Who uses 3d printers & 3d scanners.

[Spoon]

I have a couple of printers, a cr10s (with loads of mods, auto bed levelling, enhanced hotend & fans, aluminium feed, dampers on steppers etc etc.) And a stock (ish) ELEGOO mars 4 ultra.

Software I use voxeldance tango for the mars, and cura for the cr10s.

For design work I use fusion360

No scan stuff, although I did use something some time ago, which from several std photos built a 3d image

I take it that you love to tinker with them... There are some really nice upgrades that people have done to their printers.
With the ones we have at work there is not a lot to upgrade, which is just as well as I'm not much of a tinkerer..

The scanner we got is an Einstar. Cost about a grand. Not very good for scanning small parts though and their 'small' function on the software is just terrible and they know it. They just recommend another scanner, that cost 2.5 grand....

I've always fancied self-teaching myself Fusion 360 but just don't have the time as the mo. I self-taught myself SketchUp and Siemens NX. YouTube is a great place to learn stuff.

 

[Julie.]

I take it that you love to tinker with them... There are some really nice upgrades that people have done to their printers.
With the ones we have at work there is not a lot to upgrade, which is just as well as I'm not much of a tinkerer..

The scanner we got is an Einstar. Cost about a grand. Not very good for scanning small parts though and their 'small' function on the software is just terrible and they know it. They just recommend another scanner, that cost 2.5 grand....

I've always fancied self-teaching myself Fusion 360 but just don't have the time as the mo. I self-taught myself SketchUp and Siemens NX. YouTube is a great place to learn stuff.

Not really, the cr10s was definitely an entry level printer made down to a price, so it was pretty much de rigueur that you had to add bracing, hotend, feed mods etc.

In all honesty the best two mods were firstly the auto leveling - had to add opto isolation and a few other bits of electronics to get it working; and secondly an octoprint driver (its a Raspberry Pi running software to manage the printer etc) - once these were done, I can leave it untouched for months then start it and it runs straight away without issues.

(Having sorted out the settings etc and configured in cura)

Fusion 360 is extremely easy once you get past the initial couple of hours of use/learning - but also extremely frustrating when you want to do some things!

This is probably the best introduction

View: https://youtu.be/A5bc9c3S12g?si=qpolqib6oxgtB-jd

 

[Spoon]

Not really, the cr10s was definitely an entry level printer made down to a price, so it was pretty much de rigueur that you had to add bracing, hotend, feed mods etc.

In all honesty the best two mods were firstly the auto leveling - had to add opto isolation and a few other bits of electronics to get it working; and secondly an octoprint driver (its a Raspberry Pi running software to manage the printer etc) - once these were done, I can leave it untouched for months then start it and it runs straight away without issues.

(Having sorted out the settings etc and configured in cura)

Fusion 360 is extremely easy once you get past the initial couple of hours of use/learning - but also extremely frustrating when you want to do some things!

This is probably the best introduction

View: https://youtu.be/A5bc9c3S12g?si=qpolqib6oxgtB-jd

The first printer we got was the Ender 3 S1 Pro. This is quite a good printer with the extras like bed leveling...

Bambu has an app there you can monitor your print with the built in camera and remote send prints to the printers. The Orca Slicer software also can do this.

I'll have to have a look at that YouTube, when I have time.