has anyone tried these Cube and Cubex printers? are they any good? Im not too excited about tinkering with my printer (unlike most of you) so I dont mind paying a little more for a unit.
The filament is locked to the vendor, so you will pay more for supplies. I have heard they are pretty much plug and play, but I myself have never used one. You will only be able to print in the plastic that cube says is okay, so if you are interested in nylon or crazy flexible materials you will probably not see them(although I am no. Authority on what cube sells or plans to sell)
The printer look good. I saw them @Euromold last year. But yes: The filament is extremley expensive if compared the “use whatever you want” printers.
Just checked. Cadriges between 60 to 110€
what prevents you from gettng filament from somehwere else? is t a bizzarre diameter?
Nope, Each cartridge has a E-prom module in it, when the volume left =0 you need a new one (even if there is still plastic in it) and if there isn’t a cartridge in it, it will not print.
THAT, is something I wouldn’t mind spending time to hack!
It has been hacked, but by doing so you will make reduce the “just click print” functionality. a large part of the cubes ability to print is the consistancy of the filament/hot-end, they know what settings their filament needs to work well. In the DIY community we don’t… (warning shameless plug coming)… that is why we started working on UFID-S-(edit sorry the webpage is http://ufids.org, the project is ufid). We are trying to get the same filament knowledge transferred with the spool. (like they do with the Cubed cartridge) and keep it open-source, and keep it community driven, not profits driven.
fyi the hack in question
The printers only have a 3 month warranty