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I know you could spend 50% more and get a better one, but this is probably one of the best budget printers at around $200
Voxelab Aquila Pro $208.79 Delivered @ Flashforge 3D Printer eBay
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Yeah, Aquila X2 was my first printer. Got me totally hooked, took about 6-9 months to upgrade to a qidi x-plus 3, which is just awesome in comparison.
The Aquila is still quite capable though, I still use it when the qidi is busy doing something else.
this or
Creality CR-6 SE?I don't know enough about printers to answer. Perhaps the creality is worth the extra. Maybe someone with more knowledge can comment
Like all Voxelab products, it's a clone
This one is a clone of the CR-6 SE.thanks for the answer, does looks very similar, but i guess will save the 45$ and go for this one
Sovol sv06 with discount code. Mine prints ridiculously well out of the box.
If you believe you are going to do alot of printing and something you will focus on. Go straight to a Bambu X1. Out of the box without issues printing alot faster and cleaner and any budget FDM could
for 10x more price? we get your point, but ppl interested in this is not gonna spend 10x more accidentally
Surely you're joking
I went from an OG Voxelab Aquila to a Bambu P1S. 3D printing tech has come a LONG way in the last few years, hell, the last year even. I didn't think i'd ever need a 3D printer and didn't see the value, but when OzB had the original Aquila for $150 delivered, I figured i'd dip my toe.
Now, in the end I didn't use it all that much as it was slow, the requirements to get things levelled to print well and all of that just meant I lost interest before I could ever really get to the proper tinker phase. Eventually I decided there was bits and bobs that I needed to make and so I'd just save my pennies and get the P1S. I have no regrets on that at all. That said, we are talking 5x the price, so it's hardly comparing apples with apples.
At this stage if I was thinking about 3D printing but didn't want to drop a grand, i'd probably still think this was a good deal. But my advice would be there there are a pretty good crop of open frame printers printers from the likes of Creality, Sovol etc which have been recently released, which will print much faster than this, but probably looking in that $500 price point. If you intend to make your own things and will want to prototype and iterate, you'll want something faster. If you just want to grab little bits and bobs from Thingiverse etc. and dip your toe into 3D printing without much outlay, then sure, give this a look.All that said…. There is still almost no way you can honestly tell someone to skip from a $200 printer and go direct to an X1 instead. Great machines no doubt, but i'd put the P1series ahead of X1 as a recommendation to a total beginner.
Is there much difference between P1 and X1
Price is great considering inflation.
Recently bought the Bambu Lab A1 mini as my first printer. All the printer maintenance put me off buying a printer in the past, but it seems like the A1 mini was a good call for me. Zero issues so far with maybe 100 hours of printing.
This was my first 3D printer. I've since upgraded to another model for faster output and auto labelling but it's a great device at this price, no regrets.
this has auto level yes?
Ah yes, it looks like a couple of features have been added since my version a few years back. Excellent value then!
I’d maybe compare this with an anycubic kobra model and see which one comes out on top review wise. I had an Aquila and I gave it away and swapped to a Kobra ?2? I think, and it’s far less fiddly especially with auto levelling and staying level, and get far fewer failed prints with way less tinkering. The Aquila was also stupidly noisy even after swapping out some of the fans.
The model before this was my first FDM printer. I was originally using a good SLA printer. This was just a gateway to bigger and better FDM printers and for me hooked.
This is quite a capable printer and a great price. Jump in!