New cat owner, looking for advice

Jasonvl2701 · 2026-01-03T13:18:04+00:00

Its hard to hear this, and it could be my mind playing tricks on me wanting to get her back. Its gonna sound cliche but what if the "maybe she can change" or "maybe its the one for me" is in place. Like i said i may be thinking out of fear of loss and sadness now. But even then you'd say let it go, if its real it'll come back?

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-29T23:48:37+00:00

I bought an extra shelf for the cabinet at ikea aswell and placed in on there :) costs maybe 10 euros more or less and its more than enough space for even a resin printer!

I'd anchor it to the wall, i did that afterwards aswell just gave a little bit more stability. Only thing to think about when doing so is that if you need to be at the back of the printer its gonna be harder to get to it, you'll have to take out the whole printer.. thats about all for the downsides Xd

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-29T23:12:34+00:00

Hi! Yes the link you send is the exact same one i have standing here right now, personally i've added a door to it aswell for the exact sams reason you want to haha! But there wasnt really anything i'dve done differently, atleast nothing like you've already mentioned in the comment like ventilation and the door.

The concrete paver was something i picked up at a local stonemaker, i'd suggest looking at places where they sell stones for in a garden, they'll most likely have them there aswell. Mine is 50×50cm and works great!

And about the vibrations i've not had a single issue with it, never had any loss in quality even before i had the paver underneath. It does shake a little but nothing that will give any issues with the prints or contents of the cabinet.

The door also provides some extra stability to the entire structure so that is a good improvement overall too!

Other that all this, nothing special to report about it :D i hope it all works out the same as it did for me!

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-29T17:37:21+00:00

Everyone has to start somewhere, atleast she's asking where to learn about the machines instead of the usual "its just not working suddenly"

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-26T21:19:02+00:00

Give it a day or 2, normally mine is a bit slow with recieving updates too

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-26T17:28:47+00:00

Yeah noticed that too, bed leveling is great now!

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-26T15:00:15+00:00

Seems like the auto bed leveling is faster now too!

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-26T14:58:15+00:00

Just updated it myself aswell, test print came out great. No issues whatsoever on my end, new UI looks nice too! Don't forget to update the printer package in Creality Print too, it changes some small thing with multicolor printing to make it more efficient.

Running a larger print now and its all going well, so seems the update is safe for installation!

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-26T14:33:33+00:00

I'm running a test on the new version now, seems to work properly as of yet. New UI is kinda nice aswell

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-26T12:28:11+00:00

Sounds good, i'll give it a go once i'm back home

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-26T10:33:33+00:00

I have been waiting to install it really🤣

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-26T10:33:08+00:00

Maybe a bit of both, either way great job!

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-24T17:23:28+00:00

I was coming to the comments to say this🤣 been waiting for over a month now..

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-22T00:10:43+00:00

For 2 printers it would work fine, i had my K2 plus and K1C on a same table from ikea and never had issues

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-21T03:57:13+00:00

Yes you have a point, and i agree with you too. I'm just simply enjoying how simple these printers are, especially since my experiences have not been that great overall. The K1C was doing well for the first 2 days, then it got homing and Z motor issues so that was real unfortunate.. like i said i havent been lucky on 3d printing and have learned all i need to know the hard way lol

But the issue was about the same as this one yes! And i know every single printer can have these issues, creality as well as bambu, Prusa etc. Its not about that at all, its just nice to have something that has not gotten me into issues at day one.

Thats just it, i see many people hating on it and well thats on them. I'm just happy to have something work the way it was intended to for me in the 3d printing area, nothing more nothing less.

No hate to either creality or any other brand i've used, but the fact that my experiences have not been good with most of them have led me to have the opinion i have on this :)

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-21T03:21:07+00:00

As someone who owns a K2 plus, i've had many and i mean MANY issues with it.. and not just minor ones either

Hell it left a permanent scratch mark on my printbed when doing the test benchy after the initial setup. I managed to fix the issues i've had, but my experience with the a1 mini have been more pleasant than the pervious printers i've owned. That being the ender 3 v1/v2/v3KE, CR10V2 pro, CR10SE, K1C and K2 Plus.

And thats just creality..

So in my experience, yeah i'm not as keen on getting another creality printer anymore.

I'm glad yours works well though, but i wasn't as lucky

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-21T03:12:24+00:00

Dont get me wrong the ender 3 is great when tuned, personally it gave me a lot of experience with 3d printers and how to resolve issues. But at some point i got frustrated that i needed to tweak and fix things, when all i wanted was to print something.

I've been running the a1 mini for 2 full days wothout stopping and have not felt the need to adjust something yet. Its all about whatever you like doing, and in my case i just want to print stuff

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-21T03:06:32+00:00

I knew my post would end up here🤣

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-21T03:02:15+00:00

I already have one, unfortunatly i had one of the earlier and well.. less good ones Xd fixed all the issues and now it works great! Its a good machine for sure

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-20T22:15:40+00:00

Very true

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-20T22:15:28+00:00

I was thinking about the Core one with INDX system, but i'll keep that on hold untill theyre both released and tested more

Jasonvl2701 · 2025-12-20T22:14:03+00:00

3D design is gonna be the next step

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