<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Make Magazine 2013 3D Printer Shootout]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/4501/make-magazine-2013-3d-printer-shootout/ Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:32:45 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Make Magazine 2013 3D Printer Shootout]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/41309/#p41309 soo sad to see solidoodle rated this poorly... but for half of the price... it's still pretty good...
but i wonder why didn't solidoodle 2 wins the value.. for 500 it's still a pretty good value printer

]]> Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:32:45 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/41309/#p41309 <![CDATA[Re: Make Magazine 2013 3D Printer Shootout]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/41191/#p41191 Here is Make's blurb-

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/51umxe9vj89mrzg/tqwP_UIKBk

]]> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 03:21:44 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/41191/#p41191 <![CDATA[Re: Make Magazine 2013 3D Printer Shootout]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/41139/#p41139 They may have gotten a z rod that was drilled by their blind machinist.  Last year the problems they had with their prints would have been solved with a couple of simple adjustments in Slic3r or Skeinforge.  This year they have stock profiles to work with, and hopefully enough 3D printer experience that the bad review isn't due to the print not sticking to the bed.

I thought there would be some Deltas, but they only listed one which was a prototype.  SeeMeCNC is shipping deltas so they could have at least picked up one of those.


That shockwatch looks cool, but even cooler would be photoshopping some labels and taping them on without putting the sensor inside.   Popular Mechanics shipped accelerometers around the country to test the handling of several carriers - http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol … r-packages

They found that packages marked fragile really did get rougher handling.

]]> Sat, 09 Nov 2013 16:24:54 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/41139/#p41139 <![CDATA[Re: Make Magazine 2013 3D Printer Shootout]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/41137/#p41137 Man. MAKE magazine is all aboard the MBI hype train.

I wonder what went wrong with the SD3 that made them rate it so poorly when it costs 1/4th of the price of the MB...

]]> Sat, 09 Nov 2013 16:16:22 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/41137/#p41137 <![CDATA[Re: Make Magazine 2013 3D Printer Shootout]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/41133/#p41133 maby they should add these to the Solidoodle package
http://shockwatch.com.au/shipping_and_h … cators.htm

]]> Sat, 09 Nov 2013 14:45:20 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/41133/#p41133 <![CDATA[Re: Make Magazine 2013 3D Printer Shootout]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/41131/#p41131 d12dozr wrote:

I was surprised to see the solidoodle rate so low! Are other printers really that much better?

http://makezine.com/magazine/guide-to-3 … y-compare/

There may be a printer out there engineered so that a trip on a UPS truck doesn't throw it totally out of calibration. I'd certainly rate it higher if price was no object :-).

]]> Sat, 09 Nov 2013 13:49:58 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/41131/#p41131 <![CDATA[Re: Make Magazine 2013 3D Printer Shootout]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/41130/#p41130 Lol... Buyer Beware.

Buyer Beware

These printers did not perform well, arrived broken, or broke during the testing.

MendelMax 2.0 from Maker's Tool Works
    MendelMax 2.0 from Maker’s Tool Works

Solidoodle 3rd Generation
    Solidoodle 3rd Generation

MBot Cube II
    MBot Cube II

]]> Sat, 09 Nov 2013 13:44:21 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/41130/#p41130 <![CDATA[Make Magazine 2013 3D Printer Shootout]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/41127/#p41127 I was surprised to see the solidoodle rate so low! Are other printers really that much better?

http://makezine.com/magazine/guide-to-3 … y-compare/

]]> Sat, 09 Nov 2013 11:25:31 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/41127/#p41127