Creality Developing Belt-Driven Desktop 3D Printer
I really don&#x27;t understand the appeal of this sort of machine. I have a pretty big (300x300x300mm) and very fast printer, and large prints are still annoyingly slow and expensive. I can&#x27;t ever imagine FDM printing (especially with a small, filament-fed hotend) being an appropriate way to make &quot;arbitrarily long&quot; objects. Other people have scaled the platform I have up to 500mm and 700mm, and get great results on genuinely large objects too, not just on long things.<p>Furthermore, the volume production stuff is just silly. If I&#x27;m printing a bunch of small objects, I&#x27;d rather fill a build tray with them, and then swap it out every 8 hours when it&#x27;s done. The belt release stuff really seems to have reliability issues. Or, just use an appropriate manufacturing technique for high volumes...<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just a curmudgeon with bad memories of belt build surfaces from a Thing-O-Matic.