Cel Robox 3D Printer Review

Cel Robox 3D Printer Review-The Robox is the first 3D printer that uses two nozzles to a source of filament, which enables it to print much faster from another machine. To get the best results, you must manually calibrate it through a difficult and lengthy process. Then the speed is not too important at the end as the print quality, it was disappointing and failed to score occurs more often than I would like to see. Depending on your skills and level of patience, Robox 3D can be a good experience or a bad one. I just found mine closer to the latter. Price sold at a cost of $ 1,499. In the UK, the £ 999.90, and in Australia AU $ 1,495.

Robox 3D Printer UK

Sophisticated Print-Head, there is no Support for PC-Less Printing

With two print nozzles, Robot dual extruder 3D printer as usual at the time you first took it out of the box. Looking closer, you'll notice something unusual, dual extruder machine while others require a filament spool for each nozzle, which Robox only use one (Cel prefer to call the roll, but the only difference is in terminology). Print this Robox Platform actively shares the same design as the Cube mechanism 3. That means that during the printing platform moves back and forth while print head moves to the side, top and bottom. I really like it for such a small printer, Robox has a large print platform, can create objects with sizes up to 8.3x5.9x3.9 inches (210x150x100mm).

The printer has a print removable bed, which is the top of the print platform. Which makes it easy to remove and clean, the necessary steps in the calibration process. The Robox connected to a computer via the USB port on the back. The printer does not have an SD card slot, touch screen or keypad controls each located on the unit itself, in addition to on / off. As a result, you can not use it without a computer. Everything needs to be done through the car software download, available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Overall, the software works well. You can change the settings, including aperture print nozzles themselves.The software also guides you through the calibration process.

Complex Calibration Procedure

Manual calibration of the Cel 3D printer is always complicated and time consuming, but the process Robox worse than usual, thanks to the words of vague clues. Adjust the distance between the nozzle and the bed molding is also difficult to get right. Per the instructions, you first sheet of plain paper in bed printing, and nozzle will move down to handle it. Then you use software to slowly raise the piecemeal printhead to find the lowest position which allows the paper to slide freely under the nozzle without touching it.

Filaments Exclusive and Third Party

Raw material for the filament is fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printing, which is the technology used in Robox and most consumer-grade 3D printers. Think of them as the equivalent of an ink cartridge in the inkjet printer. Available in a variety of colors, they are easily melted, rapidly congealing plastic string that is fed through the printhead during printing. Printhead then heats and extrudes plastic melt through the nozzle (extruder) to print platform below to create 3D objects. The good news about Robox is that it works with third-party filaments of the same standard (1.75mm). You can also save the filament windings third parties outside the roll holder smart, or you can roll your own rolls. You will lose the reels feature a third party, but the printer will still work. Note, according to Cel, using filaments third parties will void the warranty. If you choose to buy Cell filament windings, they are not too costly. Each roll costs about $ 40 and includes 245 meters (268 yards) from the filament string that weighs slightly less than 1 kg (2 pounds), enough to print some objects.

Achievement

As mentioned above, the printer requires computer software to work through the car. The software enables standard manipulation of 3D model files including scaling, layer thickness, fill pattern, degree of filling hollow or solid. You can use software to connect to local accounts MyMiniFactory, which is similar to open source Thingiverse. Alternatively, you can load a model file that is already stored in the computer. Like all other printing software I have worked with, the car supports standard 3D modeling file. When you choose when printing, the first software will then transfer information to the printer. Depending on the size and complexity of the 3D models, this process takes 10 minutes to complete. Afterwards, print your own, even if you are away from the computer, thanks to the small storage cards in the back. At any time, the software can reconnect to the printer and will display the status of work at the moment, allow you pause and resume or cancel the job. The printer does not seem to save a 3D file from previous work on the internal storage.

So, if the print file at all anymore, you have to restart the print job from the beginning. There There is no question that the robot is the fastest, especially for objects without a lot of fine detail. Prints iPhone 6 standard case, for example, it only takes 45 minutes on Robox, full 30 minutes less than most other printers. On the other hand, you will not see much improvement when printing more complex objects. Basically, the printer can avoid using a nozzle that is dedicated to details add, the faster the print speed will be.

However, the speed is only half the story of a successful 3D printer. Print quality is equally important, and it is there that Robox not impressed. Generally the print quality to be a notch below that of other printers, such as the Cube 3 or DeeGreen. For example, if I print an object using a normal quality setting, it will come out no better than if I had used the draft to the other printer settings. And because the higher the quality you select, the longer it takes to complete the printing, the lack of quality is almost fully offset the increase in the speed of this Robox.