Craftbot can be used with PLA, ABS, HIPS, Laywood, Nylon, etc. Probably the most easiest-to-use material of them all is PLA (excellent choice for beginners), since its material properties, such as very low shrinkage, inflict little degrade upon your print quality (not to mention that PLA does not emit any toxic fumes while printing). […]
The CraftBot Plus and the CraftBot 2 can print any object in scale, as long as its within the given build space, which is: 250 x 200 x 200 mm (about 10 x 8 x 8 inches). This doesn’t mean that you can’t make a larger print though; if your intended print is larger than […]
This is a measure of the accuracy in which the extruder moves along the X,Y axes. It is not the layer height (which the CraftBot is able to print at 50 microns/layer when a .25mm nozzle is used). This Positioning precision value however, can be as low as a 4 micron accuracy!
While regular 2D printers only print in X,Y dimensions (and usually deal in only texts), 3D printers allow you to create physical objects by using melted materials, quite often in the form of a filament; they build these objects layer-by-layer. In the end the only limitation is your imagination!
Printing time depends on the settings the .Gcode file is associated with. Small sized, medium quality settings, for example a checkers chip printed at 200 microns/layer can take up to 10 – 20 minutes. Larger objects with the same quality settings can even take several hours to print; if you print the same large object […]
