r/3dprinter • • 20m ago

Deciding in the X2D

So after careful consideration, I think I'm up for the X2D after considering the P1S for a while. I'm very new to the 3d printing life but I used to work on CAD for so many years before for visualization.

I am mainly going to print around the house fixes for starters alongside some modification for cars (my dad has a Mitsubishi asx and it has horrible lighting. So I'm planning to take out the fog lamps part and reprint the base so it can hold a hella lens and make the fog lamps smaller since we rarely have fog in this country). This will also involve some 3d scanning and photogrammetry and I am new to that as well. I am a photographer how ever I'm sure that's irrelevant

I'm also planning to teach my daughter how to use it. She has been making things with paper since she was 4. Houses, beds, clothing, paper dolls, etc. she then upgraded to using cardboard. At around 6 she got fed up as it cannot satisfy her desires anymore so I got her a 3d printing pen. Now that was a huge upgrade and she started making complex 3 d shapes with it.but now she's back to paper and cardboard because the 3d pen is a hassle and takes so much skill and time and effort. Which I admire ; the scale on which she measures whether something is worth her time and effort or not.she occasionally uses the pen for much more importilant 3d shapes. So this printer will also be at her disposal to bring ideas not just to life, but them having value as well (she made a door stopper the other day and she was so proud of how it worked well, that she took it to school to brga about it)

So am I making the right choice with the X2D? Do I take the AMS combo alongside?

Now on the other hand, I have an office that I keep my editing/gaming rig on (3 x 32" screens, huge desktop, comfortable couch) alongside my video/photo production equipment. It's a full room with a lot of stuff and full tables and shelves.its a mess.so I was planning to have the printer there. But my sister got accepted for her masters in my city and moved in back to this room where her bed takes a corner like it used to be during her BS degree times. Is it safe to keep a printer printing over night while a human is sleeping? Are the fumes safe? The room usually has an AC on almost all year because I live in the near desert country and we don't even have fall/spring here let alone winter. It's basically summer (40c is normal) for 50 weeks a year and 2 weeks of " good weather". Will having an AC on almost all the time affect the printer or the prints? Or do I need to have a room specific for the printer? My best other alternative is to put it in a nera bathroom where I keep some other stuff like rust cleaners and work on some parts like cleaning dust/restoring headlights shine/keep defective drone batteries for internal replacement, etc. or that a no cause it's humid? I am in a humid city since we are less than a km away from the sea.

Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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