Ultimaker 4, The next generation of 3d printer

[Swissengineer 25]

Also, after spending 2 hours cleaning our printer, please remove the dead space below the printbed where only scrap plastic goes and you can't reach to clean! And as said before, please, ultimaker, please, close this da** printer!!!!!!!!! Why was it so difficult to put a door and a fan controlling inside temp?!? Also a better UI would have been good....

[nallath 1,104]

49 minutes ago, Swissengineer said:

Why was it so difficult to put a door and a fan controlling inside temp?!?

Because every single profile would need to be changed and re-tested.

[kmanstudios 1,120]

I still want the dilithium crystal power supply for off grid printing....

 

[Swissengineer 25]

4 minutes ago, nallath said:

Because every single profile would need to be changed and re-tested.

I know it is one more parameter, but at least the temperature is controlled instead of now depending of the room temperature, wind, humidity, etc.... Much more stable environment.

By the way this is why we have interns.... 

[Coalwater 1]

36 minutes ago, nallath said:

Because every single profile would need to be changed and re-tested.

True! That's how you stay ahead! 

[nallath 1,104]

17 hours ago, Swissengineer said:

I know it is one more parameter, but at least the temperature is controlled instead of now depending of the room temperature, wind, humidity, etc.... Much more stable environment.

By the way this is why we have interns.... 

It's not just one parameter. All of them influence eachother. Just changing the temperature tends to be insufficient. It's something you can do by interns, but that's also not the way to stay ahead. I'd much prefer that our experienced process engineers do the profiles

[Marco_TvM 34]

On 4/1/2018 at 5:31 PM, FaultyTowels said:

RGB all the things

Random Generation of Blobs?

I think that would be possible 

Edited April 4, 2018 by Marco_TvM

[kmanstudios 1,120]

1 minute ago, Marco_TvM said:

Random Generation of Blobs?

I think that would be possible 

[JohnInOttawa 103]

Well, since we are wishing, I will repeat, give me a reason not to lust after a MarkForged.  Either the ability to lay continuous fibre or at least reliably inset a CF plate and seal it (note - by 'sealing' I mean laying a border of filament to take up any space between the inset stiffener and the surrounding material)

 

J

 

 

[rebekah_harper 60]

I'd look into having the option for the user to mount the material on the side with the extruder towards the front.  making it easier to load the material.  have a heated enclosure as part of the machine.  have a way to open the extruder for easy access for cleaning the feeder wheel whithout having to unscrew the whole thing. Four point bed levelling instead of the three currently used. 

Make the front frame a bit wider making it easier to take out the glass plate.

Add a rubber mat, removable floor inside the printer making it easier to clean out the bottom of the printer. 

 

just a few ideas

 

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

Why would you want four point leveling as 3 points define a plane? To have an overdefined system in order to reduce errors?

[SandervG 1,518]

I'll just leave this post here... (big news!)

[gr5 1,999]

 

[Swissengineer 25]

Yeeeeaaahhh finally !! So I see a much bigger print area, same print core system as UM3, I see doors ! and new HMI!!!! I think touch screen, with no buttons. Sadly it seems there is no top cover.

[ksmilejun 1]

what do you means this?

 

[ksmilejun 1]

How about make direct extruder version?

[fergazz 60]

9 hours ago, ksmilejun said:

what do you means this?

 

 

That's a mystery, you find more speculations at this post: 

 

and this seems to be the release date: