Hadn’t heard of this. I’ll check it out. Fusion has been a bit intimidating. Ive made a few things in it but found it confusing and not intuitive like tinkercad.

I think Ive spent all my energy on learning Blender and not much left to dedicate to a better CAD program.

Sculpting. Yeah that requires a high end PC.

I have a 12g GPU. 64gb ram. Ddr5. Ryzen 7 CPU.

And it still struggles some times, mostly when using the bolean modifer (the one that combines parts or makes cutouts). Which is something you will use a lot for 3d printing model design.

If you aren’t sculpting, but just cad stuff. You should use a different program.

Blender can do some of that but why not use a software designed for cad. ?

Blender isn’t a cad program.

Also I posted a recent 3d project a month ago. (My lastest post). Most of the was made in blender.

I ended up with 3 blender files. 7gb each. For various parts.

Because of the complexity of the model and making it fit mechanical parts there was multiple versions of each part.

All high resolution.

I had to keep making new files cause after the files get around 8gb , then everything is a slog to do in the software. So I had a head file. A body file. And a inside parts file.

No one could make that cat clock on a PC with out high specs. Impossible.

Start with tinkercad. Upgrade to fusion 360. For sculpting , blender.

To use blender you need a high end PC. Like a gaming PC.

Fusion and blender are both incredibly complex softwares that do a lot of things and take a lot of invested time to learn but there are tons of tutorial videos and online communities for both.

Most people don’t want to use a 3rd party slicer or switch out the screen.

The Bambu studio slicer and screens that come with the printers both work well.

I really doubt they try to restrict filament brands. No one does that.

Their brand nozzles are the same price as 3rd party ones.

And personally I’ve used both and the Bambu brand ones are better. They are also designed to break instead of destroying the entire print head if there is some big obstruction.

Most people don’t want to tinker with their printers constantly to get them to work.

Or install 3rd party firmware.

They just want the printers to work. Bambu just works.

So many hours have I wasted trying to fix hardware problems on my ender 3 v3. Or tweak settings in the slicer that never fixed the issues.

So much time spent on reddit and YouTube, troubleshooting.

The Bambu just works. It always just works.

If I want to tinker with something, I’ll unpack my ender I’ve put away. But I don’t see that happening.

Sounds like you are someone who wants to tinker with the printer. In your case , no, a Bambu probably isn’t the right choice.

But for 90% of people looking to get into 3d printing, bambu is the right choice.

Most people lack mechanical skills or knowledge and get frustrated with sub par printers and don’t stay with the hobby.
Bambu allows more people to get into the hobby. Which means more unique filaments because there is a market for it. More creators. Because there is a market for it.

It’s a win win for everyone.

Really like my Bambu A1. I started with an ender. Unlike the Ender, Bambu just works. Some people don’t like that you can’t use other slicers with it, but the Bambu studio slicer is pretty great imo. Their makerworld.com website is a great place to get models. They have high incentives for creators so there is always new high quality stuff being posted.

Also their replacement parts are inexpensive from them directly. And they literally sell every single part. So you can replace any thing you need to. But you likely wont need to replace anything for a while.

They also have sensors on the printers for tons of features. Oh and their printers are designed to be ran through wifi. So no more packing cards back and forth between printer and computer.

Watch some YouTube reviews videos. You will be impressed.

Also when you print at 0.2 layer hight on a Bambu. The print quality looks better than 0.16 on other printers.

No lie.

I recommend Bambu to anyone.