use and for that price it's a steal, especially if you just want to print small fixes around the house or sell those flexible dragons

>>212795591 (OP)
I enjoy 3D modelling and have thought about getting one but then I think, I'm just going to fill up my home with useless little printed models and other rubbish, what for. Very rarely do I think "huh I could 3D print this if I had a 3D printer". I'm more interested in getting a laser cutter to be fair.

>>212796548
>I'm more interested in getting a laser cutter
You might actually be the target audience for the Bambu H2D, it's a 3d printer/laser cutter/regular cutter
though it's probably just more cost effective to get a machine that's good at one thing rather than a jack of all trades

>>212796519
Yeah A1 is supposedly great for its price but the only Bambulabs printer I've tried is the P1S which is a really nice printer, although costly. I bought an Ender 3 Neo V2 for like 220€ including a nozzle cleaning kit, two bottles of adhesive and two kilos of PLA for my first printer since I figured that any problem I run into has already been solved by the community due to its popularity.
>>212796548
in Finland public libraries offer 3D printing services for the cost of materials for those who want to 3D print but can't justify buying a printer for themselves.

>>212795591 (OP)
I want to get into 3d printing

>>212796965
Just reported you to Scotland Yard, have fun in the slammer kiddo

>>212796865
Yea the Ender 3 is still a solid printer if you're willing to put a modicum of effort into fixing things or upgrading it and the community is huge, but after getting an A1 and everything just working almost all the time I can't ever go back to manually leveling a bed again
The big negative about bambu is the chinese question and how they're not privacy friendly, but I've had my machine on LAN mode since I got it and I guess it's fine for now, but I'm really considering not getting another bambu for my next printer, possibly a Centauri Carbon if there's some fixes in the near future

>>212795591 (OP)
Yes, every 30-year-old male develops an interest in bird watching, climbing, or 3D printing.

>>212796667
I'll check it out who knows
>>212796865
>in Finland public libraries offer 3D printing services for the cost of materials for those who want to 3D print but can't justify buying a printer for themselves.
Neat actually.

>>212796519
i cant realy think of things that break in my house that i could fix with a 3d printer to be honest.

>>212796449
semi monthly depending on the firm sometimes its late a few months.

>>212796965
it looks shit

>>212795591 (OP)
yes
i own an ender 3
one day i wanna buy either something with a large volume or something that prints very fast

>>212795591 (OP)
They have a 3d printer in the local library. Never used it though.

>>212797053
Part of the charm of the Ender 3 is tinkering with it. And I had the Neo V2 model which had most of the kinks sorted out already so I didn't need to upgrade it, just finetune it constantly. But yeah I'd probably buy a Prusa XL or a Bambulabs P1S if I was in the market for a new printer and needed something that performs well consistently.
>>212797116
If you look around you might find something like it in your area. There's also these things called "hacklab" in Finland where you pay some measly amount for a monthly membership and get access to a range of tools such as 3D printers, basic machining equipment like welding stations and drills, electronics assembly equipment and such.

>>212797053
>Centari Carbon
It seriously feels too good to be true, like just the normal Centauri is €240 and it's a coreXY with a fairly big area, if the Neptune 4 wasn't such a disaster I would almost trust Elegoo and get one just because

>>212795591 (OP)
that fad is long over

>>212797320
>something with a large volume or something that prints very fast
You want a 3D printer that has a large print volume, prints extremely fast, is very accurate, and also affordable at consumer prices?

I have MK3S at home and also at work and we also talked management into getting us a 5T XL.

Only among the eunuch class (ITcels)

I feel like I'm hearing more and more about it, also my brother works at a warehouse and he said that in recent months they've been shipping a fuckton of printers.
I like it because it's great for small electronics projects that would previously either have been impossible or incredibly clunky

>>212798122
pure sex. for the longest time I thought that Ultimakers were cool for their multiextruder output but Prusa XL and Bambulabs P1S take the cake

>>212798312
I've designed a lot of casings for stuff like RasPi applications and such and I even designed a robotic gripper that can be printed and modularly added on to. I've done lots of stuff which I simply 3D printed, then iterated on the design. It's extremely efficient for prototyping.

>>212798321
Multiple heads are crazy good. No just for toy shit with multiple colors, but mostly for PLA/PETG supports. If you set them right you straight up can't tell there were any supports

>>212797881
im saying something like a bambu labs 3d printer with insane accelerations out of the box.
or something like a Creality CR-30 or a 30cmx30cm+ printer s i can make big shit

>>212798574
I've heard that there are even water soluble support materials. Never seen them myself
>>212798613
I made that joke since you don't seem to know what you actually want. fast prints or big prints? which one?

I paint miniatures and so does a friend of mine so I considered a 3D printer but I think that would open a whole new thing by itself that I am not sure I want to mess around with. Seems like a cool thing tho.

>>212799304
3D printing is great for modeling. You don't even need to print the actual character models. I've printed some texture rollers to use on modeling clay, it's the bees knees. Also windows, doors, furniture and such when you make e.g. a tavern for Mordheim or a 40K cathedral from scratch.

>>212799545
whats a good budget to mid range printer for such a use? main concern is that I dont paint that much often to justify several hundred eurodollars on such a machine

>>212799665
For minis you want a resin printer. Terrain in doable with classic FDM.
I have an old Elegoo Mars, I don't think you will make a mistake if you buy the newest version of that

>>212799665
Well I've used my Ender 3 Neo V2 for such but as noted the Bambulabs A1 might be the better option if you don't want to be adjusting it all the time. Both are ~200€. And if you don't want to splash that cash on something you're not sure about, check out some 3D models on free sites (which are where I got all my 3D models for miniature modeling) such as thingiverse and sketchfab.
>>212799842
This guy is also right. Terrain and fixtures such as doors and windows are easily printed with FDM printers but if you want to print characters you need a resin printer which are harder to come by for public use.

All of these are quite easily made with a basic FDM printer. Just stick one on your medieval 1/32 tavern made of cardboard and it looks good

>>212796965
you can make a sten gun or really any tube smg from stuff you get at a hardware store, dunno why you'd make one of these

>>212795591 (OP)
Yes I have 3 creality printers

lattice windows? man this sucks to model. even my shitty Ender 3 would shit out an entire 40 of these in 8 hours

>>212798920
both im just not sure which ill get first
im thinking neptune 4 max or something in the 40x40cm range but i need space for that

I 3d print molds with a wax filament and then cast old lead airgun pellets into them. Lead is great because it melts quickly, oxidizes very slowly in its molten state, doesn't fume like zinc, and casts under its own gravity without making voids, if you use an electric burner there's usually no risk of vaporizing it either.

>>212800341
have you considered just using LuBan? I've made a 1 by 1 meter art sculpture with it using a regular 20cm^3 printer. yes you'll have to glue the pieces together but you can make huge prints with it.

>>212800685
seems cool for decorative stuff.
ive made things where its too big for one print so there's holes for bolts+nuts to connect them but when something breaks its always around those connections. you could probably do most things with a small printer if you're creative enough, make parts that dovetail into each other and can be easily glued together but i just want the ability to just give the printer a big print and come back 2 days later to a complete print

>>212799842
>>212800036
Thanks, I'll look into it further. If I am to make such a purchase I will make a thread on /int/ to let you know.

>>212801182
That pic is confusing and not about the regular use case for the software. LuBan divides large 3D models into individual pieces that are about the 20^3 cm printing volume of a regular printer and creates dowels for them to attach to each other. With glue they become very sturdy. The "module" part of that pic seems about right. Printing 1m^3 models with a 20cm^3 printer.

>>212799665
check the second hand market in your area here you can get printers for half the retail price second hand. the only thing you might need to replace is the nozzle but those are like 2$ for 10

>>212795591 (OP)
It's only a niche hobby among the wealthy architectural and engineering college students who have too much time in their hands. The general population even those without children can't afford one.

>>212802677
in English doc

>>212804393
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