Cube 3D printer community

Hello Dan, my name is gais I'm a frustrated cube user.

Bought a Cube 3d at our office almost 3 years ago. Out of the box this thing was a worthless piece of sh#t. The slicing software is terrible, it either works to create a printable object or it doesn't. When it does not work there are no options available to make it work. The interface looks like it has been designed by a 1st year student to be used by his 8 year old brother. The hardware is slow and noisy, there is no way to manually set the wireless configuration, there is no error logging to debug any problems. Our printer never had a working network connection as the wireless adapter was DOA.

The cartridges are the worst of all, expensive and fitted with a proprietary print counter. The first one gave up after only 10 small prints. Forced open the casing and it had more than 75% filament left. This problem seemed a structural problem to our printer as every cartridge that it renders empty has at least >50% filament left. Contacted Cubify, got some replacement supplies, but no solution to the underlying problem. When my sensor contact points broke after replacing the next cartridge I've had it with this thing...

So here I am, just opened up my Cube this weekend, soldered the connection points back on, flashed the old firmware back in place and happily printing the remnants of my broken cartridges using the bulk filament hack. And I must confess, reading the post about ripping out the entrails of this purposely restricted machine and replacing them with an Arduino seems VERY tempting...

To be continued.