Technology
What my machines can actually do.
My printers, build volumes, nozzle temperatures and achievable tolerances in detail. Check up front whether your part can be produced.
Printer fleet with build volumes and nozzle temperatures
| Machine | Manufacturer | Process | Build volume (x × y × z) (mm) | Nozzle max. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| X1 Carbon | Bambu Lab | FDM | 256 × 256 × 256 | 300 °C |
| X2DDual extruder, soluble support material | Bambu Lab | FDM | 256 × 256 × 260 | 300 °C |
| P1P | Bambu Lab | FDM | 256 × 256 × 256 | 300 °C |
| A2LLargest build volume in the fleet | Bambu Lab | FDM | 330 × 320 × 325 | 300 °C |
| A1 miniOne of them with an automatic plate changer | Bambu Lab | FDM | 180 × 180 × 180 | 300 °C |
| Plus 4 | QIDI Tech | FDM | 305 × 305 × 280 | 370 °C |
| U1Tool changer: 4 materials at once, without purge waste | Snapmaker | FDM | 270 × 270 × 270 | 300 °C |
| Photon Mono M5s ProUV LCD 14K · 16.8 × 24.8 µm XY resolution · 0.01 to 0.15 mm layer thickness | Anycubic | SLA | 223.78 × 126.38 × 200 | — |
| i3 MK3S+ | Prusa Research | FDM | 250 × 210 × 210 | 300 °C |
The resin printer works with light rather than a nozzle, which is why no value is given there.
Several machines mean more than capacity: if one goes down, it lowers the risk of a deadline slipping. And a small series runs in parallel instead of one after another.
Reverse engineering
I measure more precisely than I manufacture.
The broken original is scanned and turned into a clean CAD model. This is what makes producing a spare part without an existing drawing possible at all.
The best scanning accuracy is 0.03 mm, below the manufacturing tolerance of ±0.2 mm over 100 mm of edge length. The reference is therefore usually not the limiting factor.
Toucan
3DMakerPro
- Accuracy
- 0.03 mm (near)
- Resolution
- 0.05 mm (near)
- Object size
- 10 – 4,000 mm
- Colour texture
- yes
Moose Lite
3DMakerPro
- Accuracy
- 0.05 mm
- Resolution
- 0.10 mm
- Object size
- 15 – 1,500 mm
- Colour texture
- no
CR-Scan Lizard
Creality
- Accuracy
- 0.05 mm
- Resolution
- 0.10 mm (up to 0.2)
- Object size
- 15 – 2,000 mm
- Colour texture
- no
Production methods
Two things a single printer cannot do.
Unattended series production
An automatic plate changer works through 10 build plates in sequence, overnight and over the weekend, with nobody standing next to it. For small series this shortens lead times considerably, because no working day is lost between two parts.
Engraving down to bare metal
Two laser heads on one machine: 20 W for wood, acrylic and leather, 2 W infrared (1064 nm) for bare metal, where a diode laser is not enough. Type plates, scales and serial numbers end up on the part itself instead of on a sticker that peels off within a year. Engraving area 268 × 358 mm, focal spot down to 0.03 mm.
What matters is which machine suits the part.
That is why every job starts with the question of what the part has to withstand, and not with which machine happens to be free.