Hello, I am looking to buy my first filament 3D printer. Any printer or printer brand you recommend and why? What 3D modeling software is usually used to design? Any tips are welcome! (my budget would be 200-300€) I would like to eventually get into resin printing as well.
I went with a Prusa Mini and I can recommend the brand albeit at a higher price point.
From what I’ve heard from others the main pitfall for someone staring out is not getting an auto-bed levelling sensor.
For slicing Prusa slicer is fantastic and you can get profiles for many printers.
For print monitoring OctoPrint and OctoApp are my go to.
Thanks for the response! Could you tell me more about what print monitoring is?
We’ll, I suppose control and monitoring.
It’s a little server with a web ui (I run one on a raspberrypi) that you can load you gcode files and start prints from your pc or phone.
Then you can keep an eye on the progress of your print with percent completion, time elaspsed/remaining, a gcode viewer and live camera feed.
My current print:
That’s interesting