I received my printer tonight at around 8:30pm. I opened the box, followed the setup instructions and decided to do a quick test print. I downloaded a Dalek from Thingiverse and scaled it to one inch and hit Print. After unpack, setup, calibrating head height, loading and updating software, 15 minutes preheat and 22 minutes printing, the Dalek came off the printer at 10:15!
Some minor cleanup, and it’s done. First print, and it was … Amazingly easy!
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CNET Review – An Approachable, Powerful 3D Printer
Many thanks to Rich Brown of CNET for doing this review.
Here’s a summary:
The good: The Afinia H-Series 3D Printer (H479) strikes the right balance between ease of use and configurability. It also gets you printing faster than any other 3D printer we’ve tested so far.
The bad: The H479 has a smaller build platform than its competitors, some elements of its software are confusing, and your objects will need some post-print TLC to look their best.
The bottom line: No 3D printer is [Read more…]
Steve Norris: Making ‘Bots
Steve Norris of www.NorrisLabs.com loves to make ‘Bots, so much so that he produces one every two months, photographs and writes about them in his blog. (Editor’s Note: Steve has about 20 of them detailed on his site.). As a Contributing Editor at Robot Magazine, he is continually challenging the status quo to create things that have never been seen before.
Testimonial: Ellen Weaver: “Overall, A Lot Of Fun”
This was a Christmas present for my husband, but it has been a lot of fun for both of us. The quality of the prints is very good, definitely good enough for small things and sturdy enough to give most things to our toddler. I’m glad we waiting a couple years for the technology to mature, but this printer is pretty user friendly. The setup for the printer once we received it was pretty simple. The only things that needed tweaking from shipping were the platform leveling, and entering the values from the included calibration print file after we printed it. So far most of what we’ve done is print other peoples’ designs from Thingiverse, but we also make some cool stuff in SketchUp. You need a free plugin to export the files from sketchup to the afinia software, and I had to check the “unsolid model” in print preference so it didn’t do weird things with overlaps, but overall it wasn’t too hard. If I could add one feature, it would be a bigger build platform, but the flip side is that it’s a pretty small thing to fit on your desk, which is nice. Dualstrusion (to print in two colors a once) and faster production would be nice, but not a must have. The lack of an integrated display is no biggie for us, since we just leave it cabled to the computer and get the status from the software.
Reviewed by: Ellen Weaver from Denver, CO. on 1/10/2013
Testimonial: Kal Kaletsch: “Very Impressed!”
So far, I’m very pleased with the unit. It worked as I expected it would. Easy to use and good print quality. The software is better than expected. I like the way it builds its own base below the actual print. My 10 year old daughter imported a cat into sketchup. We exported it into an STL, using a free plugin and it printed perfectly, without any tweaking. I’m looking forward to using it for more serious jobs.
Reviewed by: Kai Kaletsch from Saskatoon, Canada. on 1/13/2013
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