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Welcome, my name's Dan. I'm a frustrated Cube user.

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Dan:
Hi all.  Welcome to the new cube 3d printer forum. 

I've been a cube user for around 12 months.  The 2 most obvious things I noticed when I first purchased my cube 2 was a) only 3 month warranty and b) there's no online community supporting these devices except for some blogs created by Tom Meeks of which I've inspected thoroughly.   Im an Australian which means retailer support for these devices is a comprehensive as the lack of online support which is why after 12 months I've decided to create this forum.   

The first time I plugged in my cube 2, it didn't work.  For a "consumer" product, I must say, I was amazed by the complete crapness of my brand new $1200 printer.  Nothing would print, I couldn't even load a cartridge.  I spent hours trying to insert the filament into the printer.  Without knowing what to expect, the clicking noise my printer made as I was trying to load the filament didn't raise any alarm bells.  My girlfriend at the time (very soon to be wife) was sighing at me constantly, arguing with me as to why I shouldn't send the unit back.  After a few hours and with little to no support, I took a sneaky deep breath and decided to pull the unit apart to see if I could figure out why the unit wasn't printing.  I removed the extruded cover, pulled out a few hex screws and eventually found the reason I couldn't even load a filament cartridge was because there was the remanence of some filament already jammed I the printer.  My first thought was that the unit had already been used.  However after manually removing the jammed filament and finally loading the cartridge, the amazement of printing my first 3D object made me and the missus forget the hours of screwing around I had just endured.   

That was the first problem I would have loved to have some community support with and wasn't the last.  This forum a means of sharing my experiences with this printer to the online community with the hope to create a better system for all to use.  I sincerely hope 3D Systems (the manufacturer of the Cube 3D printers) keep as close an eye on this forum as I know many users eventually will and take heed of the feedback, successes and at times rage this printer gives us. 

Happy...er Cube 3D printing.

Dan

Harold Sobel:
Hi Dan

I am a not yet user of the new Cube 3 which is slated to be delivered at the beginning of August. I have high hopes for this machine as I hope all of the nightmare problems people have had with the Cube3D have been addressed in this unit. I selected the Cube3, after a great deal if research, mainly because I wanted so etching that I didn't have to tinker with. I am a full time tinkerer and didn't want to cross this over to my 3D printing. As this unit has no users and very little info available I thought this would be the place to start. I would like to use this forum to report on my experiences as they go forward. Thanks for having me.
H.

Dan:
Nice to meet you Harold.  The only problem I can see with anything related to cube is 3D Systems themselves.  Is such a pain trying to get any community information on anything they do.  Fingers crossed this forum with flourish in time and give the printer the community discussion it clearly needs. 

I cant say im unhappy with the cube.  Im very glad I managed to find work arounds for the most frustrating issues ive found with this printer as mentioned in other posts.  None the less, Im using my cube to try my hand at building my own 3D printer the Rostock - Gulp :http://reprap.org/wiki/Rostock

Good luck with your Cube and welcome to the forum.

Regards
Dan

Vadder:
Hi Dan,

Thank you for creating this small but nice forum  :)

My name is Martin an I'm from Hamburg/Germany.
Since a lot of years I observe the market for 3D-printers.
But the most models were too expensive or only for real freaks  ;)

Two weeks ago I found the Cube 2 in an onlineshop very cheap: only 485,- Euro.
That was the right price for this experience an I bought one.  ::)

The 3 days for delivery I searched for a community about the Cube.
Only this little forum seems to be the right one.
Here are many nice tipps, so I read nearly every post.

Best wishes and good printing
Martin

sorry for my bad english



 

gais:
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.

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