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| Brass_Machine:
I ended up buying a 3D printer for my B-day this year. I have been looking at the prices of the Creality Ender 3 for awhile and took the bait. I ended up ordering the model with the glass plate bed and a few mods for it as well. Assembly was pretty easy. Running the test prints included with the printer came out nice. So, now I am playing around with slicers trying to figure out which seems to be the best to use. On the free side, there is Cura and Slic3R PE that a bunch of people like. Been hearing a lot about Simplify3D, but @ $150 us... is it worth it? Eric |
| awemawson:
Eric you know the rules - :worthless: :clap: |
| shipto:
Welcome to the club :clap: Even though I have a printer I had not used it for anything interesting until my daughter asked me about doing some figures from a game she plays. For everything I had been doing I used ultimaker cura and had no issues apart from having to fill in the damn form every time it updated (although this time round there was a option for not giving any data, not sure if it was always there and I missed it or not). Cura however had real problems with the model files and would leave big gaps in the print so I searched for something else and decided to try slic3r which handled the model files much better. So while I use cura for most things it ?DID? have bugs which required having alternatives. However I was told about simplify3D by a mate and decided that I could not justify spending that kind of money when I have managed with free slicers for everything I have tried. Not much help I know. |
| Brass_Machine:
--- Quote from: awemawson on April 28, 2019, 04:28:23 PM ---Eric you know the rules - :worthless: :clap: --- End quote --- Of course... :beer: |
| Brass_Machine:
--- Quote from: shipto on April 28, 2019, 04:35:34 PM ---.... until my daughter asked me about doing some figures from a game she plays. ... --- End quote --- Yup. My son is just getting into Dungeon and Dragons. He is thrilled that I can now print miniatures. What game does your daughter play? |
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