Technology

59148 readers

2312 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

298

3D printer maker Bambu Lab faces patent infringement lawsuits that could threaten hobbyist 3D printing in general (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18550496

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Lmao, as an idiot trying to get a 20y/o stratysys running at work, I can see why they're trying to sue.

Their machines are trash and wildly outdated, DRM spools locked into cases and disposable beds are GARBAGE.

Turns out they spent a lot of time developing the 'cutting edge' FDM tech from 30 years ago and can't quite keep up with their coreXY counterparts.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

The old adage: Young companies innovate while old companies litigate.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Disposable what?!?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The print beds are SINGLE USE injection molded ABS(I think it's ABS, anyhow).

They snap over the heating element and seem to be a gigantic waste of resources. You can tell R&D was pushed to make their machines as profitable as possible by avoiding reusable parts.

You can't refill their spool cassettes either without some RFID hacking.

It's fuckin' bogus.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

We have 3 Stratasys printers at work and yeah, you're absolutely correct.

To add, their 'professional' slicer program "Insight" is the most user hostile piece of software I've ever laid my eyes on. Straight out of 1992 levels of awful. The workflow, the UI (if you can call it that), everything.

The other 'user friendly' slicer is "GrabCAD Print", an Apple style piece of garbage. It lacks everything beyond basic functionality, yet lately they've been pumping it full of subscription locked features.

Honestly, fuck this company.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Edit: nevermind my reading comprehension is stuck at kindergarten level