1 Topic by rafael_zimbres

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Topic: Cube Filaments

Hello everyone,

im looking foward to buy a CubPro trio, but i concern about the filaments, i can use any filament for cube printers or i need to buy cube onws filament?

Thank you for your consideration/attention

2 Reply by ceguilherme

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Re: Cube Filaments

is it possible to refill the cube pro cartridges ?

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Re: Cube Filaments

I have never owned a cube printer, but we looked into purchasing an industrial printer from 3D Systems, which owns Cube. All of their printers use proprietary materials which you can only get from them. My understanding is that the Cube cartridge has a chip in it which knows when the cartridge is empty. The chip cannot be reset, thus it renders the cartridge useless even if manually refilled.

Also, Cube's filament is among the most expensive I've seen for desktop printing weighing in at about $100/kg.

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-Custom built Solidoodle 3 clone w/ E3D v6+ Volcano    -Solidoodle Press w/ E3D Lite6
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Re: Cube Filaments

Thank you for ur answer Josh...

yeah, im also scared about maintenence...im from Brazil, and im not sure if i can easly find pieces to replace if something goes wrong...

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Re: Cube Filaments

Makerbot would be a good printer start with; they have printers comparable to the Cube, and they do not use cartridges. I have had mine for about a year and have had no issues with it. I'm sure there are plenty of other good printers out there too.

-Prusa i3 MK2s
-Airwolf HD2x w/ E3D v6 + Volcano
-Custom built Solidoodle 3 clone w/ E3D v6+ Volcano    -Solidoodle Press w/ E3D Lite6
Filastruder #1577

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Re: Cube Filaments

uhmm...thanks again Josh, will keep searching here...any other suggestion? what about Stratasys?

7 Reply by josh.aeauto (edited by josh.aeauto 2015-04-16 18:51:50)

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Re: Cube Filaments

Stratasys makes good printers but they will cost you about $150,000+ for their higher end FDM machines. I'm not sure if they have anything cheaper.

-Prusa i3 MK2s
-Airwolf HD2x w/ E3D v6 + Volcano
-Custom built Solidoodle 3 clone w/ E3D v6+ Volcano    -Solidoodle Press w/ E3D Lite6
Filastruder #1577

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Re: Cube Filaments

rafael_zimbres one big thing to know is if this is for business or personal use. If you are a business and can spend more, then a stratasys printer might be a good idea. However for personal use I would avoid Makerbot because they have a bad track record with planned obsolescence and other unsavory business practices. A Davinci printer might be good, they tend to print well, although they have proprietary filament.