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And don't get me started about the aesthetics of all those fiddly and completely unnecessary 45° bits and cuts. Looks like some junior engineer's "my first day with CAD software and a laser cutter".
"Design language" 🙂
But hey, aesthetics can be fixed in the next revision or upgrade. I'd put it in a positive light, they are setting priorities correctly. It needs to work on day one. Looking good comes later.
RE: Update...(Kind of)
"Design language" 🙂
But hey, aesthetics can be fixed in the next revision or upgrade. I'd put it in a positive light, they are setting priorities correctly. It needs to work on day one. Looking good comes later.
But the design does not even make sense from a technical perspective:
- What are those diagonal struts for anyway? There are no shear forces to take care of. Just omit these and give me a clear view. If you need more stiffness in the main mounting bar, give it a folded top edge -- the struts do next to nothing for that anyway.
- Why those humps? If you absolutely insist on the diagonal struts to prevent the user from reaching in, just connect them to the straight edge of the frame profile.
- More humps. How many arbitrary fills and asymmetries can one design into such a simple shape?
- Right, those mini cutouts solve the visibility issue. The design engineer probably walked by a construction site in the morning and got inspired by the little peepholes in the fence.
All of this can be fixed, of course. I may keep my INDX order in place and try to design a neater solution myself. But my point is, why can't Prusa be arsed to spend an extra day and ship a neat solution right away? What message is that sending to customers? How many potential customers will Prusa lose because they don't trust such a contraption and rather buy a Bambu Lab printer?
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Maybe they should provide a colonoscopy camera in the kit that you can feed through to check on your first layer 🤣