Bought one of these a while back, and it’s been great. Yeah, you can get hundreds of cheapo nozzles for the price, but not having to deal with increasingly shitty prints and nozzle changes has made it worthwhile for me, at least. I don’t even use abrasives, mainly just matte PLA.
Neither do you, once you’re dead.
I worked in a big box store for 8 years starting in 2013, and we always carried these. I don’t think we sold many, but we always had them around.
Blender is the last thing I would recommend to someone making functional parts like that. Fusion 360 is probably a more intuitive leap from FreeCAD, or OnShape, which I wish I had learned instead of Fusion in the first place.
They are not, and what they said is broadly correct, but of course individuals vary.
Different files! You can arrange everything in your slicer, then delete>slice>save>undo and repeat until you have all the colors. If you really want to go for it, you can edit the gcode so the bed doesn’t cool down between the prints, just in case you get distracted.
Buy an ender 3 if you’re cheap and have plenty of tinker time. Buy something by Bambu if you have cash and want ease of use.
Selling my organs, I guess.
I think of him as a zillenial version of Ashens.