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  • Thanks4Nothing@lemm.eeOPtoFreeCAD@lemmy.mlFreeCAD Discord
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    6 months ago

    Correct. I was struggling with a design …(I am very new to cad) I normally would have gone to reddit, but since I quit reddit with the drama, I came here. Not much going on so I had to look elsewhere. I didn’t make the channel, I think it is an official channel. Maybe…? Regardless. They have helped me a ton. One of the users actually recreated my design the “proper” way so I could achieve what I needed.










  • All great points. I thought he was asking if it was worth it to invest more on it. I was simply saying that if money wasn’t a limitation, there are great options that are a significant improvement. Some day my MK3 is outdated too. I wouldn’t buy one now, but I also am not sure I will buy the MK3.5 kit and spend the time installing it.



  • Here is my take. I have an Aquila (Ender 3 v2 clone). I really had to keep that thing tuned in order to get decent prints. I later bought a Prusa MK3S+ which I haven’t had to tune at all. I am bummed that the MK4 was released 4 months after I bought my MK3, but thats life.

    With the evolution of printing, and the new advances, an ender 3 just cannot compete with quality or speed…unless you put in a lot of upgrades and time/energy. Its a workhorse, but only for those that want to work on it and tune it. There are so many new printers that are faster, more reliable, and have some incredible features like Bambulabs, Mk4, Anker Make, etc. Its really hard to recommend Ender 3s (any of them) anymore.


  • They accomplish the same thing, but the probe itself is very different.

    Taken from a helpful reddit post: *The BLtouch is based on an hall-effect sensor, while the CRtouch has an optical switch. The BLtouch has a plastic and pointy pin, while the CR has a bulkier metal pin.

    The CRtouch is slightly more precise than the BLtouch with a lower deviation delta. They both are more sensitive than the minimum stepping distance of 0.025mm that is found most frequently.

    The BLtouch is at its fourth (3+1) iteration, while the CRtouch has been released relatively recently. There’s a lot of information on the BLtouch available on Antclab’s website, while there’s pretty much none for the CR.

    I would go for the BL for two reasons: the smaller footprint of the probe behaves better on textured surfaces, and beacuse hall-effect sensors aren’t subject to drifting when aging (unlike the optical switch in the CR, that technically “wears out” and starts introducing an offset to the measurements).*



  • I live in a blue state, MN. Our Governor accomplished a ton of great things in his previous term. He was reelected last fall. During that campaign, we had our state fair. His conservative challenger was running on the campaign “Walz Failed” and literally had a plane with that flying behind it on a banner all day, each day of the fair. They had people right inside each gate handing out bags that said it. Felt very ridiculous.