Ask HN: Which 3D Printer for Product Design Prototyping in 2019?

Re:Ask HN: Which 3D Printer for Product Design Prototyping i... by jononor on Sunday February 03, 2019 @04:40PM (#19072408)

A whole makerspace and you want to get one 3d-printer? That will prevent someone from using it most of the time, printing is slow. And whenever you have a tiny issue, you have 0 machining capability until it is fixed.

I recommend to get 3-6 of an affordable printer instead. For example Original Prusa if you can afford it, else Ender 3. This way you can have long production jobs, quick experimentation and teaching someone new to use the printers at the same time. And you can keep one set of spares shared for all your machines.

If you have money left over, start saving for a small CNC and a CO2 laser.

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Re:Ask HN: Which 3D Printer for Product Design Prototyping i... by nelsonic on Monday February 04, 2019 @04:17AM (#19074964)

Thanks for helping to clarify the question. ;-) When I ask “which printer” I should have clarified that if many people end up using it (and it’s a bottleneck) we will buy several identical printers.

We are currently considering the Original Prusa i3 MK3 as it’s been suggested by a few people (thanks for adding your “vote”). https://github.com/dwyl/home/issues/37#issuecomment-45999341...

As for other equipment, we already have a reasonably complete set of high quality hand/power tools and a Maslow CNC.

We will be opening a separate question on “Which CO2 Laser?” very shortly. (Thanks!)

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Re:Ask HN: Which 3D Printer for Product Design Prototyping i... by jononor on Sunday February 03, 2019 @04:43PM (#19072421)

Oh, and if someone wants to do a small run of prototypes they can use 6 machines at the same time. Which is 4x faster than what an single expensive machine can do.

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