Anycubic Kobra 2 Pro Review - AM I WRONG HERE?!?
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I really have no idea what you are talking about here. I got the Pro, assembled it, let it calibrate, loaded the filament, sliced my model and printed it. And that is what I have been doing consistently with it, with no issues. The price and quality is great, I have no complaints.
It's a cheap printer with low quality assurance, you might get a good one that has no problems, the next person will get a crap one that wastes more time than the high speed prints will ever save. Out of the box, the z-offset was wrong for mine, it was almost touching the build plate on the first layer and same as @FauxHammer mentioned, it was a pain in the arse to adjust. It then printed okay, but the default profiles are too fast and it blurs past a lot of details. Default settings also gave terrible stringing, the default retraction was set to something absurd. Mine still has issues where the time estimates out of the slicer are wildly wrong. If I want decent quality, I tried manually adjusting speeds and mostly wasted my time, I get okay prints if I use the default settings and then before the print starts swap to the "stable" profile, but that means I have no idea how long a print will take. One day I tried to do a print and the z-offset that I'd painstakingly tweaked had randomly thrown itself off and had to be adjusted again. Not a problem yet, but the X-rail wheel needs to be adjusted to its maximum to give decent clamping on the rail (to stop the head drooping), it works but I worry as soon as it has a bit of wear and tear there'll be no room for further adjustment. The side feed has been a bit crap for me, would rather just have a top feed, I thought it'd be easy to swap but it's actually a bit of a pain in the arse. The nozzle rubs on the print and it's been a pain in the arse to figure out why and basically means I MUST use gyroid infill for anything taller than 50mm otherwise the nozzle will bash its way across the infill. On long continuous travels, the extruder can't keep up at default speeds, so if printing something large with smooth sides the default speed settings will create a mess. So, yeah, basic cheap-and-crappy printer problems.
I totally agree with you I've never had any issues with my one and it's extremely simple to use
Quality control from Anycubic is very shotty from what I’ve seen. Some people get a perfect unit and others get complete duds
Like mine also😊
@@wolfie54321mine is a bit better but yeah it has similar problems and I have a similar opinion about it
Well, my Anycubic Kobra 2 Neo has been fantastic! I don't mess with wifi, just use use the SD card and I am happy. Hopefully they will get the firmware updated soon.
Built mine 2 days ago, now sure what you mean about the screws, but the bigger (white) manual shows you which screw size to use for what, there are 3 sizes. Come one, you can't really use wrong ones here, unless you're new to...screws ;). Agreed with the filament roll holder, positioning is stupid. Magnetic bed is a bit annoying as well, but worrying about it is a bit of a red herring - it is slightly bigger than the printing are and doesn't collide with anything if not perfectly aligned, so all I do now is match left side, then pinch back right side with 2 fingers to align it "just about" and it is fine.
After firmware upgrade the auto-leveling worked perfectly, my first layers on this are very close to perfect. Prusa slicer works fine, so is the Anycubic one - but profiles available for Cura are all wrong, I tried 2 prints that worked perfectly on others, and even after matching settings 1:1 couldn't get them to work well. Wi-Fi is, as you said, a big disappointment. I managed to get it to print form the app, it seems there's an issue with the back-end of the app and sometimes the upload gets stuck. That said, you CAN send the gcode directly to the printer from the Anycubic own slicer as long as you install it on your desktop and link it with the app. I managed to get this to work and it does the job.
Overall, I'm happy with it, given that recently you could get it for under £230. This cost alone makes it worthwhile for someone who wants to start playing with FDM. As an upgrade? No, surely not - but I would still say this is a really good entry level proposition.
I feel like if it's not stupidly simple and out of the box, most TH-camrs who review just can't do the basics, complain about obvious things, and make ridiculous mistakes simply by not doing the obvious or reading the command manuals, most of the People who see new product reviews are sponsored and either fawn over the product or ignore logic and expect something even a child can use... They complain about things you could do in seconds as if it were the end of the world. This situation is ridiculous.
Yeah, that's pretty much my experience, I wasn't having a go at the screws as if that's "THE BIG PROBLEM WITH THIS PRINTER", just saying that it wasn't exactly laid out as well as well as it could have been, I even said it;s not a big deal.
and with the print bed, I'm not sure how you mean it's a red-herring? is that the right analogy? Again, I'm just saying that other brands have bothered with notches and guide screws. again, not a big deal but this printer is to same a list of minor annoyances where they could have done better
Screw layout could have been better, magnetic bed could have been better, WIFI could have been better, setup guide for using it with slicers could have ben better.
Overall when compared to older printers, this printer is fine - but as i said in the intro, this price point is either aimed at Beginners, in which case it;s not a clear user experience for them - other brands have done much better here. Or it's a machine for people who want to tinker a bit more, but is locked down version of those aimed at tinkerers as it has it's proprietary OS here.
The point of the video is that the printer is ok, but probably just best for someone who's already had one and just wants a new cheap one. And there are a few annoyances here that didn't need to be here with a little extra effort from Anycubic. If you are happy with yours for your use case, great.
@@FauxHammer By no means I'm bashing on what you've said, potentially one of the very few reviews of it with some actual, unpaid for merit or just blind, over-saturated hate. I really enjoyed it as it is clearly unbiased - and I entirely agree with your final summary here.
For the red herring I don't mean your words, but worrying about the plate alignment itself. It just doesn't matter at all. I spend a while myself being a bit annoyed by this, but after I went "whatever" and just placed it well enough - it didn't matter for the print at all, so a good thing to point out, but makes no difference for performance (extremes disregarded), that's why I called a problem red herring, not your opinion about it.
@@AllinWhenPlaying ok, I kinda get the red-herring analogy now. and thanks by the way.
yeah i agree with that, as I said, Anycubic are relying on the software to manage all this, I didn't know if that was enough, and time will tell.
Time seems to have told this is working. so that's great.
I have bought Kobra 2, non-pro, 8 months ago. I replaced half of the printer to make it work nice and fast, including installing Klipper on external pi. Now I even replacing motherboard cause stock drivers or CPU apparently can't keep up with what klipper do and I have layer shifts every 2 out of 3 prints.
But by the end of the day I wish I'd waited for A1 release... I know about 3d printers tinkering way more than I would ever liked in other circumstances. I just wished to print large scale action figures && board game upgrades like tokens and organizers. But end up printing kilograms of test models and buying soldering iron.
I recently purchased my Kobra 2 pro for 259.00 no tax and free shipping (they always have discount codes on the net , simple google search will find one). Mine even came with a 1kg roll of high speed PLA+ of my color choice for free as well.
I was comparing to purchase the Bambu A1 but at 399.00 + tax AND 25.00 for shipping it just wasn't in the same price range as the K2pro.
Setup was a breeze imho and the speed is crazy fast at standard (250-300mm) and the quality has been really good. The auto bed leveling worked perfect and the WiFi works fine from the Anycubic slicer on my windows machine so not sure why it didn't work for Ross but maybe needed an update?
Sure it's not as sleek or as large as the A1 but it's a fantastic price and didn't the A1 get recalled just recently because of a bend in the power cable?
Good review and correct on a lot of points but I think some of the conclusions were not what I had happen myself. And I am no expert
Great review. I first got into 3D printing witht he Anycubic Kobra Neo mostly because it was cheap and seemed simple to use. I'll say for what it was it was decent (the best $150 can do) but over time caused more problems than it solved. Any sort of support was nonexistent, replacement parts were hard to come by and near impossible to install with directions, and the filament runnout sensor never worked. Fast forward I upgraded to the Bambu P1S and I'd never go back. Like you said having a printer that just works and lets me print instead of me messing with it all the time is a huge blessing. In hindsight I could never recommend any Anycubic product moving forward unless they change dramatically.
For any standard-sized FDM printer, you need to bring something to the table that I can't get with a Bambu A1. I own a Kobra 2 Max, but the selling point for that was size. I wanted a big printer, but the Neptune and the Comgrow were pretty bad, and there were at least some positive reviews of the Kobra 2. But right now in the 220-250mm bed slinger class, the only room for competition to the A1 is price and/or urgency since the A1 is being retooled. There is no meaningful competition on speed or quality or material handling without innovation that is not yet apparent, and the Kobra 2 certainly isn't that. So just price and availability. My advise is keep your ammo dry until the A1 is back on the market, or until someone created a credible alternative. If you have to buy now, bite the bullet and get a K1C. If you need a cheaper printer, right now, check out the Ender 3 V3.
I got the original Kobra 2 because of it's auto levelling, it didn't take much tinkering to get decent results in fact I was so happy that I bought a second one. These 2 printers aloud me to make some money on eBay selling a unique print for Dewalt tool boxes and have easily paid for themselves. 6 months later and I have old one and bought the FlashForge Adventurer 5M Pro and the print quality is far superior in the Flashforge and it took zero tinkering, worked out the box!
I must be missing something.....
I can send files from the anycubic slicer to my printer. It has a remote print function.
You can send the gcode from the slicer to the cloud and then access it from the app and start a print.
While printing you can access the app and view status. From that same screen you can enable a web cam and view it.
So far i have tested two different web cams and both work.
The instructions were lacking but they clearly started which screw to use when assembling the printer. It would have been much nicer if the screws were separated.
As a new user; i did not know if the belt tension was correct. I also need to adjust the z height offset and that was not explained as well as it should have been.
With the app installed it will send you notifications when a print has completed and if you need to load a new spool of filament.
It didn't have that function when I tested it, I looked. if it now works I'll update the description of the video to say this feature has been added.
I'm glad you got webcams to wrok. I have a Logitech Studiocam, it;s USB C for one and requires an adapter, which works on my PC but not on this printer. may be too powerful for it, may be a protocols issue. All I said was that mine didn't work.
I have the pro for some time now, had no major issues, but now i doubt if my levelling is ok. Is it bad when i see lines on the bottom of the print after i remove it from the buildd plate? By lines i mean the zigzags of where the filament was extruded
I have a K2Pro picked up during the preorder. Its okay but not great. While its Klipper-ish, it doesn't actually use a large portion of the Klipper features. For instance, when it corners/goes thru a curve. Its way too harsh for its transitions. Not being able to level the bed before a print sucks - you have to use the UI to do it manually. The inductive leveling sensor (aka LevelQ 2.0) drifts with temperature. The Y axis has too much flex with the wheel/rail arrangement. AnycubicSlicer is okay but not as feature rich as PrusaSlicer or Orca. I had a power supply fail but Anycubic support sent me a replacement. I would rate it a 5/10 for the money.
Do you use screen protectors? Is there any brand you would recommend?
Nozzle packs available on Amazon for months. While not intuitive, all the level and positioning controls you were looking for are available deeper in the settings. The probe sensor in the back is only meant to be used by the auto calibration which knows the coords for it, you're not meant to position it manually over it.
Great review vibrates.
I have 2 Anycubic resin printers and am looking to a fdm. For the price point I was looking at this one. If I were to chose something else around $300 what would you suggest?
I really apreciate the, "I shouldn't have to do extra work to make the thing work" I am currently in the market after getting rid of my ender 3., and probably going to pull the trigger on a P1S.
If it's in your price range, it's a fantastic choice. It's not going to be a silver bullet that makes everything work perfectly, but Bambu FDM printers are even more reliable than resin printers.
Had an A1, loved it. Sent it back because of the recall. Got a P1S, love it even more. Go for it
Love the review, i am happy i stayed away from the Any Cubic printers.
I Got an SV07 plus in deceber, do i love it, sometimes, other times i want to toss it in the bin. But at least i can fumble my way to get it working thanks to the community. It was between the SV07 plus and Neptune 4 plus, i joined both of their facebook pages and the Sovol Community was much more positive then Neptune, that was the determining factor for me. If i had 5X the money i would have gone with the Bambu X1C, but i wanted the larger build size.
Camera function works. Plugged in a webcam and it works through the app. No issues
good to know. It's just that mine didn't so it doesn't work with all cams. Would be nice to see Anycubic provide a list of working ones.
Well, I am in that group of people that doesn't care about ease of use, but i'm really concerned about print quality, is there any difference between kobra 2 pro, neptune 4 pro and bambu lab a1/a1 mini?
I appreciate your increased focus on FDM printers, especially for miniatures. For me, a resin printer is a no-go. So, I like how FDMs are approaching that level of quality. I will never expect FDM printers to handle 200 Guardsmen, but if they can churn out unique heroes and vehicles, then that would be a useful purpose for me.
I've recently tried to print a 25mm miniature, it printed but details were not very detailed so to speak, I was using sunlu matte filament which has a slightly higher melting temperature than the anycubic sample filament that comes with the printer. I'm going to try with some anycubic filament that I've just brought and see how I get on, I've got a few different miniatures that I've downloaded that are a bit bigger than the 25mm bounty hunter I printed. I brought myself an anycubic Kobra 2 neo , took a little while to find a completely flat level surface where I could keep it, I've had more successful prints than fails and I'm a complete noob , only thing I normally use my laptop for is car diagnostics
@@aroncheek5092 I am following the progress of the "Tomb of 3D Printed Horrors." He is using a Bambu Labs A1 Mini with a .2mm nozzle and is tweaking the settings to apply to miniatures. Like Ross mentioned in this review, Bambu Labs has pushed the envelope and I hope that the next year produces more achievements. As the FDM printers upgrade, hopefully the STL providers will start supporting FDM as well.
I have Kobra 2 (not Pro). I run it from Linux with a USB cable (that's what the 3rd port on the Pro will be for), use the Cura slicer, a 0.6mm nozzle from AliExpress and I get great prints. Yes I'm a tinkerer (with settings), but so far so good and I'm very happy with results. I print PLA at 215 degrees, print speed of 175mm/sec and 6.3mm retraction. All for USD199 (after the discount). Beat that!
While the creator of the video is polite he clearly expects Bambu- like frills in a printer that’s far less expensive.
This printer is solid. I’ve had it since December and have been very pleased. I also have the original Kobra.
Great Video, you helped me make up my mind :)
Glad I could help!
What's the "better, smaller and only 20$ more" printer that's referred to in comparison to the Kobra 2 pro?
Bambu labs A1 mini
I'm also not sure what your problem is as mine needs a bit of a leveling on the bed, but other than that, it's an awesome printer, in my opinion. I temporarily put some aluminum tape on it (not stuck down) to take up the difference, but I will permanently fix it in a few days.
I do t have a problem.
I feel this has been largely misinterpreted as a negative video. I never said this is bad, but I won’t pretend the Bambi A1 doesn’t exist for the sake of a modern review
Like I said in the intro, the market has moved on. And this is neither as user friendly as alternatives, nor is it open source for the pros….
So who is it for?
I don’t know, I don’t get why you’d buy this when the A1 is much easier for only a little more money…..
But if it is for you and you are happy with yours. Amazing. I’m honestly happy for you because that’s what matters most… you get what is right for you.
I just don’t get it…
Feel free to explain it to me and educate me.
Best intro ever. Also, where did you get those ziptie-fusing-clipper things?
u mean reversed video clip part where he cut ziptie?
@@levankantara yes. it was a joke.
I realy wanted a big printer but i went with the bambu p1s due to ease of use
The camera support works with "most" USB webcams. I've tested an older one from Microsoft and Logitech and it worked with their cloud app.
How does it work though, just in the app. Yeah i was't trying to neg on it too hard, but my webcam is a Logitech Studiocam, which is 4k and needs a USB C-A adapter, so something didn;t work and I just couldn;t test it
I want to buy an A1 (but obviously can't right now). If I can't wait until May-ish (according to Bambu Labs website), I'll probably stretch my budget and go P1S.
I'm a super beginner FDM user, I'm looking for what's the most plug and play machine out there at the moment, or the most user friendly possible.I avoid FDM for years because I thought it was not user friendly as my resin ones, what you guys recommend for a beginners that's looking to print basically terrain and assets for tablet top games?
Bambu p1p or creality k1
Or Ender V3 se if need something cheap.
Good day love your videos i would like your opition on getting a new printer. i have the Anycubic Mega S for 4-5 years now and it is starting to not give the qood quility it used to give even with me changing and adjasting stuff. and i am between the korba 2 and the 2 pro i can get the kobra two for 185$ and the pro for 276$. do you belive the extra cost of 90$ is worth the upgrade to the pro?
thanks in advance.
Bambu A1
@@FauxHammer unfortunately it is outise my price range. I was asking between kobra 2 and Kobra 2 pro
@@unthinkablecreations6878 It's almost as if he is being paid to dissuade...
I see you also have injection molding artifacts on the cover of your Sunlu dryer. I had them send me a replacement 😅
About Anycubic they were significant a few years back but they're printers now are sadly close to things of the past (mostly due to style and user interface). I used they're Vyper a ton, I had 2 of them and they were workhorses but they're current lineup isn't so appealing to me.
Pippin and I are glad we held out and got a Creality K1 😝
Nice video!!😮
Could you please make a review on Kobra 2 Neo???
Thanks...
Hey Ross, any chance we'll get your take on the Phrozen Revo?
100% jusat waiting for one, they emailed me this afternoon actually to say it;s coming soon
Damn, Im happy I got a Bambu Lab!
Good review
Thanks!
Switch the hotend with an aftermarket ceramic one and it’s a beast.
I'm about to pull the pin and buy a Kobra 2 Max. That's quite an upgrade from my Ender 3 V2
I have a question after I cured my prints and they’re completely done. They still give off an odor. Why is that?
you have a very strong sense of smell?
Instant like for the intro! :D
i just wish I had a more dramatic voice
That intro was awesome
You can set the z-offset while printing and it will be saved. It's a bad design but the option exists.
thanks, yeah I;m all about calling out bad design and this is all, okay-ish design, barely passable but could be much better
@@FauxHammerYou can set the z-offset during printing and it will be saved, but it's a pain in the arse. Takes an hour of trial-and-error printing to adjust something that on any other printer can be done in seconds.
what about the kobra 2 plus?
I have a Neptune 4, i under6its limitations but it was cheap. When i upgrade it'll only be to a Bambu printer as things stand.
makes sense. out of interest, if you could go back now, would you pay the extra over the Neptune to get a Bambu A1? for a little bit more money?
Seriously when you know how to use the kobra 2 pro, is a charm. I've got nozzle 0.1 to 1mm and i do all my setting in prusa then i use my gcodes by usb or with my phone. I've built a gcode for the z adjustment and I'm at my 7th km of filament printing xD
you can send the file through the laptop (for me at least) and the leveling was really easy for me this is my first printer i found a lot of thing i disagree with in this video
and the whare i am from this printer is much cheaper than otger options
my kobra 2 pro has also been a absolute joy i hated fdm printing i could never get a reasonable print out of it, but im talking back in the days of self levelling processes, i basically built this machine and its printed about 15-20 prints without a hickup and they are superb prints at that. I think maybe you dont like anycubic?
2:42 just after complaining about having to guess what hardware to use where, you show the assembly manual telling you exactly which screws to use. Oof. 😂
yeah, but they aren't actual size images to line the screws up against, so you need to go through each of the steps first, make a mental mot of the sizes vs what you have (and you get spares too so the count is off) and then work outr which is for which step.
like i said, it;s not the biggest deal in the world, but somewhere that anycibic could have done better.
Great review as usual - guess I need to continue saving for a P1S...
Good choice!
I own this printer and my only complaints are based on anycubics cloud printing. I am sure that it can be easily fixed by future software updates. So as my experience, somehow yes you are wrong.
Print size is 220 x 220 x 250, not the 230 x 230 x 250 you stated in the video.
My biggest complaint: the only way you can remotely print is via the Anycubic cloud and their substandard slicer. I can't remotely print a file sliced in Cura direcly from my computer, so I'm printing by saving files to thumb drives and shoving them into the printer. (just like I did with my first printer 4 YEARS AGO!) Also, EVERY file I print gets automaticlly saved to the printer. I'm constantly having to delete unwated files from the printer. My Anycubic Kobra 2 Pro is a good machine.... crippled by archaic software.
What is an better 3D printer in the same price range?
The creator is insinuating that the Bambu is superior at a slightly increased price based on the “fuzzy” photo of it in the background at the end of his review. I will agree Bambu seems to be a superior product. But their entry level A1 ($299) does not include a metal flex build plate and is a full 2 inches smaller all around in build volume than the Kobra 2 Pro. You can purchase extras for the printer but they quickly add up to about $400 to get the same benefits Kobra has at the $270 price point. Bambu also uses propriety locked-in software like Apple products. Which means you might have difficulty using certain software to make your prints.
I am a tinkered type user. When you said not klipper but.... i litterly screamed inside in horror. It might be good. But will it be supported in a years time? And no prober wifi or fine tuning.... i just went.... that is more than bold. Thats stupid
got my Kobra 2 pro today, this Firmware reglementation and only Wifi Connection beats me. Nice Prints, but not for that price. Any recomandations around 300€/$
for that price, get an A1 on order. unless you specifically want to tinker with a machine, it is a world apart from anything else.
If this printer is using Klipper based firmware and Anycubic is saying that it isn’t, you absolutely should care.
Not because Klipper is likely to be better than anything Anycubic could do, but because if their firmware is in fact based on Klipper, they are violating the license terms of Klipper by not open sourcing their firmware - which is illegal. The worst part of popular open source projects is that companies use them without following the license terms, and the people that actually build the open source software (that companies make massive amounts of money on) don’t usually have the resources to defend their licensing terms in court.
I’m not saying this printer is in fact using a Klipper based firmware, as I don’t know. But you should care about whether or not it is, specifically because it means the difference between following the (free) licensing terms of hard working developers and being too greedy to give back to a project that made your product possible/worth buying.
I wish i did care, but i have enough to fight without claiming companies are violating licensing terms when A, I don't just don't know if it is Klipper or not, and B have no experience in Licensing laws.
If terms are being violated I'll leave it to the individual parties to work out between themselves. i'm sorry, but I;m not the right person to be in that fight
The race to the bottom, savage..😅
The race to the bottom has been the driver behind FDM for years. The Creality CR-10 and Ender 3 started a clone race with every manufacturer producing an identical machine for less and less dollars. Even "unique" machines from Artillery, Tronxy, Elegoo and Anycubic are just iterations on a theme. Occasionally you'll get something new and unique like Bambu, but then you immediately get a bunch of cheaper clones that spark off a new race to the bottom. I expect to see the same thing with Magnetic induction as soon as the Peopoly Magneto gets a full release.
3D printing manufacturing is bordering on innovative and creative bankruptcy, and FDM is the extreme end of this. Prusa, long hailed as the grandfather of FDM, is just iterating on the same basic design with incremental improvements, and the extent of most innovation outside of the Bambu style, seems to be "make it faster". There are exceptions like Voron, but they're more of a tinkerer's collective than a true competitive manufacturer.
mSLA isn't that much better with the same machine released over and over again, with slight reductions in pixel size and jargon-filled tweaks to the lighting array being the extent of innovation. Uniformation shook things up a bit but all that will happen is that the clone companies like Elegoo and Anycubic will copy the ideas and begin a new round of endless incremental non-innovation.
The question is what to buy in the same price range?
There is nothing, pretty much just this or the Neptune, Next best option is £100 more. I'm just here to show what you are getting yourself in for
Anycubic has started to fall off lately. Something is going on. New management or something.
Seems since the M5 series, I guess the M3 Premium failed so bad they had a rejig, but the M3 premium was the best printer they ever made. since then they have fallen off a cliff
AnyCubicSlicer can send files to the printer now
Could it actually be that creality isn't on the bottom for a change 👀
it may be!
if the OS klipper fly's like a duck, quacks like a duck and swim's like a duck it's Klipper
ok, my few years old anycubic kobra neo died.. and I am looking for something $500 ish. i sure dont need 4 head systems, and I am not printing things for sale or professionally, just doing hobby stuff, random items. fo not a Kobra 2 pro, then... what?
That budget? Bambu A1
looks good, thank you, why are some people saying it is out of stock? seems to be on the website ?
@@FauxHammer
Sounds like the established manufacturers are once again resting on past laurels, thinking adding two half-assed new bits to the 536734w65462346th Ender 3 iteration refresh will be enough.
yep - its iteration not innovation, and this is the year they needed to innovate
4:25 use a double sided PTFE tube connector
thanks, i know that, i was showing you need to bypass the runout sensor
@@FauxHammer in not really a fan of that tho, by passing the runout sensor
yeah, that was the point. if you wnat a sealed connection, you have no choice, but to bypass it@@alfredstergaard4660
They finally listened!
USB ports in front!
On a bed slinger not a resin printer. 😢
the printer ist ahaky so i figured out that its best iff you have sound isolation at the walls were you also screw your little table on and rubber feets on the table iff you do that its perfekt and it doesnt sound like a washin maschine, just a tip from me who wants to buy this printer :)
Lol this guy makes me laugh. My Kobra 2 Pro has been amamzing.
They target the tinkerer, but dont actually say it, while they market towards the beginner
on a flat piece you added a brim come on Bro 🤣
no, I didn't - that's the test print, and it;s how Anycubic sliced it... So if you need more evidence that these guys don't get it... there it is.
My print was the mug and phone holder hand, neither had brim
Yeah, I wish I had this video 6 months ago. I had a Kobra and not only did it have all the issues brought up here, it also randomly reset its Z and gounged out the base plate, and within 3 weeks of owning the powersupply burnt out completely bricking the whole machine.
I will give credit where it's due, they were quick to respond and send out replacements of the plate, the bed, and the power supply, but I'm not sure I would look to them for a printer again anytime soon
The proliferation of WiFi connections that only let you use a phone app is totally stupid.
If it can connect via WiFi then give me full network functionality, let me send files to the printer from my PC. That would be useful.
I don't want to use a specific app for a fairly useless (to me) function.
Wait why was I fined? did you hack my microphone? 🤣
and how can you endorse the printer that got a recall come on man
Because it's STILL better than this crap, and they are releasing a fixed model in 2 mos.
That's why.
Buddy is the erm actually guy on the thumbnail.
You're not wrong
As a tinker these are budget friendly out-of-the-box printers you want an out-of-the-box printer that's on the level of a 2000$ ability printer you got a few more years to go muh dude and by than they will have another 2000$ product out it's like stating I want a high performance gaming pc out of the box sure you can get one and pay out the nose, but you can custom-build the same thing for 1/3 of the price if you have the skill. If you want a high end out of the box custom order a 3d printer with someone to build it for you but be prepared to pay an arm a leg and your firstborn. I have a kobra 2 and its ok and that's what i expected from an out of the box cheap printer, just ok. The kobra is also still rather new and they are updating firmware all the time now by no means am i a kobra fanboy they do have issues but at this price point they all do. And i know the max does use klipper. Leveling as well on the kobra 2 was easy i found the z offset with no issue but again its the kobra 2 not the pro the max is also like the 2 not the pro so take that with a grain of salt.
Well I hear you as a tinkerer, but why would you get this over the more open-source Neptune then? and for beginners, I'm looking at this at £349.99 and then I'm looking at the Bambu A1 at £369.99 - I'd say that if you choose this over that, you are kicking yourself for the sake of £20!
Wait to buy the A1 till they release a new model version, they have been catching fire and need a redesign massive recall right now. And as far as kobra 2 max vs Neptune 4 max is due to the build quality and design i plan to run a pie for klipper anyway i like anycubics rails and drives better than the neptune and it tends to have better print quality out of the box. And here in the states the neptune is 470.00USD and the kobra 2 is 490.00USD 20$ the kobra 2 wins hands down for the ext twenty bucks.@@FauxHammer
Neptune > Anycubic (software) Neptune < Anycubic (Hardware) but i do like the led system better on the Neptune.
@@drewbombs7059 yeah, that’s so true!!!
Bambu has really shaken up the 3d printing market.
I'm in the same boat as you: I'd rather spend my time on 3d modeling and printing, not tuning and tinkering with the printer.
I bought a bambu a1 mini and as soon as the full size a1 comes back in stock, I'll be grabbing one of those, possibly with the ams lite. I didn't get the ams lite with the a1 mini because I just wanted to test the babmu waters.
I started my 3d printing journey with an ender 3 pro that's now heavily modified, but I'm done with the printer being the hobby. I just want to print.
I'm 100% with you on that. I was never into FDM printing much, I only covered them because brands sent me them thinking all printer reviewers are the same. my interest is in resin printing. but since the Bambu. I am now super into them and the problem with all these cheapo printers is that they are now so outdated in terms of approach. I can't in good conscience recommend them to people like us who want what we want from printing.
Pass
I’m pretty sure anycubic fixed all these software issues with the Kobra 2 Pro because every other review says all the opposite you do and it’s not just 2 other people, multiple reviews all say the same things. It’s easy for beginners, has useful speeds, good auto leveling system, but you seem to say all the opposite 🤷.
What issues? Did I say there were issues?
Please bear in mind, I’m not here to sell you this printer, im not an Anycubic mouthpiece. I’m here to tell you what it does. And I can’t pretend the Bambi A1 doesn’t exist.
I never said this was bad, but it is not as good as the A1 for beginners, it is worlds apart. And it is not opensource for people who want a printer they can tinker with.
My agenda is for the 3D printing space to grow and evolve for the everyday user, and this does neither for anyone.
But it’s not a “bad” printer and if you choose this for your specific use case and you are happy with it.. that’s all that matters.
These are just my “opinions” I’m not a prophet and never claimed to be.
@FauxHammer I’m happy that you tell the truth with this because I did some research and noticed other people having issues with it too and most people just didn’t say it in the reviews. I just thought you meant issues with connecting to wifi.
@@pinereel oh no, I had no issues connecting to Wifi here other than the stupid keyboard, but you only need to use that once. The WIFI connection issues were on the M5s. But even when connected to Wifi, I couldn't actually access the printer in the version of the slicer I had. I think that's resolved now, they have added a module. I never went back and checked but people have said it.
@@FauxHammer oh okay, i agree the keyboard looked horrible, my bad. Also no hate towards you i just tried to state a false opinion i thought i was right lol.
This as to be klipper there is nothing that would be able to do this from scratch and there is no way they have wasted time writing something. 😊
Proberly klipper but with a anycubic overlay
@@uvz6539r Nah, from memory it's a modified version of Marlin. It lacks a lot of the features of Klipper, you can't run Klipper-type commands, and even if it was Klipper it wouldn't make much difference because you can't do anything meaningful with it, there's no option to tweak things that you'd like to tweak with Klipper.
Owning kobra 2 plus for multiple months i have to say it's a nightmare. Only having problems with it, heck this printer has never ever been able to print a simple circle due to x-axis beein completely off. Currently i am facing issues zeroing z-axis since there is NO OPTION to zero it manually.........
I highly advise everyone to stay away from anycubic.
so the Ender 3 V3 KE is the winner again ye? if Neptune 4 and Kobra 2 pro failed you, can we get a Ender V3 KE review?
Had a Kobra 2…hated it. I didn’t buy the product so I could train to be an engineer! Sent it back. Got a Bambu Labs P1S on pay in 3. Best decision I have ever made. I was literally at the point where I was thinking FDM printing wasn’t ready to print high quality terrain. The quality the Bambu churns out, right out of the box, is incredible.
My Kobra pro 2 grinded its own rails to dust within a month of regular use. Took 2 months of back and forth to get a refund. I'm done with bedslingers (and Anycubic) for now. Printing with resin and looking at core xy for my next filament machine
This sounds like a pro grade pain in the you have been fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute. No need to enhance your calm, this really does sound like a printer without a market.
2:27 British humor is weird. You complain that Anycubic doesn't tell you which screws go where and then immediately show the part in the user manual that tells you what screws go where. 🤣
By the way; Anycubic has 100% stolen Klipper. And I think you should care. Why the hell are they stealing something that is _supposed_ to be free?!
Brilliant intro😅
I feel like it's been done before, 3000 years ago...
@@Gregatron13 In a galaxy far far away
I print commercially in both FDM and resin. I've learned to NOT BUY ANYCUBICS.
Bambu Lab, it's all you need to know.
Thanks for informing us that there are much better printers out there for beginners and then.... not telling us what those printers are
Not really a very useful video
This video is a review of "this" printer, the printer was provided by Anycubic. It would not exactly be nice of me to say thanks Anycubic, but I'm gonna use your printer as a platform to promote another printer. So when you learn that I operate with decency, it kinda makes sense....
It would have taken 2 seconds to look at my other FDM printer reviews, you already know I'm talking about printers released between this one and the Kobra 2. so have a quiock scan down for other bed slinger videos released betwene that one and this one.
Maybe check the one with the most views....
@@FauxHammer but you spend most of the neptune video shitting on it too? And the bamboo video is titled 'taking the piss'? And youve got other printer videos i guess but idk they dont look like budget printers...
Look man dont take it personally, i understand you where trying to be professional which is fair, im just saying its not clear at all as a beginner, which this video is targeting
Anycubic has been a pretty garbage company from the beginning. I pitched the first resin printer i got from then with in the first couple of weeks and this FDM printer is just showing that they have gotten worse as a company.
If your in India, do not buy anycubic. stick with creality.
You’re in the right. Too bad there’s no middle term, between community build printers and cheap and accessible ones :/
Prusa seems to be that sweet spot from what I understand. never tried one though. Seems you can tweak and tinker, but is still fairly userfriendly
That would be a used voron, ratrig, vzbot or anything among those lines actually.
@@JumpeFurby a used something is not a solution for me.
@@JumpeFurby totally different price point. DIY printers (not sure where you get a used one, as someone has to want to make it -- sink a ton of hours into building it, and then decide to sell it) There are no commodity versions of the printers you listed. Crossest thing to a commercial variant is a troodon, cheapest one still nearly 3x the price of this machine. So NO one is going to sell you a vzbot/ratrig/voron for < 500 after spending at least 2x and many hours that to build it.
@@kazolar both my trident and 2.4 were second hand bought of facebook market place because they gave up on the hobby admittedly for 550 euro. Perfect working condition without the hassle i had of building my ratrig.
5:58. No manual leveling? Check out the wrench and cog icon! Bottom of the screen. Besides other manual functions you can auto-level at any time. And the list of your obviously wrong statements goes on. Sorry about your glaring beef with Anycubic, for whatever reason, even more sorry about your shameful display of incompetence.
I have no beef with Anycubic. I don’t care about any brand enough to have a problem with them.
The M5s pro got praise from me
But I have a beef with you. There’s no need to be rude. If you didn’t get the points I was making this does not make me incompetent, I either didn’t communicate it well enough, or you just didn’t want to listen to anything negative about a purchase you’ve already invested in.
But please don’t take your butt-hurt out on me. Grow up mate, I’m a human like everyone else
So feel free to apologise and we’ll engage in civil discourse, or fuck right off
@@FauxHammer Thanks for your professional response. "Civil discourse" combined with "fuck right off" sounds quite grown up to me. Good luck with your communication skills.
There are too many other printers that "just work" even in this price range that don't require a phone app to access all the features for manufactures to release stuff like this.
Sounds like a mess
AnyKubic is not ready for prime time for any of their FDM products. I have a Kobra 2 and the leveling is so-so...and the prints have ringing like no other. I can't fine tune it b/c of their firmware limitations. They are trying to do some sort of custom leveling routine and their speeds are not as advertised. Even Creality offers a better overall product in the Ender series...and that is saying ALOT.
I feel that someone is just an Anycubic hater. Like Apple fan boys. They'll hate anything but Apple. Just load model and print. Get on with your business. Final result is good. Who cares about open source this and that and how i can't attach a foot peddle if i need to because they lefyt that feature out...lol... or that they left a cup holder out. Seems to work fine for me. No issues. I even have their mono 4k for years now and no issues.
Now I know why he only has 49K subs, bro cant review without only complaining. And just never talks about the specs. Lol
Only 49k lol - you can read the specs in the website