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I have had a few 3D printers from £200 - £35,000 with differing technologies SLA, FDM etc. Basically you get what you pay for !! Yes the £35,000 SLA made PERFECT parts with polished surfaces and uM accuracy BUT cost £300 per litre for material and took geological times to print. For personal use I now have an ANET A8, bought from LAZADA (plenty of places sell them) Its a knock off but it came well packed and actually it went together really well. Its called the UPGRADED version which has some good bits, but beware the REAL upgrade has auto bed levelling - mine came with a sensor thats now in the bin, and the wrong software to run it! However the good old fashioned method using a microswitch is still better!! Cost PHP14,000 (you can get it for PHP12,000 ish) I have to say its better than my HP and BFB FDM printer by a LONG WAY, and good enough for most uses. Accurate, quick and if you stick with PLA and 2" wide paper tape -cheap and easy to run! Happy to share more info if you like :)

WOw that was a nice print,

The ultimaker or Zortrax will be in our office it will be used by our student.

Thanks for your insight and suggestion buddy i'm also planning to buy a personal 3D-printer and ultimaker and zortrax are more than 250,000PHP, so i'm looking at lazada and ebay but i have doubts if this are good for a hobby. Thanks again for your info.

Is the filament are easy to obtain?

I couldn't find anything cheaper and I have found it great so far - as I said its far better than my HP DesignJet, BFB & Cube - also the online support is massive - everything you could possibly want - spare parts in CAD for you to build yourself, new software you can load, improvements and so on.

The two prints of the tap handle each took 30 mins each at 0.2mm resolution, using 3m (10g) of material. The machine can do more accurate but not tried a 0.1mm print yet as no need the sides are almost flat anyway!

Anet A8 and similar are also available as aluminium framed and in different sizes. Basically they are all the same with a few minor differences. It takes about 6 hours to build from the kit. if you do go for this then try and get the V2.0 control board and the better frame, belts, PSU - its worth it.

Any Qs or info please ask :)

Thanks for the info and recommendation buddy. does the Anet A8 support solidworks , inventor and fusion 360 or do i need a separate software to convert my model from solidworks, Inventor and fusion 360.

Thankyou,

You need a slicer sofware, basically you can use any cad software for designing which is capable of saving file to STL or OBJ format then transfer it to your slicer to convert to gcode which then can be read by your 3d printer. I use simplify 3d as slicer for my anet a8. There are many types of slicer out there,only tried one. Im still new to 3d printing.

Hi, bunschi sarmiento,

Thanks for your info.

The A8 I got came with Repetier Host and Server which both work really well. I like the ability to link the A8 to my machine through the server and get remote updates from it (as its in another room). I have now gone back to SD cards following an issue where certain apps force windows to re-enumerate the USB ports and that causes a refresh of the virtual network line in Repetier which makes the A8 reset mid print :( (I hate windows).

Repetier is good and consistent even using the stock firmware on the target. You can install Repetier firmware but as I am really happy with the way my printer is working then "if it isn't brokem don't fix it",

With Repetier you get a number of different Slicer options Cura, Skeinforge, Slic3r & Perusa. I like Cura myself as its simple and repeatable.

Visualisation is good, controlling what is printed and where is simple and its not let me down yet!!

Given its FREE I rate this app highly and better than Cura, Cubasis and a few others.

Hi again @Stark Jojo

How's it going?

Uhm.. I was just wondering. (like always)

Did you manage to get the printer?

Which one did you get?

Really curious to know 😊

If yes, would you mind sending some sample print's images? some video perhaps?

Cheers!

I'd love to publish this work of yours to our facebook and instagram fanpage @Nigel Eastwood 

I hope you don't mind 😊

Going to do so now anyhow. With acknowledgement of yourself of course.

Cheers!

Great to know that we have some 3D printer enthusiast here 😊

Would you mind sharing some work @bunschi sarmiento 

Thanks

Im still new to 3d printing but i have 2 designs here https://www.thingiverse.com/bunschi/about just for experiments.

Thanks 😊.

Got this published in the IG and FB fanpages.

Hi update about the 3D printer. We now settle in the Ultimaker 3 and it will be coming this october due to some money clearance. To learn about 3D printer i buy an anet 8 but so it is actually in my table but when i open the box i cannot find the instruction to build it i'm stuck is anybody has an instruction how to build it thanks.

Hi Stark JoJo,

I actually saw this post of yours 2 days ago and totally forgot to reply.

I've heard before that that unit/brand is really cheap compared to the others but is quite capable and is ideal for practicing with 3-D printing. Really nice :)

honestly, I do not have exp. in building 3-D printers from scratch since mine was already pre-built when I got it.

But if you still hadn't figured out the assembly, I think this video might assist you with it. (Please see link below)

https://youtu.be/nSdP-1c4WQI

and there's this closed group dedicated to Anet A8 owners where you might get the neccessary details.(Please see link below)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/372594423244984/

Hi I finished it i build it for half a day. here is my first 3D printed part its a fan nozzle i downloaded in thinkverse.com

Looking great. 👍

Quick question if I may though.

What is the purpose of that yellow sheet at the base of the 3-D printed object?

Does it have a purpose?

Hi it was actually like a masking tape it was put it there when they ship it so that the melted plastic will stick on it.

I see.

Because I myself just use glue to make the first layer stick to the build plate

and never knew that this type of adhesion is available.

Definitely going to try it when I have the chance.

Thanks for responding 👍

Yes Guys We finally bought brand new ultimaker from puzzle box i'm exciting to try and play with it. some pictures and videos will be coming.

that's really nice! 👍

Congratulations 👏👏

Please keep our members updated on your 3-D printing endeavors.

Do post about them here> https://grabcad.com/groups/grabcad-philippines/discussions/post-your-latest-project

or here> https://grabcad.com/groups/grabcad-philippines/discussions/post-your-latest-3-d-prints

Happy Printing! 😊