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well, its better much better than my qidi 4 plus with its faulty box!

wow, you guys do really have a lot of machines and different technologies! I'm eager to know your business story as myself Im developing a printing business and planning on buying a sls machine

Wanted to share a real-world example of 3D printing actually making a difference — not just in a lab, but in the market. I came across this while reading The 3D Printing Handbook: Technologies, design and applications, and it really stuck with me. The Rehook project. Their goal was straightforward: bring a bicycle chain reattachment tool to market. The catch? They had under €5,000 to do it. Using 3D printing they managed to develop the product, test it with real customers, and launch it — all in about 10 weeks. That kind of timeline would of been nearly impossible with traditional manufacturing. Tooling alone would've eaten most of that budget before they even knew if anyone wanted the thing. And it worked. Within 12 months from starting the design, they sold several thousand units. I think what's easy to overlook here isn't just the cost saving — its the ability to fail fast and cheap before committing to anything. That's were 3D printing really changes the game for small teams. If you want to dig deeper, the book also has a lot more calculations and charts on this — I've dropped a link for anyone interested. Factor 3D Printing Injection Molding Initial Cost ~ €520 ~ €8,200 (with mold) Production Time ~ 10 days ~ 110 days total Flexibility Very high Low (fixed mold) Best For Small–medium runs Large-scale production Design Changes Easy & fast Expensive & slow <img src=""

Pretty impressed with the choice of test models included. Could not stop printing one after another. Might give some clues on how to slice my own models. Featured models: Snapmaker, Lucky13toys, JINQITOYS

Hi Mark, 1400 hours is quite a run already. Good to hear you’re getting great prints out of it. Hopefully, the replacement parts sort things out long term. As far as I know, Will had this machine for evaluation, but I’m not sure if he continued using it beyond testing. It would be interesting to hear how others are getting on with it, too.

I both designed and printed some models for easter. Mine are a little bit simpler than others, but they came out well and as expected: These first 3 are my designs: Layered Egg Fidget: Articulated Twist Open Egg Containers: I made a mistake while modeling them. The left hand is backwards as you can see on the picture. Since then i updated the design and the issue is fixed. Simple Twist Open Egg (Original version): This was my first time modeling threads for 3D printing. They came out acceptable. The smallest one can slip but still holds the egg together securely. Other sizes are fine. Twisty Dragon Egg Fidget: (This design is not mine) I also made a showcase video for this to enter Snapmaker's easter giveaway: https://x.com/Marcidy_3D/status/2037489182990385450 (The theme might be familiar to some people :D) Happy Easter!

I've put almost 1400 hours on my AD5X since November. I've had some great prints off of it and really like the machine...but I've also had 4 different tech tickets open that resulted in replacement parts. How has your experience been?

Congratulations! 🎉 This post won 2 filament spools in the Contribute to Win - March 2026 giveaway. We will contact you shortly to arrange the delivery of two SUNLU filament spools. Giveaway Rules: https://3dwithus.com/forum/topic/973-contribute-to-win-monthly-giveaway

Congratulations! 🎉 This thread has won two filament spools in the Contribute to Win - March 2026 giveaway. We will contact you shortly to arrange the delivery of two SUNLU filament spools. Giveaway Rules: https://3dwithus.com/forum/topic/973-contribute-to-win-monthly-giveaway

🎉 March Giveaway Completed — April Giveaway Is On The Way! Huge thanks to our forum supporters! We're excited to award our filament prize to forum contributors 🙌 🏆 Winning contributions: EIBOS Filament Dryer Issue & Support Response: https://3dwithus.com/forum/topic/1006-eibos-filament-dryer-disaster/#comment-1196 Guide-Inspired Print & Feedback: https://3dwithus.com/forum/topic/1005-how-to-design-text-flips-discussion/#findComment-1194 Two SUNLU filament spools are now on their way 🎁 What's Next✅ The April giveaway is live ✅ SUNLU filament spools will be awarded to 1–4 contributors whose posts or comments add the most value to the community and forum. ✅ All helpful & creative contributions count Share your projects, tips, questions, fails & wins. Every contribution helps grow the community and puts you in the running. If you were considering posting but haven’t jumped in yet, this is the perfect time to start. Sign Up Here https://3dwithus.com/forum/register/

What is scarier than a DeathRacer? A Battle Hardened DeathRacer! This one became a real hero across a few guides and made it onto Sketchfab. EinstarOfficial Rockit did a great job capturing the punches and bruises on this beast. Hands-on: https://3dwithus.com/einstar-rockit-3d-scanner-review

Updated Guide: Easter 3D Print Ideas https://3dwithus.com/easter-3d-print-ideas-and-gifts-decorative-and-functional Featured: Bugman_140, 3DPrintBunny, KOZADesign, davemakesstuff_, realNUKDDD and others.

Update: Here is the reply from the Elegoo representative: Thanks for forwarding this question. I asked the sales team, who told me this is not for sale at the moment. You may tell users to contact support here: https://www.elegoo.com/pages/contact-support

Hi Henry, Here is Kris from EIBOS Team, First of all, we apologize for the inconvenience it caused. Please send us a email to [email protected] with your order number. I will make sure everything goes to the right path. Thank you for choosing EIBOS, Kind regards, EIBOS Team

Thank you very much for your really kind words and support. I sincerely appreciate it. I am really happy to hear the tutorial was easy to follow, and I hope it helps you design your own text-flips. Your print and photos are great, and I am really sorry about the supports; they are unfortunately a byproduct of this type of design and this model especially.

Really cool! The tutorial is great as well and easy to follow. I downloaded one of your models to try it out. It came out great. The supports were a little bit inconvenient to remove, but i managed. Thanks!

Hi Henry, thank you for sharing your experience. That does sound frustrating, especially with both assembly issues and the broken acrylic part. I will ask my EiBOS contact about it and see whether a replacement part or another solution is available.

I tried assembling my exciting new purchase, a Series X Tetras filament dryer . It is an upgrade kit for my AMS 2 Pro that came with my bamboo H2 C printer. It allows individual temperature settings for each of the four spool bays and is compatible with in-use conditions so you can print and dry with four different spools simultaneously! However, I am stymied at two different points in the assembly and product integration with my existing bamboo AMS. The first issue, which is more of an annoyance than a showstopper, there are four new pedestal feet that mount to the underside of my existing AMS 2 Pro. There are supposed to be pre-existing mounting holes in the bottom of the unit to attach these feet onto. I sent in a service ticket to bamboo labs about the lack of mounting holes. They were surprisingly aloof and acted like they had never heard of the AMS two pro upgrade kit by EIBOS. Again,Not a big deal, but irritating. The real showstopper is the internal integration of the upgrade kit into the main body of the AMS two pro. There are four rough, poorly machined clear acrylic baffles that mount in back of the filament guide entrance, call the filament pedestal. a black plastic bracket snaps into it from the front side of the filament pedestals. This step has two flaws. The thin acrylic baffles which you would normally injection mold were shaped by machining. A large slot nearly bisects the acrylic baffle, and where the slot ends was left completely sharp, no attempt at a fillet or radius at the deep end of the slot. Acrylic is very brittle and so they created a stress concentration point that makes the part maybe 1/4 as strong as it would be if they had a radius at the bottom of the slot. one of the four parts broke exactly at that location, because both the acrylic baffle, and the black plastic shroud that attaches to it won't fit around the filament pedestal, as it's about 1 mm wider than the parts they supplied. All in all I'm quite disappointed that I've had both of these issues coupled with cheap manufacturing and additionally I've not heard back from their customer service regarding the issues. It will be sent back tomorrow if I don't hear from them. I really wanted this system to work like the enthusiastic reviews that I read. Has anybody else had assembly and integration issues like this?

Learn more about Text-Flips and how to design them. https://3dwithus.com/text-flips-how-to-design-and-3d-print-your-own If you printed or designed text-flips, do not hesitate to share them with us here or in a new thread.

New PollyFab 3D printed shoes just arrived. Unfortunately, our Chief Inspector Teddy is currently on light duty after surgery… but still insisted on supervising the unboxing 🐶 These are Airpuff One Pro (Orange) and Airpuff One.

Thanks! Great work, the way you aligned the music is spot on. I wish you were on socials, I would tag you there too 🙂 Really appreciate you sharing this, I am sure SUNLU (and Anycubic) will love it. You can now find your video across the 3DWithUs socials. Here is the YouTube Short as an example:

Yes, it is a native, Kobra S1 time-lapse video. The inbuilt camera is not the best in terms of quality, but speeding up the timelapse (30s -> 5s) makes it look a little bit better (Also cut it to match the 9:16 aspect ratio of my phone). I didn't share it on socials, so feel free to do so if you like :)

Nice video. Time-lapse is very clean. Is it an Anycubic Kobra S1 native time-lapse video? Did you share this video on socials? Can I share it on 3DWithUs (https://linktr.ee/3DWithUs) social media channels?

Made another vase as well. I wanted to use this video for a giveaway submission, but later realised it needs easter themed designs. So i edited it a little and I am uploading it here. 0315.mp4 Sources: 3D Model: Scaled to 250mm tall (Only Z-Axis Scale) Filament: SUNLU dual-color Orange+Red Matte Video Editor Background Music Thank you again SUNLU and 3DWithUs!

The dual color indeed looks cool! Printed some pen holders with it. The models are not mine: https://www.printables.com/model/108872-pen-holder https://www.printables.com/model/198641-hex-vase-cup