We saw a lot of awesome innovation in the 3D Printing landscape this year, but what do I think will happen in 2023?
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
3:58 The war for the prosumer market will begin... again
6:00 An increasing need for "easy to use" CAD
7:16 Companies will embrace 3D Printing to alleviate supply chain issues
8:25 Industrial manufacturing will become more accessible
9:50 Hobbiests will have to take plastic recycling into their own hands
11:31 Final thoughts
My prediction is there will be at least 8 new Ender 3 models in 2023 with only very slight differences between them.
My prediction is that when your prediction comes true, I will be just as confused at the array of new models as I am at the array of current models.
Creality just gives you MOST of the printer. You gotta finish it.
@@VioFax You are correct. Why Creality did not put the Ender 3 S1 Plus as a high temperature machine is beyond my understanding. Just using the S1 with a larger print bed and then charging more for it than the S1 Pro is IMHO nothing but criminal. If I can somehow get a S1 Plus for cheap then I will fit the S1 Pro print head to have something of value. Currently price is a rip-off.
But the market of turning it into something that works is huge. Just look at Ali express.
i bought ender 6 rip me its broken now after some mods and btw i buy ender 6 without any thinking 2 seconds later ender 7
Another thing i think is an insane innovation is that i got some in ear monitors recently, and when i looked up a logo on the box i found a company that 3d printed entire iem shells in resin. I couldn't even tell it was printed, it was just an organically shaped seamless part. Very impressive.
What was the company?
@@eXe09 TruthEar
@Marcel Mayer I see, makes sense
I got my dad a 3d printer for christmas last year, before that he was modeling a few things and having me print them off. Now that he has his own printer it feels like I was holding him back, visiting him this christmas to see all the practical prints he's made (mainly jigs for wood working or helping with home renovation) and to see how proud he was for doing it himself makes me think that once you get people used to the idea of "oh I could bang out a model like that and have it on my desk the next day" will push a lot more people to try 3d printing and hopefully push thier creativity
It's incredibly satsifying in my experience.
I think one of the big things that has happened this year and will continue to happen is the improvement and innovation in slicing. I hope to see the refinement of non-planar techniques and proper integration of such methods into mainstream slicing software. With more eyes and hands on 3D printing, more people are experimenting and pushing the limits of what is possible with the hardware. Exciting times.
Yeah. Slicing right now is definetly not taking advantage of the 3-dimensionality of printers. Also Hardware accelerated slicing would be nice for the complex stuff
@@mcbergstedt Well 3d printing with the full potential of 3d is applicable in only rare edge cases but it still would be nice to easily detect areas where it can be applied
One more slicer innovation coming in 2023 to Cura and PrusaSlicer is the new generation of tree supports. Cura already has a prototype build that's working very well. It seems like slicing innovation is finally taking off as for so long it was pretty much the same, then we got aracne and now new tree supports.
It's unfair to call slicing 'post-processing' when it's so important to the properties of the finished product, compared to subtractive processes.
@@Adomas_B the classic one that is incredibly awful with planar slicing is aerofoils for model aircraft etc... There is work on being able to print the top layers as non planar with varying amounts of standard planar layers for the infill
My dad (76) started using an Ender 3v2 for the first time this month. I used your classic explanation of "this is a hobby and not a tool". For his first print he chose a HO scale model that requires 25 parts to be printed, not the easiest but he's getting there. Had a little bit of trouble with bed leveling at the start. The look on his face when using this machine is magic.
I bet the look on your dad’s face was similar to my boys’ faces with every new print in the first week.
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It's a tool, and a great one even. If you print useless crap that will just lay around yeah, it's a hobby. Except for some xyz calibration cubes, everything I print has a use, whether I have to design it or find it online.
I gave my dad (71) an assortment of 3d printed tools for Christmas last year. He bought his own printer a few days later and now makes custom ASA brackets and mounts for ham radio antennas.
That is a great can-do attitude. HO models with an Ender 3? Give him a tablesaw next year and he'll probably try to build a rocketship. Imagine what he could do with the right tools for the job, like a Saturn2.
Bambu is a disruptor. Cura is great, but there is still no justification for Ultimaker prices. I think 2023 is the year people get finally fed up with Creality and their business model of new poorly finished printers every few weeks.
Dang just got a creality......
After Ultimaker sold their soul to MakerBot the company is dead to me
@@religionisapoison2413 Just go over it with a fine tooth comb.
Ultimaker and Prusa are already in ruts so deep down that it may very soon may be their graves.
@@hendrikjbboss9973 I still love and constantly use my Prusa, but I have a Bambu Lac X1C ordered instead of the Prusa XL.
My work purchased a Prusa at my instance after I got tired of wearing out my ender 3 for work related things. Last month, we ordered a dozen Logitech TAP units, but the Metal Wall Mount bracket ($155 CAD) was backordered for 12 weeks. I whipped up design that prints in under 2 hours, consumes a buck of plastic, and fits better, has better cable management and is 99% cheaper. The printer paid itself off in ONE fix.
The big problem with single hobbyists recycling their own stuff is time. It takes a huge time investment to get into even the simpler methods of re-using 3d printing plastics at home. I think a way to go might be community efforts, maybe related to maker spaces, where you can bring together things like failed PLA prints as a group and work with larger batches of plastic of the same type.
THIS. I was writing on scales a while back, and unless you are a MAJOR prosumer type person, community/maker space scale makes way more sense. Either as a Makerspace or a Toolshare kind of thing, taking the cost and spreading it over 10-30 people really makes things interesting.
Yeah, I wish a local maker space would have a communal filament recycler. I don't know if one would ever pay for itself if I bought one, but for 20-50 people each using it about once a month it would be a wonderful investment. Unfortunately I live in a rural area, and I'll not likely find a large enough group of hobbyists to pool resources.
PLA isn’t worth the trouble. I print almost exclusively ABS and I can use the scrap supports to make a slurry for finishing, glueing, even pouring into molds. Almost no waste at this point.
@@origGooglieWooglie Makes Sense. On a related note, could one “wet spin” / extrude ABS from Solution? I was considering this for Recycling Water Soluble Support Materials; i forgot about ABS! (The process is essentially the same as how “reformed cellulose”, like Rayon, Viscose, “Bamboo Silk” etc are made i would imagine)
@@ericlotze7724 I doubt it. You’d have to dissolve it, then dehydrate as you reformed the filament. I can’t imagine a hobbyist could get anything uniform out of it.
Proper recycling of failed prints or purges would be amazing and something I'd spend money on. Output needs to be printable filament so I can actually use it. I also want to see the end of filament on spools. Supply a master spool with a new printer and print more spools if necessary. Card board is dirty/dusty so not an alternative.
Filabot seems to be making headways, but the full suite runs in the neighborhood of $14,000
IMO a direct pellet extruder would be the way to recycle failed prints, the problem is finding a way to process the failed prints
using a filament dryer then sending the parts through a blender tend to work well. a sawsall or vibrating saw to break down the bigger scraps. a good blender should have no problems breaking them down into small enough bits to work for a recycler. then bagging them up so they can stay dry until use shouldn't be too bad. what I am doing is storing my scraps in boxes. when I am ready (after getting a recycler of course) I will dry out the scraps in batches, put them through the blender, then put them into bags with silicate packets. then once I have enough to do a couple kilograms worth I will put it through and get a few spools worth
Pla failed prints are great to reuse with a soldering iron to make new basic objects or add on to new failed/deliberately incomplete prints. I am almost running out of enough failed prints using this trick. Another possible trick is to pour melted prints into a hole of a no infill print to make it injection mold strong at the price of 15% dense print. PET bottle to fillament converter would be far more useful than PLA recycling as it can be made cheaper and you will never run out of PET bottle supply anyways.
how is cardboard "dirty/dusty" i've found it to be the best opition and way nicer then mater spools
Prosumer race is 100% accurate prediction. I have to assume AnkerMake & Bambu really have the legacy brands rethinking what they will be producing next. Funny you mention the easier CAD… actively working on some content around that for 2023! Also… soooooo close to 1mill 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤘
Easier cad? sign me up! :D
Do I have to start following you too 😅 (no worries, I *have* watched quite some videos)
AnkerMake isn't really a new player, though. AnkerMake is just a 3D printer trading name for Anker (Anker Innovations) which has been around since about 2011. Anker caused a big privacy and security stir earlier this year due to their Eufy brand of "no cloud" internet connected cameras which were actually uploading images and video to the cloud without user consent to train a facial recognition AI.
to be fair, a voron can print faster than either the X1C or the anker but they requires a lot of tuning, and if i want a fast printer, i would take a core xy printer, chuck a HF hotend, install klipper or any other firmware with IS and call a day, but again, it needs tuning, for me is a very cool adventure, and i cover some of those things in my channel, but i understand that for some users are a no go
Man I'm an engineer who uses CAD every day but I'd love an easy solution for personal stuff!
Our makerspace is setting up a new plastics area to melt down failed PLA prints and make new stuff out of them. I am itching to give it a go, and to make one of those bottle recycling machines too. I think having molds for very useful things in the plastics area will help, like hooks that can accept a Command strip, buttons for the sewing area to use, assortment boxes for organising little bits, etc. I’m excited!
The US and Canada has been shipping over 90% of they’re collected recyclable materials to the Philippines to be dumped in their landfills and also to Africa to be dumped in landfills. The beautiful part of this whole scenario is that the citizens are being charged a recycling fee for the privilege of having the recycling bins. One has to love it.
I really hope to see innovation in a more direct recycling of 3d prints. So many prints iv done simply for testing, would be great to be returned back to a usable filament for more testing and I hope to see this idea expanded in the community.
A cheap or easy to make device to turn old 3d prints in to filament would be a cool project
Love your enthusiasm for 3d printing and your fast-paced presentation style. Very engaging. Keep up the good work!!
I just discovered this hobby. Picked up an Ender 3 pro for $100 at microcenter. Loving it so far. There's so much to learn but thankfully the community has blazed all the trails already so there's a wealth of knowledge out there for us beginners to take advantage of. Even though I'm late to the game, I'm excited to see what's next. 👍
I'd love to see filament makers have a service to send back recyclable material to be re-used to make new filament. I'd love to see larger scale DLP resin printers, something in the 13"+ sized screen. I'd love to see larger scale wash & cure stations for the M3 Max, Jupiter sized printers.
The next race to the bottom should be 3D scanners. With Apple integrating LiDAR there is a ton of potential for quickly building a parts database. As far as your list, I think the CAD is what will make 3DP go completely mainstream. My 65 yo parents just asked me to print a household replacement part, but it's something they could easily do if they knew the software. It needs to be something that seamlessly integrates simple shapes, photogrammetry, and slicing with an elementary level UI. I know, everybody's dream. Even myself, I don't like to spend more than an hour with the calipers reverse engineering a simple clip or cover. All the tech is out there, it just needs to be combined by a design oriented team, similar to Apple and the iPhone.
someone made a decent 3d scanner with an xbox kinect
Man imagine a world where you scan something in 5 minutes and get an easily modifiable step file out the end for under 1000 bucks. That sounds brilliant. Totally not possible right now, but that's the dream.
What we DON'T need, however, is a locked down proprietary product (it should at minimum be able to export meshes) or something that is oversimplified to the point of unusability.
A wiki of 3D parts and shapes for printers.
Was just about to comment this. One thing ive been waiting for is a decent quality 3d scanner. And honestly it has boggled my mind why there is still a massive price jump between the toy scanners (sub 1000$), and the proper high res pro units (8000$+). Im sure everyone's expectation of quality scans will vary. But ive been keeping a long eye on the industry. The only units that are viable for accurate scanning and precision are still the expensive commercial units. Shinning3D just released their Einstar unit which is a 1000$ unit, and i gave it a spin. Yes its easily one of the best
Superb thank you for your dedication to the community
Excited for the New Year and what it could hold. Enjoy the new years, look forward to videos in the New year.
As a math and science teacher here in the United States and a big fan of your videos, I would love to see an in-depth couple of videos on how to make and use PET bottles as filament. It might not reduce your personal carbon footprint, but I think the educational value would far exceed any recycling value. I would absolutely hand this to some students as a project if I knew there was a concise and reliable resource that I could direct students to. But right now I just don’t have the ability to wade through all the subreddits and Facebook pages and wiki-how’s to get down to what I should actually have them do.
Wouldn't feasibility research be part of their project? There is already a ton of information out there.
Oh man, you're still the best objective resource on consumer 3d printing. Love it. And it's refreshing to hear.
Thanks for this Angus. I agree, thank God the 'race to the bottom' seems to have hit...bottom and that this year definitely looks exciting for the 3D printing maker space. Although I have an XL on pre-order instead of buying an x1, it appears that Bambu Lab, in particular, has excited the community (thanks in a HUGE part to you and other influencers) which could have only made competitors sit up and pay attention. This can only mean great things for hobbiests like me. I cannot wait to see the leaps that are made this year. Happy new year mate.
Happy New Year Angus. Keep it going for 23,. you are awesome!
When does a Ender3 stop being a Ender3? How many parts do you need to replace/mod for it to no longer be a Ender?
The 3D Printer of Theseus
@@DaimyoD0 I came here for Theseus comment. :D
I personally find it interesting that this seems to be considered the year where industrial services become widespread in availability. Companies like xometry and protolabs have had CNC and injection molding services that were reasonably priced for the better part of 5 or 6 years now. What seems to have actually changed was the visibility of these types of service with the increase in competitors, along with aggressive sponsorships for the new players through the KZhead maker scene. Regardless, it's great to see these services becoming more competitive.
Btw, in addition to the above services, a lot of makers seem to miss the versatility that sheet metal parts can offer. Most of the same services I mentioned as well as those in this video have sheet metal as well, and some smaller names like OSH Cut offer fast automated ordering and lower prices.
In the highschool robotics community, SendCutSend has become super popular. They have a wide variety of materials and really good service.
@ThatGuy Makes Things : I think you hit the nail on the head... visibility is what is making the difference. The KZhead connection, with positive comment from "trusted" people, combined with a good close-up look at quality examples, topped off with very low cost first time pricing... They somehow manage to feel familiar when compared with trying to wade through an online order form that seeks details for a manufacturing process you know little about. Clever stuff!
Great ideas man! I'm with you on all of them... And I think the next year should be a good one. There seems to be more and more voices speaking up, as well as networks growing or even already established, with people that can or would find solutions to all this and more. I think the key is reaching out and getting the message out to people that may be on or just outside the peripherals... who may not have thought of any of this, but very well could have the contacts, resources, or knowledge to get the ball rolling and make these things happen. I think the future looks bright... so I'm staying optimistic. Your channel rocks by the way. You've put out a lot of really interesting and useful content. So, thanks for that. Cheers, and happy new year!
Always appreciate your videos, Angus. Thank you.
I am really looking forward to the introduction of more DLP style resin printers in the hobbyist space in 2023. Mainly from the longevity of the device itself standpoint, Hopefully no more replacing of the LCD after a few thousand hours.
I'm was looking to buy anycubic dlp but it's only 4k iirc
@@OpaqueWindow Doesn't really matter tbh. Look at a side-by-side between its prints and 8k. DLP really changes things, and looking at it in terms of pure 'resolution' isn't necessarily correct.
Laser scanning is also something I could imagine popping up, someone taking their time to design something based on a laser printer's imaging head could have a future (...if Formlabs doesn't have or isn't licensing a patent for that, since that's exactly how their machines work). I would say using older laser printer parts for this would be quite viable, change the laser to the classic 405nm, a LOT of electronics engineering into it, and we've eliminated the consumable LCD.
@@OpaqueWindow if you have the money go with the anycubic D2 DLP ( i would probably skip their 1st generation DLP , the non D2). Resolution isn't everything. LCD's have a slight light bleed through, even the 8K LCD printers. This causes slight rounding of transition between edges, especially when using anti-aliasing/bluring to get rid of print lines. DLP does not have this problem, so you get better pop-out of details even when it is lower resolution. There is a youtube video of side by side comparisons of the D2 DLP vs 8K printer and the D2 is just as good if not better than the 8K.
I also expect more DLP's to come to market. I also expect text input to 3D model AI generation in 2023 as well. (a number of companies already have 3D model AI generation, but haven't brought it to consumers yet, such as google, nvidia and theres a research team that made one as well.
Great video as always...My Bambu X1 Carbon arrives in 4 days...for me it was a combination of all the things that I am trying to cobble together on my other printers (enclosed chamber, onboard camera, color change, web interface, auto level/ lidar confirmation, etc)...I am more than a hobbyist, using Solidworks to design, then printing prototype parts for fit test before sending designs to CAM. I welcome the new guard...it is truly time to start changing the way we print.
Nice! Throw some parts at it using the cf-pa or a good ABS, its performance with these materials is really winning me over.
@@MakersMuse I have run the CF... beautiful results, final parts created in-house now!
CONGRATS ON 1 MIL subs plus ty for your content you have helped me down the rabbithole i am now in...
Happy New Year to you and yours, Angus. Can't wait to see what you 'll share with us in 2023 !
And to you ! I've got lots planned, hopefully it works out better than this year :)
The ability to recycle plastic bottles into filament is one of the main motivators I have for buying a 3D printer in the first place. I want to be able to recycle plastic into something useful in my own home. So I'd love to see you do a video on that.
I still have yet to find the actual device that does this.
@@samualwilliamson1187 TL;DR I think you have to make one. Look up a guide. "recycle plastic bottles into 3D printing filament." Maybe Function [dot] 3d on KZhead could help. -- Generally, I think you have to make it. I first learned about the process from an account called Function [dot] 3d. He pulls the bottles into strips, splitting the plastic between two bearings offset in height, mounted on a 3D printed base. There are other processes to do this with knives or razor blades; it is sometimes used as cordage in the bushcraft community. I think this process is done one bottle at a time. He winds this long strip of PETE (or other bottle plastic) onto a spindle, and then feeds this through a modified hotend-I think just a regular one that would go on a printer, but machined to make the nozzle wider. I think there is a part before the hotend so that the strip of bottle plastic goes in straight, and a part after, which cools the filament off, but I'm not sure about that part, kind of guessing. Then finally, the filament is wound on to another spindle, which turns slowly under the power of an electric motor. I don't know if there is a way to bond the strips of bottle plastic together, presumably a spindle of only one plastic bottle's worth of filament wouldn't be all that useful. This is just my understanding of the process anyway. I haven't done it yet. I'm very new to 3D printing. But this is the entry-point of my interest.
@@DaimyoD0 one bottle is more than enough to make a small print, but splicing is as easy as lighting a cig anyways. Their main problem is the """fillament""" has a very unpredictable density, as they only soften the strip and roll it up into a tube that has a hole dependent on the imperfections of the strip thickness and width. I tried to make it myself and at 240degs it did exactly that and at 260 degs it actually started melting and trying to form a solid core, but the whole thing is as bubbly as a reptile skin. I am still not sure if there is a way to achieve consistent density independent of input strip size and shape.
@@two_number_nines Thank you for your input. I kind of was wondering if it was essentially rolling the strip over into a tube, or at least not melting it all the way through completely. I have always kind of figured that the filament made from this process would be primarily useful for things like prototyping, or making nonstructural but utilitarian parts. Because I figured any prints made out of it would look bad cosmetically and be relatively weak. But, at the same time, it is essentially free, at least it is for me, having no bottle buyback program in my area, and having a genuine suspicion of whether plastic bottles in single stream get recycled at all. So I figured if you can replace your good filament on some test prints, you're effectively saving money and reducing plastic in the landfill, which would make it worth it. So obviously it probably wouldn't be worth it to get into 3D printing for plastic recycling _alone._ But there are plenty of things that have broken around my house that had to be thrown away because a replacement part wasn't available, but if I had a 3D printer, it could have been saved. I think there is still an environmentally friendly argument to be made there, despite the admitted environmental cost of filament production, disposal of failed prints and support material, and the manufacturer of the printer itself. Which could also be partially mitigated by buying used, I think. Plus I just think it's really cool to be able to make your own stuff lol
@@DaimyoD0 The utility of some of the parts you can print is so large that the filament cost is far from your main concern when printing them. If you want to print decorative objects and buy a roll you pay for the material purity and consistency of manufacturing and the plastic itself is a gift. Also I have noticed filament prices have started to drop and I only expect them to go lower. If you want to build functional machines, electronics cases, parts of machines and so on there is no reason to wait a day more for material cost saving techniques. Any fillament recycling machine would cost you the time, effort and money to buy at least 10 rolls. I have been printing quite a few complicated projects and have bags full of failed prints, yet I have barely used up 3 spools. If you are hyped to print action figures and top 10 christmas gift compilations you are heading for a disappointment. It quickly will disappoint you how much effort it takes to print out a stupid toy. Many have went on this path and many have failed by printing for about 2 years, then their printer either collects dust or they buy 3 more and in 5 years there is a major garage sale. 3d printers for mechanical engineers are like a soldering iron for electronics engineers in the way they improve life, but people that just want to consume a seemingly endless supply of cheap toys will find more joy playing a videogame than bothering with this.
Recycling plastic has always been one of my main reasons for getting into 3D Printing, but I admit, after several years I still haven't done anything about it.
Same here! I even bought a filastruder and filawinder kit which has very much let me down in how much tinkering it needs in order to work. I still haven't managed to get a usable length of PLA from it. I can't wait for a desktop recycling setup that I can throw shredded prints at and get a decent filament from it.
Yeah, I really want some filament manufacturer to start some kind of "drop off" of failed prints etc and give you a discount on new filament depending on how much material you returned. Somewhere along the line of 1kg of failed PLA = %20 off on a new 1k spool of PLA or whatever. Just so it's worth while for both sides to prevent the failed prints just ending up in land fills, because recycling is mainly just a lie.
I run our 3D print lab here at work we primarily used for Rapid prototyping parts. But recently I have been printing plastic parts that have lead times of over a year. We build large plastic extrusion machines and it's interesting to see 3D printed parts being used to get these jobs completed. I Love it!!! great resume builder too. Keep up the hard you do as I have learned alot from your channel.
It's now August '23 as I write this and guess what, when I recently saw the capabilities of the Bambu X1 Carbon I just went straight out and bought one! (My 3rd/previous printer was a Zortrax so I'm not new to this space) I love it!! If I was new I would probably start with the P1S.
I m 12 years old and my parents bought me a 3d printer for my 11 birthday and since then I m literally a pro in fusion 360 I've learnt with videos the only thing im missing is the spacial vision , one month a go I bought a Ikea skadis to fit my maker space and have already designed a profesional looking parts such as a cool looking duck take holder Dremel holder pliers holder calipers and Allan keys holder and now im working on the screw driver holder most of them I had to do a v2 but now im so proud of them.
Hi Angus, as a newby to 3d printing and also being an OAP, I tend to make lots of prototypes which end up in the bin before I reach the final build, so it'd be really nice to be able to melt all the prototypes down and reuse the plastic again. Be great if you could put some thought into how to construct your own filament machine.
@Stephen Gittins : The difference between a Newby OAP and the experts (except Angus, of course!) is that the experts don't tell you how many "prototypes" they made! 😉
I think you are totally right, I been watching your videos for more than a year and yesterday I ordered my first 3d printer and eager to build a PET recycle machine to save on filament (yeah I'm cheap) and hope for the software part to evolve to a free and open source with a big supportive community. Thanks for the video and best of wishes.
I want to get into creating my own filament from discarded parts. I get the gist of the videos I can find on KZhead currently and the mechanisms don't look too complicated. I just wish they'd go into more details about how each step of creating a set up can fail. If you end up making a series I'd love to see how you work around issues and maybe even optimize others. Thanks for the awesome videos always!
Software is the true underdog here. Slicer and firmware innovation has pushed existing hardware beyond what we could do just a few years ago. I predict better pipelines (organic supports, multicolor stl painting, cloud slicing, cheap wifi computers for printers, etc)
Very true! We've already seen so many improvements and there's a lot of experimental stuff just begging to be incorporated.
a PET video would be great. My biggest concern has been whether it can be printed in a bedroom with light ventilation as PLA. i'm sure a lot of kids will start getting into 3d printing with this as a project since recycling is more focused at schools than ever before.
It smells a bit of cooked “bread” I do it a lot in a dedicated space in my shop
Love your MIDI keyboard setup :) Let's hope for continued innovation and usability improvements including print materials with UV protection and strength. I enjoy printing functional parts for model RC aircraft and automotive applications such as LED light bar mounts.
Great vid. Would love to see you build your own plastic bottle to filament maker... Not necessarily as a guide for my future self, I just like your style of honestly going through what's goid, what's bad, and what's the bottom line. Have a fun 2023!
The cad software is definitely already happening. I've been looking at FreeCad over auto desk products because the whole license and the chance they'll just do unsavory stuff, then have to go learn another program like Unity did. The mobile app for fusion has been in a few shorts and makes cad look easy as hell
Taking free features and charging a license for them. Limiting the size of the cloud storage unless you pay for an "upgrade". Removing the ability to export to non-proprietary formats from the basic offering - again, requiring an "upgrade". Deleting support for an unpopular OS. Moving to a monthly subscription cloud-only service, so "your" files are hostage to the internet quality and their accounts department. I use FreeCad. It is not good (yet), but it cannot be taken away!
@@SittingDuc the whole 'cloud storage only' was a deal breaker. I am a consultant and I am required by certain laws to maintain control of our work - Cloud storage is simply a no-no. While working at home, I find the idea of cloud storage fine, when it is my option, but a complete non-starter as a requirement.
I would definitely like to see a bottle recycler/ PLA scrap recycler build from you. Seems fun and you definitely print enough to make one worth it.
I would actually love to see it too.
Me 3!
Me Four
I'm rooting for the latter. Lot's of people have made bottle recyclers already
That transition into the pcb advert was smooth as hell.
Lol, just like the service but they have sponsored a previous vid!
Thank you Angus! You are essential for the hobby side of this industry!!!
Regarding #5 -- one of the things that the toolchain for 3D printers should be adding is ... a way to emboss the material code of your 3D print on the print as a part of the slicer. If we can have a myriad of infill patterns, non-planar toolpaths, and other innovations ... why not a slicer that simply embosses either of: - the ASTM Resin Identification Code - AKA the 3-arrowed triangle symbol with the number in it - the industrial material codes between angle brackets for instance - >PA6.6< - Nylon And... if it's not the responsibility of the slicer to know the material used, then it's time to make that info known when you're passing the model through the toolchain to the 3D printer. We're printing with recyclable materials... we should be marking the parts so someone other than the person making it can identify what it's made of, to give it better than a snowball's chance in hell of getting recycled when the time comes.
My dude, imagine the process of some poor sanitation worker sifting through a box of 1000 failed benchies trying to read microscopic codes so they can be recycled to save a billionth of a cent. It's just not viable from a straight up energy use perspective, let alone economic. The proper way to "recycle" plastic is to burn it in a controlled incinerator environment to recover the energy. With proper temperature and scrubbers, toxic emissions can be virtually eliminated.
I just got the Anker printer in and it's been amazing. It's a huge upgrade from a hobbyist kit style machine where almost everything was manual. Loving how easy it is. Sure, it won't be printing exotic materials, but I already have the tools, space, and ability to cast aluminum through either a lost PLA method or compacted green sand casting. If I really need a part in metal, I can make that happen. Where 3D printing shines is its ability to make intricate internal geometry that doesn't require access by humans. I'm just an artist btw, so making something that works for mass production isn't something I care about.
It's great to see you, Angus. Glad you're still covering 3d printers
I'm a Blender user. So i can navigate my way around 3D modeling. In Terms of wast prints, I've seen people build good quality shredders in videos, that they toss their waste, and no longer wanted prints into and re-spool them, or use the shredded wastes in home made mold injectors. It's pretty crazy of what people can do nowadays.
I thoroughly agree that we need to be a lot more aware and accountable for the plastics that we use in our projects and what the end of life looks like. I’m glad that other makers are having these thoughts and considerations, I hope we can find a more significant replacement that is biodegradable.
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Pcb printing would be a huge step for the reprap community too. I mean without acid baths, etc. There are some faild attempts, but I hope someone find a good way to solve the problems with it.🤞
Are you talking about 3d printing the pcb substrate or printing the copper pattern onto it?
I don't think so. As an electronics engineer I sometimes used to make my own PCBs, but with $2 PCBs from China there's no point.
@@michaelnoble2432 I get the price point but the shipping time sucks. Been waiting three weeks now for my last PCB order from PCBGOGO. And I really didn't need 10 PCB's for $5.00 at this point in time.
Great video with some well thought out content, thanks. I agree with everything you've said, especially the need for easy to use CAD software. I think that when someone nails it, it will be the catalyst for massive growth in the 3d printing industry. Once people are able to model their own parts, the journey to 'a 3d printer in every home' will accelerate exponentially.
I work for a transit agency. This year a coworker and I took our company-wide 3D printing hobby group from 6 people to 95. We developed the momentum to start incorporating 3d printing into our continuous improvement program, and supply chain mitigation projects are already in progress. We're planning a 3d printing open house in 1st quarter 2023 to introduce 3d printing to even more peers. 2023 will definitely see momentum like this increase.
For the CAD, as well as easy-to-use for beginners, I'm hoping there will be a viable more sophisticated CAD that doesn't cost a huge amount. Which might also happen in 2023, FreeCad is aiming for a "V1.0" release which hopefully means it will be a lot better than it has been - so far it's been cumbersome and buggy, most consensus I see is that it's not quite ready. I'm hoping "1.0" means, for the first time, it's own developers regard it as ready for actual use rather than being an in-development project that the "0.20" refers to. On the recycling end, the PET bottles feels a little gimmicky, and doesn't make use of failed prints or other scraps. There are filament making machines out there, but they're quite pricey - for now a small niche. Maybe that can be the next "race to the bottom," if mass produced they should be able to be made very cheaply given their simplicity. Some sort of shredder might be the more costly part though, as that would have to be quite powerful and robust to chew up 3D printed stuff, especially solid parts or big blobs.
Master Electrician here. I do a lot of work in commercial and industrial settings (working with cnc machines etc). 3d printing machines jumped on my radar this year and what an awesome surprise to see how cheap they are. From a hardware standpoint, there isn’t much too them. Definitely an easy machine to troubleshoot. All the magic is in the software! My second printer arrives today and I gotta say for $200 these machines are well worth the money. I fully support them driving each others prices down to compete for our business 😂. I can’t wait to see what 2023 has in store for all of us!
Home CNC, and I’m including 3D printing, laser cutting, and desktop CNC milling, and etc. is a game changer. Imagination printers like this mean that we can quickly and easily (relatively) knock out small test pieces to see if our designs work. We have small scale R&D and manufacturing available IN OUR HOMES.
I agree with your predictions! :) - we have been using 3D printed parts for work since 2019.
Got an Ender 3 for Christmas, enjoying it. Still dialing in the first layer, but I'm improving my process. As far as CAD goes - Fusion 360 looks nice, but looks insanely expensive if I ever want to use it commercially. I've been learning FreeCAD for items that require strict dimensions, but I have a little bit of Blender and Wings3D experience, and they export STL files as well. I definitely think there's a need for simpler software; FreeCAD was a royal pain to learn.
Fusion isn't bad for commercial use. $545 a year.
That's funny. Fusion is the bargain CAD...😁 Similar offerings from other vendors go from 2500-20K/year. I have been a SOLIDWORKS user since 95 but I am so tired of their ridiculous prices and lack of consumer level options that I may switch to Fusion permanently. Autodesk's start-up/hobbyist license is by far the best in the industry and I hope it crushes Dassault for their elitist attitudes and for turning SW into the PTC, SW formed to replace. If we make money, they make money. A single person startup cannot afford 4K in software to test ideas that may of may not pan out. Autodesk has that figured out, and I hope they stick with it. Let me know if you find something else that is good. Onshape is pretty good, but doesn't have a low cost offering. There is a free version, but your files are forced to be public which makes it unusable for startups, and maybe even some hobby use. Some of us don't want our ideas public domain. As for the other CAD I would love to see other competitors, but of what I have seen, those low cost or free softwares are vastly inferior.
I think the linkstage 3 branch of FreeCAD is a bit easier to use.
Insanely expensive? At $545 a year. Lol. Have you priced the alternative?
Blender has some quite good CAD add-ons as well as some excellent 3d printing Add ons. Very Much worth the look.
I miss 123Design, it was my first program to use and designed enough stuff and finally feel I could get a 3D printer rather than spending the extra dollars on printing services (it was expensive back then). Recycling is definitely something I looking forward to, unfortunately our local community is not really interested. Few of our libraries have maker space and allow access of 3D printers for free (as long as the print is done within opening hours). But show little interested in putting in a recycle effort.
Yes! We need a new 123Design...
I have zero experience with 3D printing and got a Bambu Labs X1C last week. I opened the box, unpacked it and printed a 1/14 scale Semi truck body for an RC truck I’m building. I used all the stock profiles and have had no issues as of yet. Incredibly happy with the product so far and glad a company has started making a product easier to use for people like me
Thank You for preparing our minds to be stretched in 2023, I always appreciate your delivery and energy. I began the 3 D Print hobby about 7 years ago with an M3D plastic printer and Fusion 360. Is has been a wonderful ride as you know. I needed a Smoke Housing for my Model Trains. There was nothing in the scale of the train my Dad gave me in 1957. S Scale 1/64. I make several adaptions of the Metal Smoke housing with 3D printed parts sort of a Hybrid Smoke Housing half metal half plastic. But then I bought a returned 10S Pro and added a Micro Swiss Hot end and Hardened steel nozzle to print high temp filaments CF PETG etc. Now I could design and make the whole smoke housing. Then with PCB I designed and build the Smoke Lid to include a thermistor and LM317 for Temp controlled Voltage to the Heater. Then The whole assembly was modified to accept a series of adaptors that find allowed its use in ever steam engine model for my S Gauge trains. WOW! In the course of making more parts i tried Scanners, fail Maker Bot $750 was junk. I looked at small more detail capable printers, looked at Resin Printers but chemical bother me. Then back to Micro Swiss for a Direct Drive Adaptor. WOW with BL Touch More WOW. My old 10s Pro is a tank today. But as my hobby grew in parts I also started to get requests for my parts. I looked at the Creality production machine but $1,000 Nah! So I see Klipper as a possible answer to speed and accuracy. Then I saw the review of Bambu Labs, WOW! No we are talking. Putting advanced control technology on a $600 range Printer is starting to get exciting. Therefore I think your predictions are dead on target. I am surprised to see more and more Model Train Hobbyist buying a printer and learning tinker CAD. I have begged Fusion 360 for years to offer a Hobbyist version just for 3D Printing and retired engineers even military service Veterans, which I am. I felt a $100 a year was reasonable with some tech support and reduced instruction set for Solids and Documentation. But all I have heard so far is Crickets. I still use F360 because I own a Corvette and like to drive sports cars, for me F360 is a Formula 1 of CAD. But i get into trouble often without training and support. Bringing professional grade 3D print tech down to hobbyist, bringing Formula 1 CAD down to hobbyist and recycle 3D Print waste is all very good. But I also see the opportunity in standardized frameworks for Custom 3D Printing. As you point to cake tops in Word like apps. I am promoting standardized Mechanical interfaces for Model Train Chassis to Bodies thus allowing the standard surfaces and bolt patterns could allow massive reuse of designs and conversion for various scales to quickly transfer designs between scales and users rapidly. This method of design share could easily take off in many other hobbyist topics and with more reliable and accurate printers, easier to manage CAD software it can all open up. True event: Dish Washerer fails, a plastic valve looking like a gas engine cylinder head valve in smaller scale was worn around edges and did not seat anymore allowing water to leak past. The GE Repairman had the only one left in Virginia (my home state) so we were saved BUT, i see parts like this getting scanned, repaired in CAD, then printed in high caliber plastic on a high quality SMART Printer at the user home as needed. In undergrad school back in 1977 I wrote a paper on manufacturing on the moon. I used plastic beds of small size and flexible molds that could be program to be a 2 piece clam shell cavity mold for any part that was needed to build the city and all its contents on the moon. Thinking furniture at the time. I agree with you in that we are there NOW! 2023 should be the break out year for Hobbyist going mainstream in parts making for systems development. You Take carte and keep chugging, we need you!!! Dennis in Virginia Frankentrain Laboratories on You Tube
I’d love to see you host a virtual roundtable of your peers where you discuss everyone’s predictions for the upcoming year.
Considering what has been happening in AI in 2022 I'm definitely expecting 3D printing to be affected as well. CAD with an AI interface? "Design a cube-shaped box 30mm wide with a wall thickness of 2mm, a lockable lid on top and little feet in the corners. Include a grid in the back to mount a 20mm fan." "Check my design for potential overhang issues and optimize slicing for an optimal finish on the top and the sides." "Scale the imported design so that the height is exactly 24 mm but keep the wall thickness the same." Should be trivial for an AI but enable beginners to really take off.
Excellent video mate! Have a nice and prosperous New Year together with your family and friends! (edit: I recently bought a Reborn-2, my first 3D "toy", all my colleagues have some 3D printer or another, and/or laser cutters or engravers, etc, each according with their needs and budgets, I was kinda the last without a "toy" there, and guess what, my first thought after seeing the first failed models was to get a machine to recycle all that wasted plastic, I already have some way to shred it into granules, and still google-ing for a reasonable "contraption" to melt those granules and drag the wire, when I found your video)
I believe we need affordable and easy ways to take our scrap or failed 3d printed projects and melt them back into filament strips. I know there are dozens of youtube vids on people who are skilled in electronics making these machines but what about those who have little experience. 2 things I know are needed is a Shredder for the 3d print material and then a type of Extruder that takes the shredded material, melt it down and spit out the 1.7 filament
Thanks for another great video Angus! On the topic of easier to use CAD, and the rise of AI tools and software, there will probably be some integration between CAD and AI. We may also see this coming to slicers, Using AI to determine the best settings for the print. While the market for AI is still relatively small, I'm sure we'll see some AI-based CAD tools in the future.
I feel like resin printers are gonna get more popular, they are just too good at detail and the machine is extremely easy to use
Maybe, but im thinking polyjet printer will take over once they fall out of patent, theyre just easier to work with than resin.
Give it a go! Thank's for the video and just waiting for the bambu cons.
Nice video Happy New Year everyone! Whoop Whoop. My prediction is something you already covered. Home production of replacement parts will become a thing. The Uncle Jessie video is having me look at my old silicone and thinking of making molds for melting filament and doing resin casts. I curently use polymers to roll cast nosecones for my model rocket kits that I sell. But at R1000 for 2 kg, compared to R300 for 1kg of PLA, well the PLA wins the price war. I have been enjoying your channel for many years now. And your music. Here is wishing you all the best and thank you for your awesome work, and relevant topics.
I especially want #5 to happen. I have been hugely disappointed with recycling options. I generate large amounts of PLA to recycle, both print at home and in the robotics program I run at the school where I work. I have stopped trying to recycle it and am now storing it while waiting for a good solution. I am currently looking for an affordable process to form old material into filament. Several options exist, but they are beyond my current budget.
A friend of mine wanted to make that plastic bottle recycler with me, but I am not confident enough despite having a full blown machining workshop available for me. Will be nice if you could show how to us how its done
That sounds awesome.
If you've got that sort of equipment you will get it working, you just have to trial and error it until it works.
I agree, the race to the bottom should be done! Innovations, are what I am hoping for. I have seen the things they are doing at the pro and bleeding edge-pro level stuff from the 3d Printing Nerd's channel and it looks amazing some of the things they are doing. I hope some of those spin off into the hobbyist market. !!!!
For an easy to use cad, I would love a less buggy version of sketchup. It's still what I use for my functional print design. I learned it for woodworking design and can't be bothered to relearn modeling in other programs.
I think one thing we can expect to see advancements in that runs alongside more simple design software is AI powered text to 3D object services, there's already a bunch of research and papers coming out in the space. Personally, I'd love to see a recycling project that incorporates a failed print shredder and DIY filament extruder for recycling
The point about recycling is a good one, although the transition to the "make your own bottle-recycler" was a bit rough. :) And of course that doesn't solve the fundamental problem of needing to deal with all the PLA and ABS scraps lying around my house; sure, the "I print using recycled bottles" approach does reduce the use of the other plastics, but it does so at the cost of one of the few almost-viable recycling programs most of the world has in place. What's needed is some way to easily deal with the scraps. My local 3d printer store collects scraps and turns them over to a filament making company, but I don't participate because I don't have a car and the store is probably an hour away by bus and they don't really sell anything I want to buy. Spending three hours of my day off just to take them some plastic scraps isn't worth it to me. I recycle cardboard because it's easy - the cardboard bin is right next to the landfill bin, I'm going there anyway. I recycle bottles because, although they're also a bit of a pain, there's a small financial reward at the end. (Or some hockey team's fundraiser will come get them for me, even easier.) Until recycling my scraps is that easy, I'm probably going to continue to landfill them, and so are most people. As a side note: I've tried using recycled PLA because I like the idea, but I've found it's way too unpredicatable. Each spool is different and I spend a quarter of it, it feels like, just getting it dialed in. And then two days later I'm doing it all over again. Also, for me at least the recycled stuff tended to warp really badly. So, yeah. The waste aspect of 3d printing is still huge and needs a much more comprehensive solution than currently exists.
The main issue with recycling other people's 3D printing scraps is that you basically have to just take their word on it being sorted correctly, and only being 1 material per donated container. I know _I_ dutifully separate my PLA and PETG scraps, but what if someone brings a bunch of "PLA", but there's also some ABS, PETG, etc mixed in there, that they either forget about, or straight up lied about (so you'd just accept the whole box and not make a fuss). Your filament extruder might jam constantly if you set it for PLA, or overcook the majority of PLA in the batch if you set it to be able to melt ABS. Even with "just PLA", you'd likely be mixing plain PLA, ecoPLA, PLA+, lightweight (foaming) PLA, ... Either way, your material properties are all over the place if you mix mystery scraps.
@@JanTuts And that is the main reason why you want to recycle your own, not to mention you can also sort your colors and not have to settle for recycle color mixtures like grey and brown.
some kind of grinder to reduce the waste to pellets and a proper extrusion setup would be the way to go. No idea where to start on getting either item done affordably though.
Happy new year! Your predictions sound reasonable, but I think they will take more time.
i would love to see an in depth video on the research, obtaining, running, and review of ways you can turn pet bottles into filamant. i always see the build videos completly gloss over half the thing, and never talk about the potential struggles with building the rigs.
I use the free version of fusion 360. Im fine with missing out on some functions. But i could really use more storage. Free version is like 10 files. I would love a 1-time purchase for an endless/increased storage.
You can have as many projects as you want, you just have to switch between "editable" and "read-only"
This is why I don't like cloud-based software. With something that runs locally, I can have as many files as I can store.
@@user2C47 Yeah, 100%. it was lame of them to put this limit...
@@3DPrinterAcademy thank you so much!
...You also don’t have to save to their cloud at all. Saving to local disk as .f3d file is an option on the free version
Rather than pt recycling could you recycle pla filament by re melting and extruding it?
The issue isn’t the melting, it’s re-extruding it into a very consistent sized filament. It has to be uniformly melted so you don’t get blobs, and then uniformly extruded, and then uniformly pulled/spooled so it doesn’t stretch (making it thinner) or bunch up (making it an inconsistent shape) which is more work than using fresh plastic pellets that are uniformly sized and using a purpose built filament extruder.
@@heyspookyboogie644 so as an experiment I took metal funnel, put a cap on it and then slowly heated it to 210 degrees. In it I put chopped up pla parts. It had a 3mm spout and when I removed the stopper I had 1 meter long 2-4 mm diameter pla cylinder. Unfortunately my engineering isn't up to feeding that cylinder into a 1.75 mm nozzle... But with a heated nozzle and a feed system I think you could turn it into filiment.
Have had my first printer, Voxelab Aquila, for just over a year and I love it. Still going strong and I've put over a thousand hours in it. I have replaced fans. They are know for noisy fans. I've done upgrades as well. But, the base printer is rock solid. I'm looking at their new D1 now.
I do hope that people think more about recycling as an integral part of the hobby, or as part of their business. Even though waste material is already "paid for" and even though recycling is sometimes seen as a net negative or non value add, the mentality to take better care of waste, and is so important. Whether it is done in house, or whether it is given to someone who will process it, it's worth taking the time to decide what options are out there.
i love my mk3 but pprusa has to update their mid tier printer. so outdated.
I also think we will start seeing projects for AI simple 3d modeling starting to produce results. I imagine toys, basic household items and characters would be practical applications for something like this.
Thanks Angus, this is a great deal and money goes to a great cause. Have fun in Canada !!!! 🍻
Recycling is always been a big concern of mine. I predict will go even further with that 2023 it’s great to see makers working on these problems
Angus, I used to watch your videos. I bought a Tevo printer that reminded me of my teenage reprap dreams. I built it and eventually dismantled it. I finally have designs I want to manufacture and sell. I bought a DLP SLA printer for making small machines. I say all this in the hopes it gives you some satisfaction. You turned 3D printing into an easily accessible in your face type of thing for me years ago. God bless you Angus and your 3D Mission.
im trying to build a PET recycle machine, but there are so many different options and designs, I would love to see you do one as I'm sure it would help others and myself greatly. keep up the fantastic work
Nice thanks for your opinion and your nice presence
Back in the mid 80s I bought two propellers for my RC airplane that came without the holes in the center for the prop shaft. I took them to the local machine shop to get the holes drilled with a drill press instead of doing it with a hand drill so it would be straight. They told me to return the next day to pick them up. When I went back to pick them up, the shop wanted $500 for drilling two holes. I told them to keep the propellers. Suddenly the cost dropped to $20. They claimed they were losing money, but I think they just didn't want people bugging them with such small jobs.
About recycling - here in Germany there's at least one commercial filament recycling startup. Collect all your filament waste (sorting by type is a must of course), send them there and you'll receive a voucher for recycled filament. I really like that idea and it feels a lot better than trashing kilos over kilos of filament. Maybe some service like this exists in Australia and other countries/continents as well!
Thank you so much for the info!!!!
Thank you for your insight.
On point. I have observed and agree with many of these trends.
another top notch video, always looking at the bigger picture. thanks
To touch on #5 about recycling. I am very interested in this subject as plastic waste is a very common resource here in the states. I think that if properly cleaned and processed the potential for a home maker to use recycled waste for their own projects is enormous. A youtuber by the name DiyChen made a screw and barrel extruder and filament winder out of some common things you can find at a hardware store. This project has always fascinated me because I know that with a bit of chemistry, some programming, and a bit of investment, there are some very plausible ways to make filament at home out of things like ABS, PETE, and HDPE.
Outstanding video dude I enjoyed it a ton. Absolutely want to see you give a bottle to filament machine a try!! haha go for it!
Watching it at the end of 2023, I must say your predictions weren't bad :-)