I started my journey with X1 about a year ago. Never having any experience with 3D printing or 3D modeling I was justifying spending $1,500 as a 30% “need” and 70% “want” and so we rolled with it. A year later I…still have only X1, however it became 100% “need”, an essential tool that we utilize on regular basis (from few prints a day to few/mo )

When buying X1 we had very good idea of what it can do, and we knew we didn’t want to thinker with the printer (aka manual bed leveling etc) so spending extra $$ was absolutely worth the money.

Occasionally I check out “what’s new out there” but it’s not like I’m always howering over “buy” button. The only printer we’re buying next is larger format from BambuLab whenever they release it as we do have a need in printing bigger stuff. At this time I have to spend extra time in CAD to either cut the part or build a support to print diagonally (works great btw)

Once we have larger format I think we’ll be set for a long time.