I don't have any personal experience but I've heard a lot of people tend to have major bed level issues due to the very banana shaped beds. Not sure of your price range, but the Ender 5 Plus may be better overall since coreXY (from my experience) is better at being able to compensate for warped beds.
TY for the advice but I really need a 300MM x 150mm work area, depth not a big concern maybe 150mm tall? these are mostly large signs. To be honest a slight bowing effect doesn't matter if its secured to a flat surface for the project.
The 5 Plus is not CoreXY, shaped like one, but not using CoreXY mechanics, just normal XY. The 5 Plus does move to dual leadscrews though.
The build volume on the Ender 5 Plus says it's 350x350x400, so it'd fit your size needs, but to your point it doesn't sound like it'd be strictly necessary. I imagine the Ender 3 Max Neo would be cheaper and if you don't have a need for any of the other features then I think it's a good option.
Oh damn, thanks for the correction. I've not actually owned one so I was mistaken. It's surprising to hear that your original Ender 3 is still holding up. Mine had major issues almost immediately that I couldn't fix and I gave up on it entirely, so anyone with the patience for those is a saint.
Once you overcome the initial learning curve they're pretty simple machines and easy to keep going.
I guess you can always get one of those small scales for cooking (or weed) and weigh each roll before you start using it (taking note of anything over 1KG and consider it the weight of the spool), then weigh it whenever you want to know how much you've got left.
Yeah the K2 Is a little crazy for what it claims. I am very skeptical however.
It's your average chinkery. I should fix my ender 3 after trying to mod it like a retard.
I am a certified lunatic and use Blender, which in my defense has import/export functionality with all the obscure filetypes that you can think to name, and the 25 more you can't.
I'm a retard and I only do functional prints and think in programmer terms. So I just use OpenSCAD.
My numerous failed attempts to learn FreeCAD or Fusion 360 just result in a migraine, but OpenSCAD just werks. you obviously can't accomplish as much as in an actual CAD software but making a snap fit enclosure or something very basic is ez.
That's what I'm finding. OnShape is much more user friendly then FreeCAD (and I have more then once used the app to edit my designs from my phone), but I would like a little more control over my designs. I mean there is literally nothing I'm planning to do that I don't want public, but being able to export to .scad would be nice. I might try and see if I can make sense of it, but I like being able to do stuff with a few clicks.
