{"id":4731,"date":"2016-10-08T22:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T22:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2016-10-08T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T22:43:22","slug":"please-recommend-a-printersoftware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=4731","title":{"rendered":"Please recommend a printer\/software"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Sorry for the wall of text! I might be overthinking this. Or underthinking it, not sure. I&#8217;ve read the FAQ, but I still have some questions.I&#8217;m looking for a 3D printer; I have used one before, but it belonged to my university, and I don&#8217;t really know what distinguishes printers from each other.I&#8217;m trying to stay under $1000; around or under $600 would be great.I&#8217;m really into ultralight backpacking, and one big use of the printer would be making lightweight camp gadgets; I&#8217;d like to be able to print things that are small, light, and have decent structural integrity. I think that means I need to use ABS plastic with high fill, but I don&#8217;t know whether filament size or resolution are relevant. I would love some input on that.Other than that, I&#8217;d probably just make trinkets and math-art. I&#8217;d like to print my own designs, so I&#8217;d like to use software that includes almost &#8220;free-hand&#8221; design, but can also use parameterization. I wanna say I used sketch-up last time, and I think it had both of these options.One thing I&#8217;m unclear on is how compatible printers tend to be with different filaments and software. I see not all printers will work with all design software: is this something I should consider when selecting a printer, or should software choice be secondary? Am I correct in my understanding that printing ABS is harder than printing PLA, and requires a heated bed, and that some do only PLA but others do both?I&#8217;m not sure I understand the qualities I should be looking for in an extruder.I guess some other potentially significant details are:I would be using this printer in a small apartmentI&#8217;m on WindowsI&#8217;m in North AmericaI would be willing to assemble the printer, but I&#8217;d prefer not to have to.A few printers I have been considering are:Duplicator 4XMaker&#8217;s Tool Works FusematicMaker&#8217;s Tool Works MiniMaxMonoprice Maker Select 3D PrinterUP MiniA little above my preferred budget, LulzBot MiniAny and all advice is appreciated. Thank you! http:\/\/ift.tt\/2dJEi0c<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the wall of text! I might be overthinking this. Or underthinking it, not sure. I&#8217;ve read the FAQ, but I still have some questions.I&#8217;m looking for a 3D printer; I have used one before, but it belonged to my university, and I don&#8217;t really know what distinguishes printers from each other.I&#8217;m trying to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=4731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please recommend a printer\/software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4732,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}