The Fastest IDEX 3D Printer You Can Buy

The Snapmaker J1 3D Printer features independent dual extruder (IDEX), ultra-fast print speed, and smoothing optimization…but is it any good? Check out my review! #3dprinting #3dprinter #3dprinted

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[ABentPaperclip]

Most slicers will let you pick your material for the support interface, which is what I use. I have a roll of PVA that has lasted me forever because I only use a tiny bit for each print that uses supports. Once the interface dissolves you just pull the rest of the support away, you don't have to use PVA for the entire support

[swingularity]

Instead of using water souluble filament as support material, I've seen others use PETG for supports when using PLA for the main filament and vise versa. Might be somthing worth trying with a dual extruder setup.

[mowcius]

They're absolutely still working out bugs and kinks, but these machines are no longer fresh off the press.

Sadly it seems that customers have all been beta testers as has been a pretty universal problem with Snapmaker's products over the years.

I'd love to buy one of these and have been keeping a close eye on it since release, but every day it seems another fundamental hardware flaw is found by the early buyers, and they've *still* not released their source for Marlin as used on the printer so even software bugs cannot be fixed by the community.

[aquanano]

Backup mode is when extruder 1 finish filament, and you continue printing with extruder 2. Oh, right, you figured out... :D

[TopofTheHillD]

The white im sure didn't print properly because you didn't calibrate the z offset for it. I have the SV04 idex. You have to manually adjust it to match the first extruder

[katherinediva]

I have the same printer and it did make the shark mouth open, but one of the teeth came out. No biggie though. do you know how to resume a project, deleting one of the pieces, if one of the pieces messed up?

[arthurtorricer]

I've watched this video many times. Now it's 2/17/24 and now my J1 has a clog.. looking for a video review on how to properly take stuck filament out from hot ends.

[prrypm]

This machine has one fatal flaw and a few minor flaws. They build an animation into the device where they show you that you need to run the wire brush along the extruders to clean them every print. Then when you read their online documentation it tells you not to do that. So I was forced to buy new nozzles, because the machine could no longer print successfully thanks to this little animation.

Also, the chamber can not trap heat in at all and this makes it very hard to use certain materials, even if you do get hardened Steel Extruder and Gears.

Third, they do not give the head the proper room to move properly and this requires you to print a riser, when they should have just made the printer a half an inch taller.

The slicer is another issue, it forces you to manually place your purge tower on the platform, or it will put it going right though the middle of your model.

[Foodgeek]

After buying the Snakmaker A350, I am never going to my Snapmaker again. It looks excellent on print, but getting good prints off it is almost impossible. Their support is only a little help, although they do answer. I bought a Prusa i3 instead, and that thing is just truckin' on making perfect print after perfect print :D

[arthurtorricer]

So i have had my J1 siting in tbe box, brand new since Jan 2023. My kids and i have been prinint with it for about 2 weeks now.. Using Tinkercad , not yet understand Prusa slicers .. We save the 3d model onto our file on desktop and then open it with Snapmakers Cura.. then send to machine for print.. Must be an easier way? Prusa slicer isnt working with our J1.. also can this machine print Nylon and other harder spools with just changing nozzles?

[bernds]

350 definitely sounds fast - but it'd have been cool to see more than just a few seconds of "live" real-time footage of the printer printing at that speed.
my Delta FDM printer is advertised with "up to 90mm/s", but I've been afraid to go beyond half of that honestly 😅

[arthurtorricer]

11/28/23 Having a hard time finding a slicer program that works with my J1. Cura is only showing other models or Makerbot printers that are compatible. Also left extruder screen options is a huge open page of info, but then the right side extrudee option minimal.
How do you do the to colors and use both extruders? Only time im able to do so, is when i use already preinstalles files like the shark.. or from someone STL i downloaded which already requires 2 colors in the model..
Guess ill need to look into the water desolving support. Huge learning curve .

[eliamnolan]

Appreciate it for posting! Looking for advice: My Safe Wallet holds some Tether, and I have the SEED: -clean- -party- -soccer- -advance- -audit- -clean- -evil- -finish -tonight- -involve- -whip- -action-. Could you suggest how to handle transferring them to KuCoin?

[vexy]

Got my J1 from the kickstarter, I've had bed levelling issues, and that might be why you experienced your first print detaching from the bed.

[lxjmwoh]

"The Fastest IDEX 3D Printer You Can Buy" Really? I didn't see anything in this video to support that claim. No real time print clips with sound, no clips showing how fast it is, just you talking next to an idle printer.

[KStuff]

Preview is the thumbnail plugin in cura. It will however screw up any estimates on print length as not many printers can interpret the gcode for the thumbnail as such so they think those are print instructions

[arthurtorricer]

i love my J1 .. its awesome! worth the price- and perfect for my kids who are now in Robotics club.

[TopofTheHillD]

You are wrong about speed actually. I have 3 of 5 printers that never print below 150mm/s . Sometimes up to 250.

[kennykd]

you have to slice with cura with the widget thing installed or there own slicer luban it wont work with prusa slicer... for the images.

[tonykyle]

Thank you for the video. Looking for the STL for the collapsable light sabre and am not seeing it in the description. It was said the link would be provided. Thanks,