Wow! More fun than I expected!

By: Graeme Pretty Sr. on 24 June 2020

I received my Flashforge Adventurer 3 printer from 3dprintgear last week. The guys were very helpful in answering my questions before buying it. When I set it up, I right away printed the “cube”, then a robot, then.. you get the picture. I’ve been using Tinkercad now to design parts for my Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects. It’s quick and easy to send the design over wifi to the printer, and I have a perfect print every time. I was surprised at how quickly things are printed. I’m sure the heated bed makes a difference to the output too. My wife is even impressed! I’ve thought about buying a 3D printer for a long time and am glad I took the plunge. Now onto printing all my Star Trek things from Thingiverse, and building my electronics projects with style and finesse! Thanks guys, it’s a great printer!

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intro to 3d printing

By: Richard Mitchell on 30 October 2019

This printer has been a fairly good introduction to 3d printing for me. By using the cloud print option and default settings has allowed me to start printing quite quickly. When I ordered the printer my wife got excited and ordered lots of different coloured filaments from ebay. I made sure the filament size was correct and the brand was flashforge and that the weight was the same as that I had seen on the flash forge website. Unfortunately I discovered that there are three different types of flash forge spools. I downloaded and printed a spool adaptor for the adventurer 3 but it didn't work since there seems to be 2 different types of adventurer 3. The model I downloaded was for a Mercedes Benz symbol type centre, whereas my version has a cross type centre. I then downloaded a different adaptor and edited it in Tinkercad. This seems to have worked but it doesn't look like a great adaptor long term. I'm thinking of downloading a more complicated adaptor or dreaming up a support myself in TinkerCAD. I also found out that the default settings print a raft around each print, but that the raft is only required for ABS prints. Since the printer comes with PLA which is also the most common type of filament, I would have thought that no raft would be a better default setting. Overall it has been a positive start and I'm looking forward to lots more complicated prints and developing my own models.

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Easy starting point

By: Paul Storey on 6 August 2019

The FlashForge Adventurer 3 is an easy to use and relatively hassle free starting point for 3D printing. It is simple and does a very good job. build size is limited at 150x150x150 and you can get bigger with many of the Chinese products. the main strength for the FF3 is the ease of setup and you can be printing in less than 30 minutes. The version I just purchased has the new / improved extrusion nozzle and this has addressed many of the problems with skipping etc that you will read about online. i would recommend the FF3 to any new users or if schools or parents with children want to protect them from little fingers in hot parts!!

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