Z18 accessories, wow!

[Richard]

I was just surfing the Makerbot website trying to find an easy way to get to my open case vs open a new one and this caught my eye.

I see an opportunity for some enterprising folks.  Seems a bit overpriced to me.  I wonder if you could print a spoolholder for a 10 lb spool on the Z18.  The spool holder includes one ten pound spool of filament. So I guess it is actually costing your about $250 net, but still seems pretty high though it does have a cool see through window that you can watch your spool unwind through.

The set up does look nice, but man is that pricey, especially the metal cabinet.  I think I might buy a black dorm fridge, a dolly with wheels and print off http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10849 and glue it on.  I need to head off to the container store for a 10lb filament container that has room for a slot in the top.

The interesting thing in all this is that the picture shows the filament feeding into the top of the machine vs from the bottom filament tray...interesting.

[Joseph Chiu]

I wonder how that looks next to a Dimension on a cart...

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[AL M]

For a filament case at that price is it also a dehumidifier ?

[Jimc]

huh, the cabinet looks like a mini fridge. you can pick up one of those and a set of casters for it for about $150. you can also keep a beer in it to drink while your waiting for you model to print. lol. makerbots stuff always looks real nice but when it comes to their pricing they do have one thing........balls!

[Ryan Carlyle]

Remember, you're not just paying for a box and a cart, you're paying for access to Stratasys's patents regarding filament dryboxes and FDM printer handling & workflows.

Whether those (broad and fairly obvious) patents should be valid is questionable, but who's got the lawyers to fight it?

[Jimc]

hmm i would be curious to see what that filament box was actually. i could be wrong for sure but i bet it doesnt have a dehumidifier built into it. i bet its just a plastic box that holds your spool.  i can also bet there is nothing in the cabinet and its nothing more than a simple metal stand. again i could be wrong and am taking a wild guess.

[Ryan Carlyle]

Yeah, it's probably nothing fancy and it's probably overpriced as hell. Won't know until MBI releases more info or somebody buys one.

I think just putting the filament in a box with desiccant, and then routing the filament through an enclosed pathway, is technically patented. Which doesn't stop you from making a drybox from Container Store parts, but it does stop a lot of people from selling knock-offs.

[Dana Seero]

We buy an aluminum wheeled tool cart at Sears for about $350 for the uPrint systems. You can also buy steel tool tables in different heights from McMaster.

A lot of businesses like to put their 3DP in the public eye, so having a matching cart is desirable.

After you have a six or eight day build fail at about 90% completion, that $750 won't seem very expensive.....

[Dana Seero]

"Remember, you're not just paying for a box and a cart, you're paying for access to Stratasys's patents regarding filament dryboxes and FDM printer handling & workflows. Whether those (broad and fairly obvious) patents should be valid is questionable, but who's got the lawyers to fight it?"

Hewlett Packard spends more on R&D per year than the combined revenues of 3DS and Stratasys. And their CEO has stated their interest in the market, and they in fact had a marketing agreement with Stratasys for 18 months. Or it might be that some of the world's most admired manufacturers respect intellectual property rights.

"Cloning ain't Cool."

[Dan Newman]

On 27/03/2014, 10:06 AM, Dana Seero wrote:
> We buy an aluminum wheeled tool cart at Sears for about $350 for the uPrint systems.

And if you have any of the old, round "MakerBot Industries" stickers which they used to include with
all purchases, you can even slap on official Makerbot branding!

Dan

[Brian33433]

And if you have any of the old, round "MakerBot Industries" stickers which they used to include with 
all purchases, you can even slap on official Makerbot branding! 

Or just 3d print a badge and gorilla glue it on and use the leftover cash to buy a new printer :)

B.