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pilleya
Joined: 31 Mar 2016
Posts: 91
Location: Sydney
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In regards to having to move to Windows 10 to utilise Autodesk Inventor, you should be able to install an older version that still supports Vista.
Inventor 2017 also supports 7 and 8.1
If you are running a system which came with Vista out of the box, it might not meet the minimum system requirements for 2017, so you might need to install an older version from a performance perspective.
In regards to the 3D printer I purchased a PRUSA kit in 2013/2014, which was fun to put together, it cost me about $450. Although it the printer your considering might take 12 hours to assemble it’ll most likely take many more hours of you calibrating/adjusting and testing it( lot of wasted filament) until you get it printing how you like. I don’t have a heated bed so I only use PLA, but I purchases some big ceramic resistors from Jaycar and are running them off the old computer PSU I’m using to power the printer, I’m using a temperature relay kit I bought from aliexpress for $4 and I can get the aluminium print bed up to 60+degrees which helps prints stick better.
I had to do a fair few modifications to get it working well, such as purchasing a new better hot-end as the supplied one was absolute junk( they sent me a replacement but I haven’t used). I had to make a custom mounting plate, to make it fit the existing linear system, and I also added a fan to the hotend and made a case for the entire printer from 3mm polycarbonate, which helps keep it a constant temperature.
I feel that it is only about now after 2 years that it is printing nicely and consistently. My father has spent a lot of time using it recently and made some parts to show his work colleagues, he helped improve the print quality( he has more patience then I do:)
My school ( I’m in Yr12) has 6-7 Maker-bots and a few Formlab STL printers.
Although it’s a hard to maintain, and un-reliable, I think it can make prints which are as good as what the Maker-bot printers can make which are about $3000
That auto-leveling feature seems really good for a low-cost printer
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