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RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

JenHopkins — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:19:56 GMT

A nice 3D printer price comparison: http://www.3dprintfox.com/ultimate-3d-printer-price-comparison.php

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

Warsoul — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:16:11 GMT

Solidoodle 3 is reliable ? Because has i know the wont give warranty for their stuffs. It seem the best printer for his price and potentials. Their waiting time still 9 months ?

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

WendellWoW — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:06:17 GMT

Oh the possibilities. Making my own action figures for my kids, based on their favorite game or cartoon character would be so cool. Instant art projects to paint your own person.

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

realneil — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:23:11 GMT

We used to use Z, X, and Y plus and minus coordinates in the aircraft industry.

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

Dave_HH — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:47:03 GMT

Not quite. It's a little different when you're describing a 3D print area. Here's a diagram....

A pictures worth a thousand words as they say.

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

MCaddick — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:12:07 GMT

Um, isn't the Y plane generally used to describe the height attributes of objects, at least in computer 3D space.

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

danjay — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:35:42 GMT

Don't forget the Portabee!

http://portabee3dprinter.com

Under $500, sweet little machine

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

OSunday — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:57:19 GMT

Great Vid!

Loved the comparison between the 3 but I was definitely a fan of the Solidoodle over the other two. It had the best price and capabilities if one is willing to invest a little bit of elbow grease which I think goes hand in hand with the nature of 3D printing anyways.

I'm just wondering why the MakerBot replicator series of 3-D printers wasn't included or compared to these?

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

Dorkstar — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:14:22 GMT

Patent war or no patent war. This field is obviously going to be a dog eat dog field until someone breaks through as the go to manufacturer for 3d printing. As soon as prices drop just a little bit more and the usability is proven, these things will start popping up everywhere.

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

eunoia — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:40:45 GMT

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

Dave_HH — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:00:07 GMT

DrBlackadder, In general, I am totally indifferent to legalese like this to be honest. The level of bs and static about patent wars that we hear in the news these days is ridiculous and a waste of bandwidth in my opinion. We just pulled three low cost printers that we could get in for review coverage. I could care less about the patent wars but your insight is welcome here of course. We'll just stick to what we do here.

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

DrBlackAdder — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:32:38 GMT

Interesting comparison, but you have failed to mention that 3D Systems (Maker of the Cube 3D printer) are currently suing the Kickstarter startup Formlabs, on what are seemingly baseless grounds: (http://blog.makezine.com/2012/11/21/3d-systems-suing-formlabs-and-kickstarter-for-patent-infringement/)

For people who wish to support the rise of these technologies, it's really, really important to know what their money will be put towards, pushing technology, or squashing competition, let an informed decision be had by all.

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

Dorkstar — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:37:14 GMT

Dave_HH:

RT, The possibilities are literally limitless. From custom phone cases, to that little piece of whatever that broke off and it would be great if you could replace it, the technology is very powerful. I think the next big innovation we'll have in this area is the input side of the equation. Say you need to scan something in to be able to print it, not just the exterior visible structure but modeling for replication of a complex design. It should be interesting to see where this technology takes us!

I was thinking about that earlier. The ability to copy an item that is. It really doesn't seem that difficult, as i'm sure it could be done using a calibrated measuring object and a Xbox kinect or something similar that can capture a 3d model.

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

Dave_HH — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:14:39 GMT

RT, The possibilities are literally limitless. From custom phone cases, to that little piece of whatever that broke off and it would be great if you could replace it, the technology is very powerful. I think the next big innovation we'll have in this area is the input side of the equation. Say you need to scan something in to be able to print it, not just the exterior visible structure but modeling for replication of a complex design. It should be interesting to see where this technology takes us!

RE: 3D Printer Round-up: Cube 3D, Up! and Solidoodle

Dorkstar — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:03:41 GMT

RTietjens:

One commercial use with which I am personally familiar is making custom cases for nano PCs such as the Raspberry Pi and the APC.IO; and I can see the average joe wanting a 3D print of a family photo, to be hand-painted in realistic colors, for his office desk.

Did you see the phone cases people made with the 3d printers? I thought that was rather neat as well.