{"id":390,"date":"2016-10-20T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/?p=390"},"modified":"2023-09-19T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:19:29","slug":"ultimaker-3-looks-like-the-one-to-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/2016\/10\/20\/ultimaker-3-looks-like-the-one-to-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimaker 3 &#8212; looks like the one to get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was approved via capital equipment request to purchase a 3D printer this year for the fab space.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t yet bought it because we&#8217;ve been using a Makerbot loaned to us for a year by one of our faculty.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to get to use the Makerbot since I&#8217;d never done any 3D printing before.&nbsp; I feel like I have a much better sense of our needs now and am more comfortable choosing the right printer for our applications.<\/p>\n<p>This printer was just released earlier this week and looks like it is the one I&#8217;ll get.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-391\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/files\/2016\/10\/Ultimaker-3-1-681x1024.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-391\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/files\/2016\/10\/Ultimaker-3-1-681x1024-259x300.png\" alt=\"New Ultimaker 3\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/files\/2016\/10\/Ultimaker-3-1-681x1024-259x300.png 259w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/files\/2016\/10\/Ultimaker-3-1-681x1024.png 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 85vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Ultimaker 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimaker.com\/en\/products\/ultimaker-3\">Ultimaker 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ScfMl3u-uT8\">Ultimaker 3 Features video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ultimaker has long been known as a reliable, consistent performer in the high-end consumer grade printer market.&nbsp; Their new release appears to be targeted even more toward professional use.&nbsp; It includes some cool new features (like dual extrusion) which, when paired with the reliability of their printers, makes it a great machine for school use.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the highest tech machine out there but it&#8217;s a good performer with a lot of usable features.&nbsp; Unless something new appears in the next month or so we should have one here before the end of the term.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some others I&#8217;d considered:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zortrax.com\/printers\/zortrax-inventure\/\">Zortrax Inventure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/formlabs.com\/3d-printers\/form-2\/\">Formlabs Form2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dsystems.com\/shop\/cubepro\">3D Systems Cube Pro<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kudo3d.com\/titan2\/\">Kudo3D Titan 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raise3d.com\/pages\/raise3d-n2-plus\">Raise3D N2 Plus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was approved via capital equipment request to purchase a 3D printer this year for the fab space.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t yet bought it because we&#8217;ve been using a Makerbot loaned to us for a year by one of our faculty. It was great to get to use the Makerbot since I&#8217;d never done any 3D &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/2016\/10\/20\/ultimaker-3-looks-like-the-one-to-get\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ultimaker 3 &#8212; looks like the one to get&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}