Nice-Looking, Less-Expensive Cube 3D Printer Leaves Me Cold (Core77)

A new and affordable 3D printer has hit the market: 3D Systems’ Cube. It’s
infinitely more elegant-looking than MakerBot Industries’ Replicator, and
nearly 500 bucks cheaper at $1,299 (though with a smaller 5.5″ x 5.5″ x 5.5″
build area). But my excitement at first hearing about it quickly subsided upon
seeing the attendant Cubify website, which gives you the impression the
company behind it isn’t quite sure what they’re doing.

First off the video presentation, which is so banal I will not embed it here,
is like one of those uninformative Powerpoint slideshows you’re forced to sit
through at work meetings and bad press presentations.

Secondly, MakerBot Industries’ machines have a strong community component that
greatly increases the utility of and support for their products; go to their
Thingiverse website and you’ll find tons of free projects you can make, with
descriptions and files. In contrast, when I click on the Cubify “Community”
page, I’m met with a pointless wall of headshots of different users, and many
of them stock silhouettes to boot. Am I meant to click on people’s faces that
I like in order to see what they’ve made? The same page also …

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