[ML-General] 3D Printing

[david]

I considered the Dremel because I like their other tools.  The research 
I did online shows way more people dislike it than like it.  Amazon 
sells it too and is a good place to get a condensed version of the reviews.



On 05/07/15 01:34, Daniel Valdez wrote:
> Afaik that thing is proprietary and I haven't seen much about hacking 
> it to take custom firmware. Seems like there is a group of guys out 
> there working on it though
>
> If it's anything like some other printers it has an SD card hiding 
> somewhere. My da-Vinci has it inside the case and needs a slot cut out 
> to access it. Printers with embedded SD slots usually take .gcode 
> files with custom headers. So you can slice in whatever you want as 
> long as you insert the header that the machine is looking for.
>
> Do some searching. Looks to be a decent community out there for it.
>
> I know you didn't ask for this opinion but I'll offer it anyway 
> (apologies in advance):
> That printer is very over priced for its print area and print 
> material. If it's within return period I'd do so and invest in a 
> printerbot simple metal ($600) for better specs than the Dremel or ask 
> the group. I'm fond of my $500 da Vinci by xyz printing. If you or 
> your friend is stuck with the Dremel than definitely keep an eye out 
> for custom firmware.
>
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> On May 7, 2015, at 1:07 AM, WebDawg <webdawg at gmail.com 
> <mailto:webdawg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> I have to admit that I do not participate in 3D printing as much as I 
>> should right now but I had someone ask me about Simple3D.  They were 
>> interested in Simple3D mostly because of its method to create Raft 
>> and Supports/Skirt and Supports for objects.  I asked them to print 
>> me a complicated object and I have gotten hell for it ever since.  
>> They have some Dremel 3D printer that I just looked up.
>>
>> https://3dprinter.dremel.com/
>>
>> I asked them for the model number, but I do not have it yet.  Is this 
>> a clone of another popular printer that everyone uses or is it 
>> proprietary?
>>
>> What is the go to software to control these things in this current 
>> day?  They guy does not have much familiarity with Linux if that counts.
>>
>> Thanks ahead of time for the responses.
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