[ Closed ] Introducing Three New Solidoodle Models (Page 19 of 28)

thats a good one!

SD make awful design decisions, mislead there customers with a presale before final design is even finalised and ignore every piece of feedback we gave them about what they should develop in a new line of printers

we... the customers get annoyed and register our grievance..... get accused of trolling.

proctor_richard wrote:

thats a good one!

SD make awful design decisions, mislead there customers with a presale before final design is even finalised and ignore every piece of feedback we gave them about what they should develop in a new line of printers

we... the customers get annoyed and register our grievance..... get accused of trolling.

I don't think anyone was saying you can't be legitimately aggrieved and 'voice' those opinions. Rather I think its probably not as productive inside this thread as one would hope because;

Its a marketing thread for SD - the mere tittle's persistence in an active topics thread helps. Given most people probably wont wade through the 20 odd pages they might at most read the first posts; and the last to get a 'current status' handle on it.

Regardless - all the activity keeps that keyword bonanza - "Introducing Three New Solidoodle Models" - high on the keyword index over at google and it high in the active topics list here

So if you really want an impact - think in an SEO context - traffic in this thread will only help the initial subject line and not much else. Start a new thread with keywords more orientated to how you feel reflects the situation, and drive traffic to that thread and let this thread slip away into the annals of internet history and out of 'active topics'...

I now return to my intermittent lurking...

or if models can be rotated/re-sized/moved in this software

wire10ga wrote:

Yes it sucks with the delays. That is the point. They rushed something to market that was and is not ready.

So laugh all you want now, cause when you get your machine after the new year and still have tons of same ole problems of the current machines your tune will change.  If you think it will be polished you are sorely mistaken.

Yeah I'm pretty sure this has already been stated. Please read the whole thread before re-posting an identical post. The community welcomes any and all NEW content. Thank you

I bought an SD4 back in July, literally 4 days before they dropped the price from $1000 to $699. Looking back, I was mostly taken in by 8x8x8 volume (that I will never be able to fully use because the printer just isn't reliable enough to make it through a print that big), the all metal body (which was bent in several places), enclosed, and the nice injection molded door (first-time buyer syndrome? lol) I have to admit that I think that I purchased mainly on the appearance and build volume. It was my first printer, so of course I was excited.

After getting it I was very disappointed with the print quality right out of the box and after spending weeks of calibrating and tweaking - blowing through nearly two rolls of wasted filament - I was sobered. Even after all that work, the results were still disappointing 7/10 times. At first I thought it was my lack of experience, but after months of screwing around with it and reading many others' experiences, I know it is not just me.

So, then came all the upgrades trying to get a decent and reliable printer. Nearly another $1000 later in parts that might end up making it a decent printer.

For $1000, there is no excuse for not including many of the NECESSARY upgrades such as stepper motors that aren't underpowered, an adequate power supply, linear bearings in the carriages, a standard J hotend mount, pillow block bearings to stop the flexing on the transmission roller, better belt adjustment besides a hole punched in the belt with a bolt through it (really!!!??), at least semi-decent fans that don't sound like a semi-truck and stop running half the time, better wire management so the extruder wire bundle doesn't catch on the edge of the bed while printing and screw up your print 4 hours into it, Better end carriages that don't cause the extruder fan to jam the bolt into the blades when moving to the front left corner (I had to limit my Y build area to 160mm to prevent this), a Z end-stop that actually works, maybe even a flex coupler on the Z axis? Or how about an aluminum bed that isn't warped so badly it was almost unusable and misaligned Y axis rods that caused the head to move down a slope so bed leveling is nearly impossible.

Looking back, I would never have purchased this printer had I known what I know now. Maybe that is what disappoints me the most. I would guess that most people that chose the Solidoodle were first time printer owners. I know they will go through all that I went through questioning whether 3D printing just really isn't there yet. Questioning whether it is just them doing something wrong to get crappy prints. Spending lots of extra money trying to upgrade things that should have been standard. Having such unreliable prints that they can't even print the upgrade parts. Upgrades that ultimately void their warranty so they are stuck. I only hope those buyers don't just give up on 3D printing. Thankfully, my work has a few other 3D printers now and I know what is possible. Now I know that it was just a bad printer.

After completely tearing it down, I found even the metal enclosure was flimsy and bent in areas where the rods were installed (no wonder I had so many issues.)

I had been looking at the workbench for the added size and dual extruders, but it appears to have kept just about all of the things we hated about my SD4. How can a company read these complaints day in and day out and simply keep doing the same things?

Very disappointed.