SUPER EASY Plug & Play 3D Printing with the NEW Ultracraft Reflex RS
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- The Ultracraft Reflex RS takes over from it's predecessor the Original Reflex and makes it more affordable to more people.
A cheaper machine combined with cheaper resins gives us a plug and play, easy to use, drag and drop 3D printing solution that many of us have been waiting for. Yes I've been waiting for this....!!
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The lack of built in ventilation options/extraction ports on resin printers is so bizarre to me. It would be such an easy thing to include, and on top of that they could sell ventilation kits to make it easy for people who don't want to figure out how to make a system themselves, which just seems like a win for everyone involved.
I know right? It’s weird and somewhat lazy, I think. How hard is building in a fan and a tube!
@@thestateofplay2023 It actually is very hard when your marketing department demands a sub $1,000 price to customers.
@@svensvensson2724 Many of these companies sell extras like resin heaters and terrible little internal carbon filters for a horrendous price; especially given how little carbon they hold compared to the volume of some of the inline carbon filters you could get for the same price. They could build in a ventilation port and sell an extractor kit for cheaper than those carbon filters. I can build a ventilation system for most printers for about $30 paying retail prices for parts. It's not hard, nor expensive, and doesn't require much, especially on the printers which have a pre-cut port for ventilation so you don't have to cut one yourself. It's just about making it as easy as possible for people and encouraging people to be safe.
I've never 3D printed a thing in my life and watched this video like "ah, the booster plate thingy sounds annoying" but I still watched it as it was thoroughly entertaining. Good job.
Thank you Darren. Good to know my nonsense has a wider appeal than just nerds and geeks. 😜👍🏼
Welcome back from vacation! I'm just getting into the mini painting hobby and your channel has been an incredible source of knowledge and ideas. Thanks for doing this!
Hey mate thanks. Always here for anything you might need!
If someone made non-toxic resin (both fumes and touching it) - I would drop 2k on a printer tomorrow. But as it stands, I live in an apartment and there's simply no way I can set up a printer so it wouldn't smell and poison me.
A cheap grow tent like I have would work? Because I’m with you, the less poisonous the better.
@@thestateofplay2023 Yeah, I thought about that, but you still have to take everything out and clean it, and by the time you're done the entire apartment would smell like resin and isopropyl. And it's not like you can ventillate it easily in the winter especially.
No, apartments and 3d printers just don't mix.
And again, if it was just smell I could maybe deal with it. But it's toxic - that's the issue. Cancerogenic. If it increases my chances of serious and lasting health complications by 0.1% that's kind of too much for a toy.
As someone who does quite of bit of resin printing - if you don't have the space for it that is seperate from your living space, just don't do it. Its cool but its not worth risking your health in any way.
@@magikarp2063 Yup, my point exactly
I would rather pay a few pounds on etsy.
Ya. I'm on farmland and if we could reduce the hazard to fumes I'd consider that acceptable and design a safe and appropriate space, but the liquid biohazard is not something I want to introduce. When I used to print in town I quite liked how clear resin could be cured to 100% confidence, but that in a pseudo greenhouse is not enough.
Getting the 3d print settings right isn't the problem, it's dealing with post processing that made me stop using my 3d printer.
I can’t disagree. I hate cleaning at the best of times. But I now have a process which makes it bearable. Not fun. But bearable. 👍🏼
Glad to see you back on the tube!
School Summer holidays are over!! Yeah!!
Great video as usual, I love the tips and tricks but one of the main reason I watch your videos instead of others is you make them fun to watch. I so look forward to being informed and have a giggle when you post a vid 👍
🤣 Thanks Jeff! Yeah I find much of TH-cam hobby stuff to be….educational but not so much….sarcastic, satirical and dare I say “a bit p1ss takey”. 🤣🤣
thumbs up for the Wrangs of Power joke alone.
I aim to please. 🤣🤣 I mean baby orcs. It’s like the writers watched the World of Warcraft movie and got confused with Tolkien.
We got Johnny Jokes over here! Get a LOAD of this guy!!
Great video as always!
I prefer the moniker Jeremy Jest. I’d even go Harvey Humorous or Frederick Funny.
But I draw the line at Harold Haha or Christopher Comedic.
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YES YES NEW VIDEO IVE BEEN WAITING
I do hope my sarcasm and satirical commentary meets expectations! 🤣🤣😜
@@thestateofplay2023 as always 🙏
Keep up with the amazing work looking forward to seeing more from you
Thanks mate! I absolutely will!
@@thestateofplay2023Good to hear
Absolutely love your channel, I've yet to see a video that wasn't just super informative but also super entertaining. Well done! On this topic specifically, Ultracraft should just hire you to consult on their product development team, the Collab would result in something amazing.
…and I’d get to use my product design degree instead of it being a useless piece of paper that I never used. 🤣🤣
Thank you Paul! I appreciate the compliment
Well noticed on the lack of seal. Resin printers look incredible, but I'm not willing to play about with VOCs and risk developing resin allergy.
The resin allergy is mostly skin contact and even then not for all people. Gloves help. As for VOCs yes, I see so many videos of people with a printer like, on a kitchen table or something. So yeah, ventilation is a must. But once you have that. It’s hard not to marvel at what you can get.
Yeah, that lack of seal is a dealbreaker. I can't really put a printer in a spot with good ventilation which is half of the reason I went with DLP.
Yeah same reason I won’t have printers in the house. 🤷🏼♂️
Another awesome video. Thanks!
Thanks!!
Hey man, you remind me of Gerrard Butler! Seriously though love your videos and tips, keep up the great work 👍
You’re not the first person to say that. Although I don’t think he’d be reviewing 3D printers on TH-cam unless his career took a proper dive! 😜
Well ok it might be good, but my GKTWO still does pretty much the same thing. It does not autolevel but It came leveled and I never had to adjust. The results are still so good that you cannot really see a diffrence to GW Plastic. I can print with 15€ Sunlu ABS-Like resin (wich is hands down the best I have ever used) for much cheaper.
Ah but you had to do that. Calibrate the resin, support the models, fill in all the slicer setttings etc. With this, you don’t have to do anything. Nothing. Great for me as I don’t want to learn anything about 3d printing.
they do have a good system. My only real complaint is you are locked into their tools. They have a good slicer so that's not a issue, but what if you want to use a different material than what they have. realistically you cant. I understand them say they cant provide the same support for non-heygears reason but they could still have a option for non proprietary resin that they don't give support on.
I understand but what would you want to use that they don’t have? I mean do you really think 8k resin is actually 8k? What does that even mean anyway. 🤣🤣 Most people say they want choice but when it comes down to it just use the same resin time after time. Because in the end they can’t be bothered to calibrate new resins. Yet with this machine you can just use new resins. Plus you can use any resin in this. Nothing stops you. And 80% of the time you’ll get an amazing print. What’s the failure rate of prints on other printers with any resin? 👍🏼
Same people who have an iPhone which is locked into an ecosystem where they can’t change anything. 🤣😜
@@thestateofplay2023 mostly just have the ability to use more durable resins for tabletop minis. I
Whyyyyyyyyyyy would they ever make the top of the build plate flat. That's literally enough for me to not want it. I want to reduce my workload, and resin spills, as much as possible. Makes you wonder what other simple usability things they missed.
As far as I’ve found, that one was it. Everything else, I can’t fault. The plate is steel rather than aluminium (so doesn’t scratch) but making that angled would have upped the costs I reckon. They should have just left the holes like in the Reflex. Resin would have poured through.
in my opinion printer ventilation is overrated, as in sucking out the fumes from inside the printer can't be achieving much, but I'm surprised that the lid is not an airtight seal
Yeah it surprised me too. It’s like they assume people might have a ventilated room spare (in our huge mansions). 🤣😜
Great vid! Hmm.... I too, am lazy and don't want to learn an entirely new skillset to 3D print. I am intrigued. Maybe not intrigued enough to buy this machine but intrigued. Maybe not too much longer until we get a 3D printer that is truly plug and play AND more affordable.
I don’t think we’ll get plug and play AND affordable. It takes too many sensors and algorithms to make it truly plug and play which cost a chunk to implement.
@@thestateofplay2023 I think we get it eventually. Its like a buddy of mine who bought a 40 inch flat screen TV in the early 2000s for $5,000. You get a better, bigger TV than that for $250 these days. Once there is Plug and Play competition in 3D printing, costs will come down. Enough for me to buy one? ... We'll see.
Oh I agree on Tv costs. I had a plasma many years ago. Cost like a car.
But with printers I can’t see Elegoo, Phrozen, Anycubic or Creality adding sensors or anything to make printing easier. Because they all still rely on 3rd party software and users to do all the work for them. They can then claim it’s never the machine at fault. It’s the user. 😜🤔
can we get a clip of the "baby orc" song please?
Top 10 chart hitter next week!! 🤣
the price point for the quality (even including the heated vat) is honestly good (i've seen a few of their dental printers being used and, holyshit, they know what they're doing) and it really will just come down to the quality of their cheapest resin, for me.
I know what you mean. Takes a LOT of convincing to explain to people what you’ve just said in one sentence about Heygears.
I still haven’t gotten any of the PAS10 resin but am itching to see what it can do.
Missed ya'. Thanks for a new video. I have two unused resin printers because the process is so freaking fiddly. I had four unused FDM printers until I bought a Bambu Lab X1-C and then a month later an A1, both with the corresponding AMS unit. Now I have FDM prints running much of the time. I can't help but wonder if this would do the same for my resin printing.
It might. I reckon a second build plate would allow you to run prints continuously. Take one out. Put another in. Print more while cleaning the previous stuff.
I might add that cynicism and sarcasm are requirements of satire. So you being cynical...well tell me something I hadn't anticipated.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 what? meeeeee? 😜
Well, at least they are adding some reasonably priced resins for the hobbyist. As you were talking about all of the things removed, I was assuming this would be a $600-$700 printer, and make it a real option, but it's like they cut corners everywhere to reduce manufacturing costs, and then decided they wanted to make a higher margin on the damned thing... Probably to make up for the loss of margin on the resin.
That's one thing I've not seen talked about (though I could have easily just missed it) is whether their $70/kg resin is actually comparable to other $70/kg resins out there, which are typically the lower end of more engineering-focused resins, or if it's just your bog standard hobby resin, overpriced to make more money.
And yeah, the lack of ventilation, and massive air gaps makes this a terrible choice for a lot of people (though given I witnessed a guy arguing that shoving his ungloved hands into a vat of resin was no big deal yesterday... I have to wonder how many people would even consider the air gaps at all).
Yup, I see so many video on TH-cam of people not caring a jot about gloves, masks or ventilation- it doesn’t surprise me with humanity the way it is right now.
As for the $70 resin. In this case it is speciality engineered resin. In fact all their resins are incredibly specific with their properties. Unlike almost every other resin out there.
As of printer itself - The Plug & Play aspect sounds great for people who don't need another hobby, just the miniatures.
I worry a bit about knocking the plate out of default level, since you can't (?) do any leveling yourself and it isn't auto-leveling each time, just coming leveled from the factory, if I get it correctly.
Price is a big factor, however if you can pay for ease of use, I suppose it isn't that bad. However the lack of any air purification or ventilation doesn't fit in. You get the printer for the "casuals" but you still need to put it in a separate room and wear more safety gear then Chernobyl cleaning crew? Strange move.
Overall sounds interesting but personally I would rather learn and tinker with settings and resins myself in open environment.
Is the auto support feature that good? Did you have any failing, supports leaving marks on miniatures faces or other important detail etc.? Looks like you can do some of this stuff manually in the app, so that's good.
Interesting. Yeah it appears to check it's level every time. Yes, it's factory levelled but is so solid steel that I can't see it going out of whack. However, if it does, there are screws to perform levelling and Heygears support will guide you through it.
I get you're the kind of person that wants to tinker with settings. Makes sense for some people, nothing at all wrong with that. I personally lean more towards a 2D printer. I wanna hit print and know that at 100um I get 'draft', at 50um I get 'best' and at 30um I get 'photo'.
Oh and I've printed every day since August 25th and never had one fail. I did have something small left in the VAT once, but the printer told me there was something in the VAT, so I cleaned it out.
@thestateofplay2023 That's great to hear, perhaps we'll get to the point where all slicers have good auto support feature.
2D printer is a good comparison, looks like we're getting there, if we could get non toxic resin as well we would be set.
I would rather go with solutions like Bambulabs, where instead of locked but confirmed environment from the manufacturer, you can get community made settings. For the end user it's very similar result, you don't know what to do, just click "please use the setting that work" and you're done. But without additional costs of specific resins etc.
I would recommend somewhat recent video from Once in a Six side about Bambu Labs. Perhaps the answer we need lies with FDM printers after all for our minis? I would suggest reaching out to them and test the smallest nozzle, perhaps that's the true "plug and print".
Oh I’d love FDM to be the solution. I always watch Once I’m a six side and he hit the nail. It just takes far too long to print with FDM and to get better quality would require an even smaller nozzle which would take even longer. And due to engineering limitations bed slinging or head moving can’t get any faster.
I am looking at selling my Anycubic mono X because I don't want the hassle of resin. Never used it because of that. I wonder if this will make me want to print resin? After watching the whole video I think I am still in the "nah" camp. :-)
If it was because of calibration I can understand. If it was toxicity then I also understand. 3D printing is one of those things that seems great on the face of it. That’s until you realise what it actually entails. If I hadn’t got machines for free to review. I probably still wouldn’t be 3d printing.
I've been looking at HP Multi Jet Fusion industrial printers.
They are quite expensive, and neither the materials nor the print method are open source.
But if you're making car or aeroplane parts at smaller volumes or need them quickly, the method will pay for itself.
And nothing prints better quality for industrial use.
But the industry sector has both the needs and the money.
This Ultracraft concept is a harder sell because the method is already available, and you can get similar results with a Mars 4.
Plus hobbyists who are prepared to house a resin printer like to figure stuff out.
Like how to use other resins in it.
The concept is good, but they need to nail it, and at the right price before they go bankrupt.
Well let’s unpack. Firstly they won’t go bankrupt as all their money is in the dental 3D printing industry. I think these machines are, for want of a better description, small change to them.
I have a Mars 4. I couldn’t get out of it what I got here. Because simply I wasn’t prepared to fiddle endlessly with every possible setting. And I’ve set up a 3D printer and don’t want to play with any settings. I just want prints.
I think many people misunderstand there’s there’s a huge audience for 3D printers who DON’T want to learn slicer settings. Who don’t want to fiddle. Print exposure tests. Waste resin. I’m one of those people as are 90% of my hobby group.
It’s not that old dogs can’t learn new tricks. It’s that no one bothered to ask the dog whether it wanted to. 👍🏼
@@thestateofplay2023 Good for them they make dental printers. That's what I got started on, btw.
Those things are hugely expensive in purchase and cost of running compared to hobby printers.
So they won't go out of business. But that doesn't mean it will be easy for them to make essentially the same machines at a hobbyist price point.
I'm not saying there's no market for the product. I'm saying there's a huge hurdle to get over.
Considering the amount of manufacturers using the same non-original, free-for-all concept, and the reception so far, I think I can say I'm right.
Like I said, the concept is good.
Exactly what are we arguing about?
We’re not arguing. We’re discussing. If we were I’d be writing in capitals. 🤣🤣 I argue very little thesedays as I’m too old to care that much about any given topic. 😜👍🏼
@@thestateofplay2023 Discussing some form of an argument, no??
Haha! Touché sir
I get some poor jokes.
You get like and comment.
Fair deal.
Yes. If the jokes were better than poor would I get a share, like and comment? 😜
@@thestateofplay2023 Nah, the only deals are for the poor jokes and crazy stock footage.
ok, then. more of that. Got it!
Here are my win take-aways about the RS and saving $400 ($650 with the specials):
Because my resin printers are housed in a vented grow tent, I don't need a heated vat and ventilation is also not a concern.
- I use a drip tray when unloading the plate from my printers, so the dripping from the flat plate top isn't an issue.
- I agree that the refill time is low, but I would (like you suggest) fill my vats and then just depend on the refill mechanism to keep the vat topped up which only needs to happen at the same or better speed than printing uses the resin.
- To the price of the resin, folks seem to miss that the Hey Gears resin bottles are 1.3Kg, not 1Kg - you're getting more, and better resin for the price. And, if you've ever used pro-grade resins, the price is right where it is everywhere else.
- With the new, 1Kg bottles and the reduced pricing of the PAS10 resin, the pricing argument is removed even further from the discussion.
- As to the closed Blueprint / Resin ecosystem, while I love Lychee and my proven Anycubic resins, I waste a lot of resin performing tuning tests and failures caused by me not getting my supports just right. If using the closed ecosystem means that I'm to just - as stated - load, click, and print with no waste while getting phenomenal prints, then lock the ecosystem door and throw away the key. Like you, I'm more interested in the results of my designs (and minis) far more than the process of getting to that point.
I think this one may be the purchase argument that my wife won't win 👀🗞
🤣🤣🤣 I read all that with a nod and a straight face until right at the end when you threw in the wife comment! Brilliant. Man after my own heart!! 😜👍🏼
Seems like a lot of drawbacks, managed to get the GK3 Ultra for $999 probably stick with that.
There’s drawbacks to 3d printing in general. All those melt away when you see what comes out of this with no effort whatsoever. 👍🏼
So this is a normal 3d printer with some settings presets for first party resins and, maybe slightly better autosupports then other slicing software? I can see the auto orientation of some models is really bad. Like am I missing something? And its over double the price for that?
All other companies need to do is to offer resin presets for their own resins (not sure why they already don't).
No, that’s what I mean by looking under the hood. Almost all other printers are glorified platform lifting machines controlled by someone else’s software.
This machine has so many sensors it monitors and recalculates everything dynamically as it prints. And therein lies the problem, very few people are willing to dive in and see WHY it makes this the best. Because we’ve all been brainwashed into thinking 3D printers should be cheap and we have to do all the work.
@@thestateofplay2023 Yeah after looking at more videos it does look like all this actually has benefit for print quality.
Its not just good but somewhat better then other machines.
Couldn't tell from your video as you compared to the worst test print I've ever seen, I suppose there was something wrong with whatever your last machine was.
You can still make your own supports in lychee or chitubox and just slice it in their software right?
The autosupports might be good for autosupports but as someone who does supporting models for my work I can see isssues from a mile away.
I agree. Worst test Print ever. It was on the Mars 4 ultra and while someone could get way better, that’s not me. I have no interest in learning any settings, tweaking lychee, printing a 100 things with different lift speeds/distances etc. 🤣
That’s why I love this new machine. I don’t have to do or learn anything. If you’re an avid 3d printer who knows his raft from his exposure then you don’t need this machine. But if you want to print great models whilst doing very very little…..
I don't mind machines like this, but what the user decide if they want to why not the people that want their hands held choose that and if you don't, let me use the slicer I want, the resin I want, everyone is happy how does it hurt them I can see where they would get more support emails but just say we only offer support in hand holding mode oe some ish, it's not about only the cost of the resin it's about being locked into something and being told you can't use a new resin or another resin or slicer, this is exactly why I will never use an apple device or purchase one and I'm not alone.....
Totally understand where you’re coming from. I’m very Apple and have been since the 80s so having something that just works, never breaks, never crashes, has no viruses - works for me. This printer just works. No fails, no issues, no wasted resin on calibration so in the long run costs you less in both money and more importantly (as you get older) time. 👍🏼
@@thestateofplay2023 I also never have viruses my phone my computer always works, I don't believe in paying thousands of dollars for something and being told how to use it or being told I can't do something on it when I know a competitor can or the device has the ability to do that thing.. it does not make any sense at all it's like buying a car but you're not allowed to use a spare tire so if something ever happens you have to get it towed
High quality but with expensive lock-in ecosystem? Sounds like Apple to me. As others have mentioned, the printing is the "easy" bit - it's all messing about after the print is finished that is the problem (removing supports, washing, curing, filtering the resin, cleaning the machine etc.) This is time, expense and effort that needs to be factored in when working out whether 3D printing is more cost effective than buying commercial products. Yes, eventually you may be able to save money but you might upgrade your printer before you reach that point!
Let’s if I can help as I’m one if those “hate 3d printing types”. 👍🏼
Blueprint cures supports different to the model itself. So they just rip away off the build plate. Then dunk the models in a IPA quick bath before a wash machine. Take ‘em out, let ‘em dry then Chuck in to cure for 5-10 mins. Done.
Cleaning sucks. Yes. But the only thing to clean is the vat. And only if you change resins.
Resin in ipa, I’ve found settles to the bottom so you can scoop the top IPA out. Then leave the rest outside in the sunlight.
In short, you’re right. It’s all a total pain. It’s not really that cost effective but damn, you can get some great stuff not available anywhere else.