So I am not unaware of their capabilities but also aware of the amount of work needed to turn out accurate and reliable components. Their idea of a cheap entry level 3D printer is about $5000 and they go up into the $100,000 bracket or more. I work at a company that sells serious 3D printers to jewellers, prototyping manufacturers etc and is expanding the business market in that area considerably with industrial quality units. Hence my question, I was actually trying to justify buying one.īit of a rider here. With a 90 x 90 x 90 work space and what looks to be quite a solid frame setup it looks to be capable of creating something useful but I can't think of anything specific to my requirements. The parts I need making need to be very rigid so metal is normally the only answer We have a serious colour printer ( Photo quality ) at home as well which gets minimal use. I have a Lathe\Mill downstairs and confess I haven't used it as much as I expected to. I guess I'm being rather practical about it all.
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The other factor is whether I'd be capable of learning the 3D modelling software enough to make real use of it. I'd quite like one to play with but still not sure what I'd specifically use it to make. Heck Sil, no argument, I'm not seeing junk and I'm not complaining. Hope I can say the same in 6 months time. I can't recommend this highly enough for anyone looking at getting a 3D printer. I bought directly from the Cetus website, chose the Australian model and it came from an Aussie location, correct power supply etc.
The Cetus may not look like much but when you feel the well machined and oils rails this just feels like something more at home in a machinists shop than something sitting on a milk crate on the loungeroom floor where mine is. Was well worth getting and and I am so happy, way more than when I got my first cocoon which worked but only barely and needed constant care and attention. Btw this is a tethered printer doesn't have a card slot but its supposed to have wifi and ios app but i havent tried that out.Īll in all this is what an entry level 3D printer should be, dead easy to use and more prints less waste. Haven't used Simplif圓D yet just the Cetus software. I get a tiny bit of stringing so the default temp is a little high for the cocoon filament and I'll play with setting to fix that this week. Print quality with its standard Normal setting and pre-installed 0.4mm nozzle its better than I could ever get from my Cocoon create even after months of tweaking and testing.
Really not a big deal, worst case you damage a nozzle, just unscrew and replace buying replacements is easy. Its something I knew from reading reviews and as I wasn't powering off it hasn't been any problem for me to place a piece of packing foam on the printer next to the bed to catch it anyway in case it fell (I'm designing an addon I can print to catch it too if I forget the foam).
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The Cetus is compact but solid, the plate is unheated but printing with raft everything I've done so far is perfect and easy to remove and easy to stick to its bed.Ĭalibration is easy via software instead of tiny hard to reach screws, there are no essential mods you need to do first it will work fine out of the box.That said its X arm doesnt lock to the vertical Z rail when power is off and being heavy can drop easily landing on the print bed with the end of the nozzle. The Cetus on default settings has been printing around the clock all weekend just fine with my old cocoon filament (every Cetus owner says the same, its very tolerant of any brand of PLA filaments) the cocoon needed constant fine tuning to get its own filament printing and I never got it to print any other brand successfully. For someone with only one working arm this is very easy.
The Cetus just bloody well works and maintaining will be easy and minimal, changing nozzles or removing to unclog (if it does) is dead easy and it comes with three nozzles sizes so theres no dodgy feeder to get jammed, or heat blocks and fans to remove to service like the Cocoon Create. I also have a delta printer that came doa and never printed and the first Aldi printer which was temperamental to use and very difficult to maintain (high maintenance needed). Its a very well engineered product with well machined metal rails. Just bought a Cetus 3d Extended Mk II 3D printer (US$399) arived in four days, goes together just fine.
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