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3D Printer Comparison: $200,000 vs. $2500

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Re: 3D Printer Comparison: $200,000 vs. $2500

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"The Stratasys printed part was printed with ABS material, 100% infill with a standard layer height on normal detail settings. Not having direct access to the machine I was not able to extract any real nitty gritty details on the overall print set up. For the Lulzbot print that I created I used HIPS material with a 0.5mm nozzle, 0.1mm layer height, 25% infill, 4 top and bottom solid layers, 45 mm/s print speed with s…

I had some of the same questions...my suspicion is basically two fold 1) the infill change may have been intended to make the print times comparable (he suggested both were about 18 hrs) 2) He may have been attempting to compare the default (or default-ish) settings of each machine

Hi, I wrote this article. To answer your suspicions.

1) Realistically they are within an hour of each other regardless of infill so the total print time was negligible in this experiment. A few changes on both machines could make either or print much faster. 2) Yes, it was my intention to have the same layer heights and overall print settings as close to each other as I could.

Re: 3D Printer Comparison: $200,000 vs. $2500

#102
"The Stratasys machine uses a separate dissolvable support material that can be washed away with a special salt water solution."

This can be achieved with dual extruder models Makerbot 2X or its FlashForge clone, under $2500.

Use HIPS as the support material, print in ABS and dissolve HIPS in d-limonene.

Re: 3D Printer Comparison: $200,000 vs. $2500

#104
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had some of the same questions...my suspicion is basically two fold 1) the infill change may have been intended to make the print times comparable (he suggested both were about 18 hrs) 2) He may have been attempting to compare the default (or default-ish) settings of each machine

Hi, I wrote this article. To answer your suspicions. 1) Realistically they are within an hour of each other regardless of infill so the total print time was negligible in this experiment. A few changes on both machines could make either or print much faster. 2) Yes, it was my intention to have the same layer heights and overall print settings as close to each other as I could.

Thanks for the information
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