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Planning to buy my first 3D printer!

ABC9515
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Hey everyone! Hoping to get some insights here

Budget - $450 USD (36,000 INR)
Country - India
Experience - Complete beginner to 3D printing, but very much comfortable with DIY and electronics. Have experience with wood working, plumbing, most stuff around the house.
Assembly - A DIY kit is okay
Usage - Mostly to build enclosures for my electrical projects. All hobby level. Some DIY quick fixes around the house, not into printing miniatures or action figures or even halloween stuff.

Special notes - There arent a lot of 3D printing suppliers in India, 2 reputable sources are wol3d.in and robu.in I have used Robu services before to buy electronic parts and the experience has been good.

If I set the filter to my budget range these are the options that I have

Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro - $335.73 USD

Creality CR-10 SE 3D Printer - $379.88 USD

Creality ENDER 3 V3 KE - $359.74 USD

Creality Ender-3 S1 3D Printer - $371.74 USD

Any help on this would be really appreciated. I can't wait to print my first Benchy guys!

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bambu på a1 mini? At least where I am it is about €450 and would smash all those printers to bits in performance and user experience.

 

I would not get an ender 3 or any other printer with V rollers today

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BambuLab A1 mini.

Without the AMS it is $280.

The Declaration of Independence, once the charter of democracy, begins by saying that certain things are self-evident. If we were to trace the history of the American mind from Thomas Jefferson to William James, we should find that fewer and fewer things were self-evident, until at last hardly anything is self-evident. (G. K. Chesterton - Aug. 14 1926 (The Illustrated London News))

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The A1 mini is great due to it's compact size, linear rail and low price. At $575 it is a don't buy.

 

I have been out of the loop for these budget printers. All I know is that the one with linear rods and input shaping/klipper isn't trash.  I think this was the Ender 3 V3 KE but don't quote me on this. Creality naming is confusing at best.

Personally I haven't used any of those Elegoo/Creality on that list.

The Declaration of Independence, once the charter of democracy, begins by saying that certain things are self-evident. If we were to trace the history of the American mind from Thomas Jefferson to William James, we should find that fewer and fewer things were self-evident, until at last hardly anything is self-evident. (G. K. Chesterton - Aug. 14 1926 (The Illustrated London News))

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On 5/4/2024 at 7:10 AM, ABC9515 said:

Hey everyone! Hoping to get some insights here

Budget - $450 USD (36,000 INR)
Country - India
Experience - Complete beginner to 3D printing, but very much comfortable with DIY and electronics. Have experience with wood working, plumbing, most stuff around the house.
Assembly - A DIY kit is okay
Usage - Mostly to build enclosures for my electrical projects. All hobby level. Some DIY quick fixes around the house, not into printing miniatures or action figures or even halloween stuff.

Special notes - There arent a lot of 3D printing suppliers in India, 2 reputable sources are wol3d.in and robu.in I have used Robu services before to buy electronic parts and the experience has been good.

If I set the filter to my budget range these are the options that I have

Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro - $335.73 USD

Creality CR-10 SE 3D Printer - $379.88 USD

Creality ENDER 3 V3 KE - $359.74 USD

Creality Ender-3 S1 3D Printer - $371.74 USD

Any help on this would be really appreciated. I can't wait to print my first Benchy guys!

Maybe consider the new Ender 3 V3. Would also smash any of the above printers. 

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