Anyone else trying to crawl back out the rabbit hole that is 3d printing? It's great don't get me wrong but it's so fucking annoying when it goes wrong

Yes, but I keep falling back in the rabbit hole with the hope things will work...

mine is primitive one and waiting a minor repeat ... and then the calibration. I might as well switch to resin ones

@We3D From what I have seen, a resin one is even more messy. You need a printer, an UV light/cure station, tons of cleaning alchohol.

Filament printers are somewhat eco-friendly (at least PLA is)

I see that there exists some plant based resins...

@Grumm mine is PLA only, but tiny. it's OneUp

@We3D I have an Ender 3 v2.

Descent volume (also PLA) But I struggle with the bed level every time.

Like I level the bed with paper, run BLT Touch. Print is good. I clean the bed and want to print something else and nope first layer doesn't stick, everything is messed up. So I have to level the bed after every single freaking print :/

I may consider getting a Voron one

@Grumm it's pain sometimes. after all calibrations before the little break I had just few good prints. And after the repair have to start the process almost from 0. I had printed a better cooler part at least that I can skip

@Grumm that sounds like z offset to me tbh mate, especially with bltouch. I get the same, I have to set the offset every time.

@DucksCanCode I tried most of the stuff I found online. Even did a Z-offset reset

I think the springs on the bed are crap. I haven't got the courage to get other ones. It is my first printer too so still learning a lot !!

Hmmm I want one. Which one do you guys recommend for a complete newbie?

@neriald If you can afford it, higher class of any type. it will still not be perfect, but teoretically it should be easier to operate with preconfigured from them almost everything. not used one of them yet, so I can't recommend a brand

@neriald It depends how committed you will be. What budget you have. Do you like tinkering with stuff ?

@Grumm I love tinkering, but I’d prefer if I didn’t have to too much. I’d like it to be not too small so I’m not too much restricted by the size. Budget can be managed but I don’t think I can get top of the line super luxury model so something modest but good is what I try to achieve most of the time.

@neriald You can go for a Bambu Lab one. They should work out of the box.

Next you have Creality. (I think the best choice now is to go for the NEO versions)

Prusa can be good too. But they require more tinkering.

Or go the resin route with the Photon Mono 4k. (Should be under $400 for the printer and the curing station)

@Grumm thank you very much kind sir ❤️

@neriald Still do some research first :)

Or ask an AI haha...

Find one affordable where you can find spare parts easily near your area.

@Grumm yeah ofc I will but this narrows down also for some reason I trust most of devrant users’ recommendations. So thanks =)