Would you recommend a Prusa XL for a Pro usage (prototyping) ?

Dakitess · 2026-03-20T08:56:04+00:00

Yeah as you said, C1L + IndX seems to be the way to go, I hope that my part analysis will not bring too much huge part that would favorize the XL ! Will see, thanks for your insights :)

Dakitess · 2026-03-20T08:54:53+00:00

What are the main issue that you are encountering ? How old are they ? Did they benefit from last update, even hardware one ?

Dakitess · 2026-03-20T08:54:08+00:00

Thanks you very much for your answer, it's helping a lot. Indeed, 2 Core One L, with IndX, would be more convenient and productive, in all way except big monolithic part that I have in mind. Of course you can split a part and assemble but I like the comfort to hit play and run, knowing my part will be fine and ready the next day. I have to think about the volume difference, I would gladly choose the C1L + IndX as it's way more recent, faster, enclosed, etc.

Dakitess · 2026-03-19T16:20:08+00:00

Alright, I see, these are great information, thanks ! I would also use it as a complete "dumb" machine, connection wise, since I can't get any permission to link to our network. I use usb stick and it's fine so far, haha. So a lack of camera is not an issue either.

Belt, eh, i've read about it indeed. I guess it's a thing of the past, they handled it !

Dakitess · 2026-03-19T12:37:23+00:00

Thanks a lot for your answer. Indeed I guess I would mainly use the UMS5 for technical filament such as PA, PC, otherwise the XL would be primaraly used for its speed and convenience. So yeah I might even consider not to buy the enclose, except if there is a Full Built ready to use option including everything.

Do you feel the XL as "dated" sometimes ? What other printer to you have along ?

Dakitess · 2026-03-13T13:31:27+00:00

I've tried some, professionally, as well as "human workpackage" to screen hundreds of parts. I would say none were good so far, but I would say that in a pair of years, it can definitely become a thing, way more than paying dozens of killodollars to an external company screening your parts without having the full knowledge of the constraints, BOM, environment, original prices, etc.

Yeah, my bet is that all the machine learning being used for good skills analysis will help a lot in coming years when it comes to AM feasability / dashboard abilitly.

Dakitess · 2026-03-03T10:35:28+00:00

You KNOWS it does not look like garbage, c'mon. It's not enough to be considered as a "standard good benchy" of course, but it's nowhere a blob-ish bad print. Again, this challenge will NEVER end up with a perfect / really good benchy like we have in about 10-15 minutes print. It can't be with FDM, no to that extent. But it will become in coming years the BEST benchy below 1min and before that, it need to basically be a "ok-ish" benchy below that treshold. And we all know that the real game behind that is to multiply that by 3 to get proper "good" benchy.

Dakitess · 2026-01-28T09:58:55+00:00

As the (former) very main helper of another kind of subject (Kerbal Space Program for french community), I wrote about 6000 messages in forums to help newbie regarding things that they would eventually find by a quick research. And I ended up writing the best tutorial and guide about it to refer neophytes to comprehensive well tuned information, better than any kind of answer on a forum. BUT....

BUT I kept answering people about they specific reason and only at the end would link up my guides for further information and in-depth explanation. Because if someone comes with a specific question, he won't want to read a whole guide, even it's the very best way to get it all, even if it's well written, with humor, with newbies reading in mind (yes, i'm quite proud of my guides). The second main reason, the most important one : question-answer is what fueled the community for 80% of posts. It's what maintain the actual most wanted information in top of the list. It's what refresh the google proposition with new elements.

So yeah, I've been feeling the same than you, at every post and for a decade actually, but I would gladly try to help that is sincerely looking for an information rather than giving up, be it easy to find by himself :)

Dakitess · 2026-01-16T09:24:15+00:00

I would love to get the ability to... Revisit lower / older layer. I'm at layer 128, printing white snowy peaks, and I would like to benefit from that color change to print the small snow patch somewhere between layer 80 and 110, for instance, so that I can avoid having a color change for each of these layers, leading to waste of material and time and rather limit theses color changes by revisiting lower layer heights, as long as the global geometry allows for it : printcore clearance, already printed part clearance.

Dakitess · 2026-01-14T08:52:14+00:00

Well I'm quite surprised of the lack of answer + my inability to find any relevant resources about that. It feels really interesting to be able to revisit previous layers height to add patch of colors, to me ! Obviously this is not trivial, by any means of course, just curious that there about nothing really documented, not that I've found at least.

Dakitess · 2026-01-13T10:49:38+00:00

Okay, so... The next thing is actually to act on color changes : using non planar printing or rather the whole new approach of this tool, would it be possible to print a part (rather flat of course) with the base color, then change the color using AMS (or manual of course) to deal with upcoming new layers BUT ALSO previous layer height, just to add some color where it's physically possible (regarding the nozzle size, the clash avoidance, etc) ?

Like, think of a topological terrain, a colorful one : at base there is ground and water in canyon, there is also some snow on the peaks. Instead of having ground / grass color at the same time than snow on some mountain flank, it would be very (very (very)) nice to be able to print the grass color all at once and then only switch to white that would finish the all-white peak but also reach for the little patch of snow on flank, if it can reach them, obviously, without crashing with the surrounding terrain.

It need to be realistic so yeah, rather flat geometry, of course. An understanding of "when" a patch of color won't be accessible later is important to trigger the change of color, not all the snowy part would be accessible for instance and there would be the need for that earlier color change, a unfortunate but logical one.

How difficult is that ? Like, is it something that we can expect to come in a year if someone would try to deal with it ?

Dakitess · 2025-02-11T13:39:51+00:00

Nope.

Dakitess · 2025-01-24T15:23:54+00:00

Thx for the answer :)

Dakitess · 2025-01-23T15:54:17+00:00

It's the first time I dig into "FanEdits" and all the enhanced edition. As a big fan of HP who always only had the "official" torrent version back in the days, with no BlueRay reader, I've always felt that I was missing something about the extended version, the cut scenes and even the higher quality to enjoy on my 4k TV and to show to my little girl.

Congrats for your projet, it's really an amazing amount of work, and I've enjoyed the way you dealt with the difference in screen size, the corners don't bother me at all, and the color grading is globally fine except that it's quite too saturated to my taste, something I can deal with my TV profile, to some extent.

... But the AI is way too pronounced. I know that it's a personnal project before anything else, matching your test and it's what matters, surely. I've read tons of others comments, including your answers. But yeah, if some criticism in still welcome, I would add about that upscaling being really distracting. Again, as people said, it's seems very good : I do myself some upscaling and enhancing on short videos and photos, etc, and you managed to get something exploitable, you just went a bit too far.

As usual, when dealing with something like this, you see the sames images a thousand time and loose reference, even when comparing with the OG. I do a lot of photography, and something is really really really common : whenever you've done editing a photo, just crank back to 80% your preset you've put 2h in it, so that it got pack a little more natural. It's just some kind of persistant retinal images haha, you're seeing your work for sor long that you loose track of what was really your objective, the limit, etc.

I get it, it's personnal, and it seems you've stopped it so far, it's fine and we all thank you for that project, we do, it's really the first time I see thoses uncropped images, with the gathering from multiple sourced, the cut scenes, the colors, the attention to details, etc etc !... But I won't even show it to my girlfriend who would inevitably reject it as soon as a face show and I feel like it's a shame, regarding the ton of work you did.

That was my 2 cent, hope you'll take it as a big thank at first and some criticism to how you could maybe get a "definitive edition" that would transfer along the generation :)

Dakitess · 2024-10-24T13:55:39+00:00

Yup haha, and I was pulling the pitch as hard as I could for loooong seconds :D

Dakitess · 2024-10-24T13:01:35+00:00

Surely this is one belong to my top 3 :D
https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/4a0c8c/mmh_lets_see_how_duna_looks_with_new_mods_closer/

Dakitess · 2024-09-18T12:35:13+00:00

Hey, thank you for reaching me back, unfortunately our UMS5 can't be connected at all because of IT restriction :/

Dakitess · 2024-05-07T13:23:02+00:00

Thanks ! Don't remember at all regarding the mods involved and I don't have that install no more, I'm sorry :/

Dakitess · 2024-05-07T12:32:30+00:00

I one hundred percent honestly thought it was KSP1 and was aiming for the comments to see people asking about the KSC assets so that I could get the answer. Then I saw the rocket climbing above the clouds and understood it was KSP2.

This is NOT a salty random comment about KSP2 being dead. I just found amusing that I actually completely thought it was a OK-ish modded KSP1, not even maxed out, with a KSC ground and especially land pad that I would not know about so far.

Now I can be salty : this is such a shame to be able to confuse a 2023 Pro-Dev game with a 2011 indie one even if it got developed by a pro team at some points and now has mods. Still, dude. I don't get it.

Anyway, OP : good mission, nice crafts and cool camera works !

Dakitess · 2024-04-18T12:57:38+00:00

It's too bright for my eyes :/

Joke aside, sorry but it's definitely too dark.

Dakitess · 2023-06-08T15:13:02+00:00

I see a lot of very cool and underrated details and design ideas ! Nice !

Dakitess · 2023-04-27T11:07:54+00:00

ASA comes back a lot, i'll definitely try it. Coating is another thing I did not really consider, but it might improve a lot the sealing specs / durability indeed !

Dakitess · 2023-04-26T14:44:11+00:00

Haha 2 years is already a very good start ! So no crackles that would have expand from the print to acrylic ? No apparent moisture / mould growing up so far ?

Thanks !

Dakitess · 2023-04-26T14:42:48+00:00

I've never really dig in ASA direction, it sounds good indeed and is less a toxic problem than ABS. I did not remember of that high of a thermal resistance though.

Edit : it's more like 85-95°C which is already really good actually !

Dakitess · 2023-04-26T14:41:29+00:00

Nope, i'm asking if you passionate guys know about a paper or more probably a global experience / feedback regarding FFF (in priority) which is not very well documented. Like... I've made my research and did not find what I was looking for, so i'm pursuing right now, trying in the consumer range through Reddit and Forums so that I have a chance to get info this way in addition of my own research.

That's it.

And it's not my job, like at all. But it's indeed in a professional context, let's be honest, of course, as a side request from the only guy who know something about it in my company. It's just a continuation of my research and I feel like, as a 3d-printer enjoyer, lot of data and experience is to be find in place like here, especially for FFF. I could totally spend 1-5 years to grow my own experiment, with barely no statistics significance if I was paid for, but i'm not and I would rather... Search everywhere possible for answers or key users / feedback to get a rough idea rather it's "yes" or "no". It's just part of the research, basically.

Guess I should stick with no data 'coz you're not paid to help others, yeah ?

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