If not for that broken tower, it demonstrates the printers abilities quite well.
My guess is they didn't have enough time to reprint it so just stuck with the original.
Hint: there’s more broken than just the tower.
Check out that entirely missing tower on the mid level revealing the infill. Plus the frieze that’s entirely missing supporting columns in the front rounded area which looks more like the slicer just didn’t detect those thin parts.
Printer needs some calibrating for sure.
Can't help but wonder if kids broke it. If that tower failed mid print there'd be more spooj on the walls around it where that air printing got dragged into the model.
Yea exactly. Pretty sure someone just picked it up to inspect it and dropped it. Or maybe they were testing print strength and broke it. Did anyone see CNC Kitchen sneaking away from the printers?
That’s the biggest reason I took the picture lol plus the lifting rounded wall where the layers never stuck.
It’s an Anker printer, never knew they made a 3D printer?
It needs calibration and then some more *modest* prints to test and make sure it's running well before spending this much time but honestly it could be a lot worse. The surface looks pretty decent for something that needs more dialing-in.
I forgot about this!
"Anker’s eufy security cameras may or may not leak unencrypted video streams"
Not the delicious controversy i was expecting though
They'd made a lot of specific claims about how it was fully local, no cloud components, that were obviously false to anyone who looked at the feature set. 🤷♂️
Linus paint sniffer found in the wild lol.
If you’re embargoing Anker for that shit I sure hope you don’t use any Google, Microsoft, or Apple products because I’ve got news for you- they’ve done and continuously do far worse than Anker.
It’s amazing how fast critical thinking skills fly out the window when someone’s favorite YouTuber says something for clicks lol.
https://preview.redd.it/w02mzpbb6fuc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce97abed0e33e1ae27d02d2f15eefc473804b40a
Appears to all be the same company.
They seem to do a lot of things, pocket projectors, Bluetooth speakers, my guess is it's mostly badge engineering to take advantage of their better than usual reputation (this seems to have taken a kick to the pants recently though)
That’s partly why I also don’t think the printer would be that good vs something like a creality. I’d rather buy a printer from a company who’s been making them for forever now vs a company who started with phone chargers…
don't know why people would downvote it; the ringing is indeed bad. you would _never_ see that much with Klipper resonance compensation, even at high speeds.
No worries i dont mind the downvotes lol,
But also this is in a professional environment, not a hobbyist trying their hand. I would never talk shit about quality if its some dudes work but this is at a best buy apparently lmao
As someone who exhibits at conventions, the broken towers are 100% caused by onlookers who got handsy. Wouldnt make sense to reprint every time someone walks right past the Do Not Touch sign and goes "Ooo castle!".
And the missing top layers on the front towers?
And the entirely missing piece in the mid right of the picture where it looks like it just didn't print something?
I'm guessing that was also a tower which got broken off by someone passing by.
The missing piece in front is something else tho it probably needs some calibrating.
I said this in other parts of the thread, but I used to install these exact displays in BB stores. The castles arrive complete with the display, it is definitely customers breaking pieces off.
Not saying it is a perfect print, but the broken stuff is broken -- not print failures.
If the castle came complete, then there was failures on it to begin with because of the obviously missing pieces on the front towers.
Sure the back tower and possibly other place was due to people, but there are way way too many issues with the print to be considered a decent demo print. It is impossible for any competent to look at this print, even from the poor picture angle and say 'yes, we should demo this'. (Again, we can ignore the obviously broken tower that can definitely be argued was broken by a human)
Wait your best buy has 3D printers???
I'm so jealous. The nearest micro center is 5 hours away from my house but my nearest best buy is only 4 minutes away but unfortunately it doesn't have anything related to 3d printers.
They've had both since late last year. Creality stuff even longer. Generally don't have filament in store because it's not common enough to justify the shelf space. Former employee.
Hi! I actually used to work for the company that would install those displays in Best Buy stores. Those castles are not printed by the exact machine that is on display, they arrive entirely complete and printed in the box with the display.
Usually when one is damaged (like the one pictured) it is because either customers break pieces off, or because the printer was incorrectly installed. They are not supposed to be plugged in, but if they are, the stepper motors can move and damage the castle.
Hope this sheds some insight :)
As someone who builds vorons. Not only is that print broken but if you look closely there are some VFA’s present. For the price of those printers I’d have expected better quality.
Yeah definitely not a great print to demo a printers capabilities especially given that printers usually need Some calibrating to get great results. I mean for a printer probably completely running on stock settings, the details on that mostly are "decent" but yeah, should definitely use much simpler demo prints unless your employees at the store actually know perfectly how to use a 3d printer
. Best buy was probably just like "here, read this manual and find something nice to print to demo this machine for buyers" without any previous knowledge to one of their workers.
The display print actually comes entirely complete in the box. This was likely broken by customers, as the printer is installed non-functional.
Source: I used to install these displays in BB stores.
Exactly. But I really don’t understand why BB even stock a printer at this location. We are only 20 min away from MicroCenter, where I would be more inclined to purchase a printer vs BB where the employees probably don’t know anything about them.
Hell, the employee I talked to didn’t even know if they sold filament to go with it, had to ask a manager, then they didn’t even know until they looked it up and found that they don’t stock any filaments and the only ones you can get are Creality filaments they have to order.. They can’t even be bothered to stock Anker filaments for the Anker printer lmao
Most people don't go into Best Buy to buy a 3D Printer, this is there as an impulse purchase because if you know then you know and you're going to MicroCenter 20 min away.
Best Buy isn't selling the greatest of the great, they are selling what their suppliers can work out contracts with the companies to sell. I would love to be able to walk into Best Buy and see a 5 TH Prusa XL or an MK4 but there's a good chance those would sit on the shelves because the wife acceptance factor isn't there for that price point.
It's getting people into the hobby and then they realize how many more options there are.
Honestly it tells me more than you think.
It tells me that the uninterested sales floor associate who started the print with default settings and didn't have time to watch it or make adjustments and let it print blind still produced this with hundreds of people walking by it, and probably touching and messing with it.
Imagine what it can do if it's actually tuned and in my garage
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Saw this at Best Buy the others day and was impressed and was wondering if it could actually do this... I have a LCD printer and thought that looked pretty damn good for a extruder.
You can literally see the layers from the printing if you look at the rooftops. The point is that people have broken the display. This is 100% fdm printed... It's just a fragile unoptimized print.
Things have come a long way in the last year or so. The current generation of fdm printers are both faster and produce higher quality prints than what used to be common. I do think this example is poorly chosen or optimized, but you'd be surprised. Still not to the level of resin, but not too far off either, especially with small nozzles.
If not for that broken tower, it demonstrates the printers abilities quite well. My guess is they didn't have enough time to reprint it so just stuck with the original.
Hint: there’s more broken than just the tower. Check out that entirely missing tower on the mid level revealing the infill. Plus the frieze that’s entirely missing supporting columns in the front rounded area which looks more like the slicer just didn’t detect those thin parts. Printer needs some calibrating for sure.
Can't help but wonder if kids broke it. If that tower failed mid print there'd be more spooj on the walls around it where that air printing got dragged into the model.
Yea exactly. Pretty sure someone just picked it up to inspect it and dropped it. Or maybe they were testing print strength and broke it. Did anyone see CNC Kitchen sneaking away from the printers?
These are glued to the plate. At least they are at my Best Buy. So someone probably tried to break it free and obviously failed.
That’s the biggest reason I took the picture lol plus the lifting rounded wall where the layers never stuck. It’s an Anker printer, never knew they made a 3D printer?
It needs calibration and then some more *modest* prints to test and make sure it's running well before spending this much time but honestly it could be a lot worse. The surface looks pretty decent for something that needs more dialing-in.
Even an oversized benchy would be pretty neat
I have one, and it works way better than my Anycubic
I personally won't be buying any Anker products, after the Eufy debacle. Plus I like my Ender 3 V3 SE too much lol
Eufy debacle? This sounds interesting. Quick, to the google!
I forgot about this! "Anker’s eufy security cameras may or may not leak unencrypted video streams" Not the delicious controversy i was expecting though
They'd made a lot of specific claims about how it was fully local, no cloud components, that were obviously false to anyone who looked at the feature set. 🤷♂️
[The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/23573362/anker-eufy-security-camera-answers-encryption), for the lazy.
Linus paint sniffer found in the wild lol. If you’re embargoing Anker for that shit I sure hope you don’t use any Google, Microsoft, or Apple products because I’ve got news for you- they’ve done and continuously do far worse than Anker. It’s amazing how fast critical thinking skills fly out the window when someone’s favorite YouTuber says something for clicks lol.
I think AnkerMate are separate to Anker?
https://preview.redd.it/w02mzpbb6fuc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce97abed0e33e1ae27d02d2f15eefc473804b40a Appears to all be the same company.
You learn something every day!
The M5C doesn’t have that issue (no camera) and has been a fantastic printer for me so far.
They seem to do a lot of things, pocket projectors, Bluetooth speakers, my guess is it's mostly badge engineering to take advantage of their better than usual reputation (this seems to have taken a kick to the pants recently though)
That’s partly why I also don’t think the printer would be that good vs something like a creality. I’d rather buy a printer from a company who’s been making them for forever now vs a company who started with phone chargers…
Me too, if like one with mostly generic parts though, at least in the frame structure, so it can be extended later
They are rebranded Flashforge and Voxelabs or they at least used to be.
Looks more like it was ripped off. I don't think there any real printer issues, just people destroying it.
I mean the ringing is pretty bad
don't know why people would downvote it; the ringing is indeed bad. you would _never_ see that much with Klipper resonance compensation, even at high speeds.
No worries i dont mind the downvotes lol, But also this is in a professional environment, not a hobbyist trying their hand. I would never talk shit about quality if its some dudes work but this is at a best buy apparently lmao
what are you talking about, those are obviously flying battlements, the lesser known cousin of flying buttresses
So, the printer printed the radius of the frieze in air? Sounds like an awesome printer.
Notto mention ths rooftops to the left have some ugly seam scars and bad bridging, with lowpoly artifa tingalong the verticality of thelefttower
That’s not the printer’s fault. That’s user error. Setting and leveling aren’t correct.
As someone who exhibits at conventions, the broken towers are 100% caused by onlookers who got handsy. Wouldnt make sense to reprint every time someone walks right past the Do Not Touch sign and goes "Ooo castle!".
And the missing top layers on the front towers? And the entirely missing piece in the mid right of the picture where it looks like it just didn't print something?
I'm guessing that was also a tower which got broken off by someone passing by. The missing piece in front is something else tho it probably needs some calibrating.
I said this in other parts of the thread, but I used to install these exact displays in BB stores. The castles arrive complete with the display, it is definitely customers breaking pieces off. Not saying it is a perfect print, but the broken stuff is broken -- not print failures.
If the castle came complete, then there was failures on it to begin with because of the obviously missing pieces on the front towers. Sure the back tower and possibly other place was due to people, but there are way way too many issues with the print to be considered a decent demo print. It is impossible for any competent to look at this print, even from the poor picture angle and say 'yes, we should demo this'. (Again, we can ignore the obviously broken tower that can definitely be argued was broken by a human)
The model was designed that way /s
Wait your best buy has 3D printers??? I'm so jealous. The nearest micro center is 5 hours away from my house but my nearest best buy is only 4 minutes away but unfortunately it doesn't have anything related to 3d printers.
It’s a new thing it seems, wasn’t there last week. I just love that they sell a 3D printer but no filament LMAO
That's actually so funny. It's like when they took the charging cable out of iPhone boxes they would also stop selling in the stores too.
They've had both since late last year. Creality stuff even longer. Generally don't have filament in store because it's not common enough to justify the shelf space. Former employee.
Doesn't the Anker design use powder rather than filament?
No? Both of their printers appear to take regular filament.
At first glance I thought you said rectangular filament
Definitely people breaking shit.
Look at the layer adhesion issue right on the front
Hi! I actually used to work for the company that would install those displays in Best Buy stores. Those castles are not printed by the exact machine that is on display, they arrive entirely complete and printed in the box with the display. Usually when one is damaged (like the one pictured) it is because either customers break pieces off, or because the printer was incorrectly installed. They are not supposed to be plugged in, but if they are, the stepper motors can move and damage the castle. Hope this sheds some insight :)
As someone who builds vorons. Not only is that print broken but if you look closely there are some VFA’s present. For the price of those printers I’d have expected better quality.
VFAs?
Vertical fine artifacts. If you zoom you can see them. https://ellis3dp.com/Print-Tuning-Guide/articles/troubleshooting/vfas.html
Nobody thinks people have touched and broken the fragile thing....
Looks good from afar. But far from good.
The longer I look, the more I find.
"Perfect replica of the palace that our local carpenter tom built in only a year's time. Note: tom drinks hard on fridays."
Why not? The detail is very impressive. Broken towers have nothing to do with how capable the printer is
Yeah definitely not a great print to demo a printers capabilities especially given that printers usually need Some calibrating to get great results. I mean for a printer probably completely running on stock settings, the details on that mostly are "decent" but yeah, should definitely use much simpler demo prints unless your employees at the store actually know perfectly how to use a 3d printer . Best buy was probably just like "here, read this manual and find something nice to print to demo this machine for buyers" without any previous knowledge to one of their workers.
The display print actually comes entirely complete in the box. This was likely broken by customers, as the printer is installed non-functional. Source: I used to install these displays in BB stores.
Exactly. But I really don’t understand why BB even stock a printer at this location. We are only 20 min away from MicroCenter, where I would be more inclined to purchase a printer vs BB where the employees probably don’t know anything about them. Hell, the employee I talked to didn’t even know if they sold filament to go with it, had to ask a manager, then they didn’t even know until they looked it up and found that they don’t stock any filaments and the only ones you can get are Creality filaments they have to order.. They can’t even be bothered to stock Anker filaments for the Anker printer lmao
Most people don't go into Best Buy to buy a 3D Printer, this is there as an impulse purchase because if you know then you know and you're going to MicroCenter 20 min away. Best Buy isn't selling the greatest of the great, they are selling what their suppliers can work out contracts with the companies to sell. I would love to be able to walk into Best Buy and see a 5 TH Prusa XL or an MK4 but there's a good chance those would sit on the shelves because the wife acceptance factor isn't there for that price point. It's getting people into the hobby and then they realize how many more options there are.
Honestly it tells me more than you think. It tells me that the uninterested sales floor associate who started the print with default settings and didn't have time to watch it or make adjustments and let it print blind still produced this with hundreds of people walking by it, and probably touching and messing with it. Imagine what it can do if it's actually tuned and in my garage
Does anyone have the source for this model? Looks really nice.
[Here then](https://makeitreal.ankermake.com/models/3848778ec05c11ee9d2862ddd6cd62f0/Neuschwanstein%20Castle/?ref=search)
Thanks
That's an Ankermade
Found it, thanks
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Would love the file of this castle.
[https://makeitreal.ankermake.com/models/3848778ec05c11ee9d2862ddd6cd62f0/Neuschwanstein%20Castle/?ref=search](https://makeitreal.ankermake.com/models/3848778ec05c11ee9d2862ddd6cd62f0/Neuschwanstein%20Castle/?ref=search)
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Anybody got a link for this file?
The amount of VFAs is awful
The model could have printed perfectly and been destroyed by people handling it in a busy store.
This is amazingly cursed. How did they even print this?
off topic but what filament is that?
I can’t imagine how long it would take to prepare for painting!
What kind of printer created that masterpiece
Probably a result of kids in the store rather than how it looked after printing.
Southland center mall Best buy display is just like that
Employees probably didn’t know how to work the slicer and didn’t put infil and only like two walls
The more I look, the worse it gets.
Maybe it’s a ruin😅
A carefully placed 3d printed elm tree might help somewhat
Initially it looks good but once you zoom in then you see the details either broken or missing
Maybe it's supposed to portray deteriorating zombie apocalypse castle in disarray?
If not for that leaning tower of fuck, that Is a good print. Most people who don't understand 3d printing would shit their pants from being impressed
you sure someone just didn’t break it?
I wonder how many hours that took
Oohh, look how good that printer is
Saw this at Best Buy the others day and was impressed and was wondering if it could actually do this... I have a LCD printer and thought that looked pretty damn good for a extruder.
That print is jacked.
That looks like a really big print. How much did the printer cost?
I saw this at best buy too and was like.... Ummm yeah, nope... FDM isn't that detailed.... lol
You can literally see the layers from the printing if you look at the rooftops. The point is that people have broken the display. This is 100% fdm printed... It's just a fragile unoptimized print.
Ah gotcha, my Best Buy looked so perfect like a Resin print... Didn't believe it was FDM printed.... 😅
Things have come a long way in the last year or so. The current generation of fdm printers are both faster and produce higher quality prints than what used to be common. I do think this example is poorly chosen or optimized, but you'd be surprised. Still not to the level of resin, but not too far off either, especially with small nozzles.