3D Printing Today #607

[3D Printing Tips and Tricks]

News: 

Snapmaker Launches U1 Toolchanger for $849

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/snapmaker-u1-launches-on-april-10-now-pre-order-at-849-249864/

Segments: 

Seam Position, Controlling over extrusion, Color Exploration

Thing of the Week: 

Soldering helping hand/third hand

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7295097

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[Bryan Eckert]

FYI MicroCenter now stocks the U1, $950, which I believe is the same price it will increase to on April 10th buying from SnapMaker directly.

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[LukeH]

Looking at the Snapmaker web site, it seems that the price is only going up to $899 on April 10. I guess though, if you buy from a physical Microcenter store you aren't paying shipping, so that works out about the same.

I would think the competition is starting to build. I'm sure that $950 plus shipping seemed like a good price when the only competitors were a $3K Prusa XL, a $2K Bambu H2C, and the upcoming Prusa One INDX, which is surely going to be probably close to $2K. Now there is a four tool, tool changer competitor in the Flashforge Creator 5 which is around the same price (the Creator 5 will be cheaper, and the Creator 5 Pro will likely be more expensive), that math might have changed. People will certainly be closely comparing features, and considering more closely bang for buck.

[Lee Foulkes]

Got mine here in the UK from Prima3D. £799. Which would be $1056 at todays exchange.

[Kyle Wendt]

One thing I think you missed during the recent episode was scarf joints in the seams.  Enabling scarf joints almost makes my seam vanish and makes post processing much easier.  I know this setting exists in Orca Slicer and Bambu Studio, not sure if it made it back to Prusa Slicer yet.