Ender-3D V3 SE worth a look?

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Where to begin?
Thinking I may treat myself to a 3D Printer, probably between now and Xmas. So knowing nothing where do you begin? I've followed a few "beginners" vids on YouTube and the performance vs price-point for the V3SE looks reasonable at sub £190. Any feedback on that printer would be much appreciated. However "knowing nothing" about the subject are there any good forums/resources that are worth looking at first?

I guess first question would be. What software (preferably free) are people using to generate their 3D models?

Cheers
 
From what I’ve seen it looks like a great first 3D Printer for someone who just wants to print and not tinker, but with a caveat. From what I’ve seen the print bed is crap and getting a texture PEI sheet for it would be a must for me.
 
DampDog said:
Where to begin?
Thinking I may treat myself to a 3D Printer, probably between now and Xmas. So knowing nothing where do you begin? I've followed a few "beginners" vids on YouTube and the performance vs price-point for the V3SE looks reasonable at sub £190. Any feedback on that printer would be much appreciated. However "knowing nothing" about the subject are there any good forums/resources that are worth looking at first?

I guess first question would be. What software (preferably free) are people using to generate their 3D models?

Cheers
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for designing things I would use tinkercad or shaper3d

for a printer it depends what you want, something to tinker with or something that just works.
 
ElliorR said:
From what I’ve seen it looks like a great first 3D Printer for someone who just wants to print and not tinker, but with a caveat. From what I’ve seen the print bed is crap and getting a texture PEI sheet for it would be a must for me.
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Cheers. I'd picked up on the print bed sheet being less than ideal.

VeNT said:
for designing things I would use tinkercad or shaper3d

for a printer it depends what you want, something to tinker with or something that just works.
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I don't mind something that needs a little bit of finessing to get the best out of it. But I don't want to trawl through dozens of setting just to get a halfway decent output either. It will be a plaything rather than a design/work tool. Ender series do appear to be one of the better supported manufacturers, with either off the shelf bits or community generated add-ons to make like easier. There are better out of the box printers but they quickly start to climb in cost. I was looking at sketch-up. It's easy to get into, just not sure how well it is suited to generating 3D print file format.
 
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DampDog said:
Cheers. I'd picked up on the print bed sheet being less than ideal.


I don't mind something that needs a little bit of finessing to get the best out of it. But I don't want to trawl through dozens of setting just to get a halfway decent output either. It will be a plaything rather than a design/work tool. Ender series do appear to be one of the better supported manufacturers, with either off the shelf bits or community generated add-ons to make like easier. There are better out of the box printers but they quickly start to climb in cost. I was looking at sketch-up. It's easy to get into, just not sure how well it is suited to generating 3D print file format.
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I'd check for a second hand ender 3 should be super cheap (there's one locally to me going for £90), though I'd say that an ender 5 has a higher speed and quality ceiling.
 
Well...
I thought there is little if any point diving in and choosing a printer if I've not even tried to either pinch or modify a 3D model. Better still generate one from scratch. Being tight I want to spend as little as possible in the process. I've had a look at FreeCad and while it looks powerful the learning curve for a novice feels very steep. I happened on a YouTube tutorial that mentioned OnShape. I signed up to the free version and I find the interface reasonably straightforward. (so far) Downside is, all the models a stored in a public cloud server. It's browser based which I expected to be pish, but it works really well. Just need to invent a do-hickey and model it now.
 
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