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we finally got our hands on a high-end FDM or fused deposition modeling printer from ulta maker called the ultime Kerr extended to we're a little late to the game in terms of 3d printing but that's because honestly just printing from Shapeways was always kind of a great solution for us Ultima car offers us to an Ulta maker to to send to us and it's kind of too badass to deny so hang out to watch Tara and I print some random stuff and please like the video for more 3d printing stuff in the future I would love to do more videos on this subject but I need your guys's support in order to do that so yes I'm begging for likes please like and share this video the mastercase 5 by Coolermaster gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories click now to learn more so first off what is an FDM printer essentially what happens is it squirts filament out of a hot end and lays down layers on layers and layers on layers of the stuff to eventually create your modeled object this type of printer is typically what you would find for a home you style printing scenario not necessarily industrial applications as they would very likely have a much larger printer with a different printing style that being said this isn't a cheap printer you could go pick up a cheap 3d printing kit for like what like 500 bucks plus or minus a couple hundred but when you get into the really fancy high-end printers like this it can get really expensive for example this guy is about 2700 ish u.s. dollars with an expensive printer you get a much bigger print volume meaning that the bed you print on is relatively large and especially with the extended version that we have the object you can print can actually be quite tall you will get a better print resolution in terms of speed and precision so you'll get a better looking print in the end with less of those obvious levels from where it was moving you get a machine that doesn't make as much loud aggressive noises and then the rest of the improvements are largely going to be more subtle and hard to detect things that are actually still very important those things are like the specific bearings that were used the hot end the steppers the belts and their tightness etc which will both contribute to the longevity of your printer and the quality of the final print I wouldn't say that ultime kerttu is an entry-level printer if it's your first foray into the 3d printing world I might start with something cheaper but for the high-end printing buff this may be your target now without further ado let's get to some printing the first thing I tried to print was a little GoPro handle my idea for this was that it wasn't an overly complicated print for a first print and it would actually be useful in our day to day work on the modeling side of things I just downloaded this small but in the future I could just take the bit off the end that connects to the GoPro and model whatever I want behind it so we can make specifically tailored GoPro mounts relatively quickly and inexpensively which is awesome I created two of these one at maximum quality and the other at minimum quality the maximum quality one took just over four hours minimum quality just took over an hour and a half one thing I'd like to note here is that the time the Ultimaker shows on itself is incredibly inaccurate but if you're using the cura slicing software it will give you a pretty accurate time estimate before you start the print next up we started printing the fire poles which were conceptualized by me and then designed and modeled by Taryn the first one was very small model that we built with scaffolding enabled this was an interesting print because of how much of the printing platform was extended over an overhang the printer made quite a mess with the supports after a very minor amount of work I was able to cut the excess away and the final product looked quite good but it was still a little funky next up we printed one of that was four times as large as the previous fire pole this was an interesting print for a few reasons I turned off the scaffolding and Taryn took the top plate off and built it on the side which makes way more sense while adding notches so that we could put it together later on the reason for this was to avoid the scaffolding mess we had earlier and to see how accurate the printer was when making small intricate notches and this last one oh look at that that's really good awesome it didn't take much sanding the only issue we ran into here was the top of the fire pole platform sat on the heated bed for so long that it actually started warping an unfortunate and avoidable problem if you take the right precautions but I wasn't experienced enough yet next up we have the first part of a shroud that will be used in a build logs lioness is doing for a 1u server the shard was conceptualized and modeled by Taryn and this print went on without a hitch and it was impressive to see the printer deal with a slanted edge that easily then I tried to do a few prints of some random things and change the filament before the last big print which is where disaster struck the printer started acting really weird and due to my inexperience I wasn't able to identify what was going on and after about five hours of troubleshooting I was getting close to giving up there seemed like there was a separate problem with every freaking part of the printer but with the help of twitch chat who affectionately named the printer Darren and had been watching for about 20 plus hours at this point at twitch.tv slash Luke underscore lef our shameless plug and specifically the user more fiend Li I was able to finally solve the various problems that were going on and keep on printing I have to give alta maker a point here because even though I had a vast amount of inexperience it was actually pretty easy to kind of take things apart and tinker with them to try to identify the problem so that's pretty cool the last leg on this journey was the large part of the shroud that I mentioned Taryn had modeled earlier for the server at this point both I and the twitchchat had learned a lot more about 3d printers and things ran smoothly or are running smoothly as they're still about half an hour left on that 18 hour print in conclusion 3d printers are great but this whole process is rather expensive and at this point on the practicality or hobby side it's definitely both but I'd see it leaning more towards towards hobby it will eventually be a practical tool for your house but right now unless you have the extra cash I don't know if you want to get ahead of the game it might be a good idea I could see these being standard-issue devices in people's homes in the near future and I'm sure Ulta maker will be here to see that happen as the ultimate kerttu is a thing of beauty in both aesthetics and an engineering viewpoint tunnel bear they easy to use web privacy app for 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