Another $199 for 3 in 1 going to KS!!!
I do like the idea but im not sure if , like many before it, it will become a true solution or a feature
http://www.snapmaker.com/kickstarter-lead.html
Nice renderring 
Interesting. Can’t see how the filament feed would work at all as pictured. Makes me suspicious.
Well the cover reminds me of 3DS Cube which was ( based on this picture ) smaller
Also y axis rail ought to be rotated sideways somehow or it would fill with sawdust when cnc carving.
@Ariel_Yahni_UniKpty it would make sense to me if the filament were in a ptfe guide tube but as is it looks like it would just snap off when pulled taut.
https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cubifycube2.jpg&imgrefurl=https://3dprint.com/2091/3d-systems-printers-in-homes/&docid=2got4prpr1bDVM&tbnid=PRSyYzShUqPodM:&vet=1&w=900&h=532&source=sh/x/im
https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DNghA1zRDdk/maxresdefault.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DDNghA1zRDdk&docid=__nerC7rByYJmM&tbnid=MLHR54y-05W_fM:&vet=1&w=1280&h=720&source=sh/x/im
How about JUST SAY NO to Kickstarters. They might well be legit, but you need to make them prove that because they are asking for your money up front. So many renders on their page is a rather huge red flag in my opinion. Plus, you can buy a working printer in that general price range and have it delivered within a few days to a month rather than hope you get it a year or two from now and hearing excuses why they didn’t ship machines when they shut down.
Yeah. The video shows the person inserting filament into a guide tube on the cube while the snapmaker render clearly is missing one. So many details look questionable to me.
Open laser doesn’t meet safety regulations and is a huge eye damage risk.
A good 3D printer frame makes a bad CNC milling frame, and the other way around. So this is most likely average on both.
The price point makes it impossible to sell it at a profit. Most of these parts are “off the shelve” you can do a cost breakdown quite easy.
End result, it will be kicked from kickstarter or will end up like the Tivo3D or Makibox.
Little build volume
Very suspicious price target!
While the actuators look nice, seems to cheap to be true.
I’ve never understood combination machines. Quite apart from the whole compromise thing, mixing 3D printing and the debris from CNC is surely just a recipe for disaster. It’s bad enough keeping my printers spotless just fighting against ordinary dust and plastic debris. Add to that the unshielded laser, in a unit costing less than $200, no thanks…
Big risk.
The fact that the laser is misclassified (claiming class I which is 100% impossible for an unshielded etching laser) means the laser part of this product is ILLEGAL to sell in the US and EU.
Oh, and the company behind it is Chinese, which isn’t really allowed by Kickstarter. They’re either going through a US intermediary (which has blown up with Kickstarters in the past) or are violating the ToS.
Also, like everybody else says, the pricing is highly suspicious for the hardware they’re showing. Plus lack of detail.
It’s either a scam or a bad attempt at viral marketing. STAY AWAY.
If the stuff is real, I think it must have threaded rods in the linear rails with high speed motors driving them and it may be a quite noisy. That or it is really slow.
@Daid_Braam I’m not sure about that. What’s about BoXYZ printer. It does an excellent job on both 3d printing and cnc miling.
@Matthias_Stegert BoXZY is slooooooooow for 3d printing, because the motors can’t spin those giant ball screws particularly fast. It’s also not all that rigid for a mill (unsupported round rods = blegh!) AND it costs $3000. It looks like a pretty good three-in-one machine compared to the other stuff out there, but the best three-in-one machine is still going to perform worse than three separate single-purpose machines.
@Matthias_Stegert I think @Ryan_Carlyle sums it up quite well. For 3K you get a okish 3D printer, an Okish milling machine, and a laser that ignores all safety regulations around lasers and can only engrave. (again, starts to be a running theme with these things)
For 3K, I could get, An Ultimaker Original+ (faster 3D printer) and a Shapeoko (bigger build volume mill, which is more rigid). And a K40 laser that can actually cut something. And run them all at the same time.
(Ok, the laser is a bit of a cheat, as the K40 needs some upgrades to be really useful. But I think there is money to spare after buying these 3. Or you trade the expensive Ultimaker for something cheaper. But as I work at Ultimaker, and love my Original at home. I damn well list that one )