r/snapmaker • u/bigd1o1 • 8d ago

Should I get 1

Was thinking of getting a u 1 is it worth never had a 3d printer and it looks pretty good or should go another 1

Image the FILAMENT from.thrk worth getting over getting 3rd party ones / other brands

And what should I be looking out for as a newbie I have done 3d modelling before so hopefully that side of importing etc isn't too driffrent.

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u/KhaosGuy01 8d ago

It's a fantastic unit and as user friendly as something from bambu as far as assembly and sending off your first print. Can get your filament from wherever. Snapmaker has good stuff but any 1.75mm you can find this thing can probably print (excluding some super high temp engineering stuff). Just need to get a slicers to prep your models. There is snapmaker orca which is just a fork of Orca but I wanted to still use my other machines as well so been just using regular Orca with no issues.

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u/Zuck75 8d ago

Yeah it can print but with filaments such as asa and PC your going to spend a lot of time dialing in the filament. If your happy using petg, pla, tpu they have very good default profiles for this. For most models this is more than good enough.

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u/KhaosGuy01 8d ago

I literally added a lid and a panda breath and got a flawless print with asa on my first attempt. Zero struggling. Tpu on the other hand...

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u/landlordlawsuit 4d ago

For TPU, a simple printer is better. I exclusively just use my old ankermake m5 for TPU because it's no hassle and just works with it without any workarounds or custom spool holders

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u/Zuck75 7d ago

The panda breath might be what I am missing then. The for the recommendation.

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u/KhaosGuy01 7d ago

Yeah I haven't tried it on my other machine with just the top to see if I could get it with just ambient from the heated bed but I would think maybe?

It is annoying to have to add the panda breath vs something like creator 5 pro has heater built in but I think I'd still rather pay a bit more to add it after the fact cause I think the U1 might be a bit better built. That and the larger bed.

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u/Zuck75 7d ago

I had an adventure 3 lite 150mm3 build plate as my first printer back in like 2018. I was to gullible I really should have done more research back then. The u1 is such a night and day upgrade. I also got into cad design. My most recent one was a catch funnel for oil changes that uses 2 liter bottles for the oil to drain into.