3D printers

[fusionframer]

Does anyone have any recommendations for 3D printers. They have come down in price and i have loads of ideas for uses.

I have looked at various recommendations online, but wondered if anyone had one they had experience of.

Cheers

Nick

[mikeemb]

Elegoo and Phrozen are good printers but it depends on how your needs.
I'm looking at getting an elegoo saturn 4 ultra, that's a resin printer so great for models to.

[technoframer]

I bought a new creality ender 3 about a year ago as a cheap entry model to learn about these things. It now runs every day producing parts for frames and has not failed once. It's a learning curve, as are all machines, and 3D printing is very slow so you need a lot of time to get to grip with things.
When I say failed, I mean the machine. Prints often fail due to settings, design, wear etc...

The hardest part for me was learning to use the drawing software to produce the custom parts. I opted for Freecad, being free, and gave up on it at least five times but persevered and now have a reasonable grasp of the software and can produce parts and stands to my own design.

[JFeig]

...The hardest part for me was learning to use the drawing software to produce the custom parts...

This is the same type of question that many ask regarding the "best" computer to use. It all depends on what you want to do with it. Don't get the cart before the horse.

In the case of 3-d printers, what is your endgame?

I have 5 3-d printers. One is an SLA printer with the others being FDM based machines. One of the FDM machines is a Markforged 2 machine that is an industrial machine that uses fiber-filled filament as well as continuous filament reindorsement fibers. I use Fusion 360 for CAD design for which there is a free version for hobbyist and start up users to use.
I design in either solid, surface, or modeling modes depending no the need of the project.