in major agreement to the above.
When it works, its great, lovely and smooth. When it doesnt work it leaves you totally stuck in limbo with almost completely unrecoverable errors. I use the material station as well which is borderline even worse. Frankly too many annoyances to list and its been a bad buy from my point of view for something that cost twice as much as my car.
Our Ultimaker Extended 2+ didnt suffer any of the issues we have.
Pros are it looks nice, the build plate is big, all the remote access is ok (not great).
Cons are its the most frustrating, slow, annoying piece of equipment i have ever worked with which often leaves huge prints wrecked when it fails on the last layer or wont change over material successfully.
1. had the machine for around 4 years, experience mixed to awful
2. nozzles havent been clogged once i dont think, the material station we have atomic pulls the material after each job so the nozzle is almost always clear, but it then weeps on the next job which causes it to fail on the bed levelling so i have to manually heat up the nozzle beforehand to ooze out the remainder
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I tend to rant on this forum about the UMS5 especially so that people googling about it might read that the picture is not all bright. I won't go in details, but :
- UMS5 user for 1 year in professionnal use, engineering, prototyping. About 1200 hours of working time.
- Not a good experience so far. Not at all. A LOT of problem, issues. Some come from software (firmware) with errors, failure, etc, some other are hardware. The machine is, to my taste, very poorly designed. Or at least, it's really not worth the price. It's (sooooo) slow, it's not reliable, it has plenty design flaw that lead to premature damages on the machine, it's not ergonomic nor practical, the material ecostytem is pricey and does not add much compared to the others brands, official PVA has really not good feedback and I confirm. There is really much much more, sadly.
- Print cores are... Bad. Yes, clogging happens a lot, especially PVA in BBCore.
Be sure that it's a "good" machine feature-wise : 2 cores for bi-material printing, enclosed big printing area, capable of reaching high temps, nice glass plate, very good auto-leveling, and so on. When it works, it really shines and can run for 60 hours, i've done it multiple times. But... But that's quite unusual, unfortunately. Also, it's crazy slow, like, reaaaaally slow, I insist. You'll read all over the place to print "30 mm/s" to avoid this issue, this problem, whereas you have a rigid body and a 6000€ machine. It's not okay, especially when it rings so much if you dare priting paste 40 mm/s (you fool !).
Yeah, this is not a good feedback... I would actually prevent anyone from buying it, if I were to speak about 3d printers. But that's me, my case, my experience about it : it's quite known to be a reliable and semi-pro good machine, and you'll find it in many maaaaany companies for that specific reason : plug and play, simple, auto-tuned, as advertised. This is not what we are experiencing at all, and i've been working with 300-1000€ 3d printers for 5 years.
Please, don't hesitate to collect many more feedback : i'd would really like to love this machine, as this is the one I choose for my company. But so far... A regret.
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