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To: GRRRRR

As long as you understand that whatever you buy today may be obsolete in a year or two, go for it.

You’re on the bleeding edge of home 3D printing right now, and things are still shaking out.

The important thing to research is will your CAD software of choice support this 3D printer.

Remember the good old days of PCs when you had to have the proper driver for the specific dot matrix printer you wanted to use?


5 posted on 03/17/2015 12:03:58 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

“Remember the good old days of PCs when you had to have the proper driver for the specific dot matrix printer you wanted to use?”

Good old days? The first thing you have to do when you buy a new printer is download the updated driver.


14 posted on 03/17/2015 12:15:36 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Yo-Yo; GRRRRR
The important thing to research is will your CAD software of choice support this 3D printer. Remember the good old days of PCs when you had to have the proper driver for the specific dot matrix printer you wanted to use?

I'll go one step further: invest in a gamer- or engineering-level PC that has a decent graphics card/processor, before you invest in the 3D printer. You'll need something that can smoothly run CAD software and the printer drivers, especially when creating/editing more complex objects. A friend of mine grew increasingly frustrated with failed prints during the first 100 operating hours on his 3D printer, only to find out it wasn't his printer or even his programming skills. Instead, the failures were the result of using a crappy bargain laptop which could barely run his printer and editor. He replaced it with a high-end tower system, and can't stop raving about his hobby now.

19 posted on 03/17/2015 12:40:00 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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