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<font face="Arial">I have printers #6 & 7 here, both Artillery
(X1 Plus and X4 Plus). <br>
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</font><font face="Arial">3D printers will go well with a fixer of
things that break. They break in strange ways at times. One of
mine just simultaneously had the nozzle come loose with plastic
oozing out where it shouldn't and the power switch won't turn off.<br>
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There are definitely cheaper printers on the market, for a first
printer get something decent but not too fancy.<br>
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You will need to know 3D CAD. I've switched from a couple of
decades of TurboCAD to FreeCAD. The current version of FreeCAD
works pretty well, but you have to get used to the way it thinks.
Every part will be built up in many steps, but then you can go
back and change any previous step and have that propagate to the
last one.<br>
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I like PETG plastic, it doesn't have the toxic fumes of others and
prints well, but there's more colors in PLA. PLA will die of old
age on the spool so don't buy ahead. I have had that happen from
time to time, I have a spool now that's cracking and falling off
in pieces.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13-Nov-25 17:29, Dan Sheehan via
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<div>A bit off track,</div>
<div>but seeking info about getting started (from zero) in 3D
printing</div>
<div> (for a 10-yer-old granddaughter, as well as myself)</div>
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<div>...Dan Sheehan<br>
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