FlashForge seems to be dancing on the margins of the vast high volume area of the 3D printing market while owning a much larger percent of niche markets, providing customer focused highly engineered solutions. That's a great business strategy. They haven't abandoned consumer 3D printers but they aren't trying to be an Ender 3. The targeted approach allows them to be profitable with fewer machines delivered, with high reliability and good customer support.
Awesome interview. You can tell that man is very passionate about his work and he actually knows what he’s talking about and discussing unlike many other company’s who send out some joe to do the talking. I own 2 adv. 5m pros and I love them. Over 600 print hours between the two in a few months and neither has let me down yet
Great video and a Great interview again - he's absolutely right, the industry will increasingly race for 3D printers and they are urgently needed, even more than on the the private market. It's good to know they are also in the industrial market so they have reservesis if it becoming tough on the private market. Here too, against multi-material announced for 2024 (dual nocel will manage TPU so I`m again happy :-) I also often hear that Bambulab has opened many eyes in the industry as well (opens up the area for those who have not yet dealt with 3D-Printing). So the X1C was also an entry-level printer for the industry. The need can now simply and cheap legitimized and of course, as soon as it was confirmed, the needs for more, better, more reliable and more expensiv machines growns much quicker as before. Will there still be a workshop in 5 years that doesn't support main production lines with a 3D-Printer? This will become as normal as puting a welding or drilling machine to fix something quickly for the main production lines if needed.... Main production lines which has to deliver output and has no permission to stand still for just a second....
FlashForge, as far as I can tell, is pretty conservative. They don’t have the marketing hype like bambu lab printers but they are quietly producing some high quality stuff
6:49 ... DUAL EXTRUSION (IDEX?) in the 5M range... maybe in 2024? YEEEES PLEASE !! If its affordable and build size is not TOO SMALL then I will certainly buy.
@@NathanBuildsRobots Interesting question! Honestly speaking I have lost a sense of what is reasonable. On the one side Elegoo sells a complete 3D printer (Neptune 3 Pro) for 190 USD. On the other side Flashforge sells a single Hotend for 30 USD. So somewhere in between should be ok. More than 200 is defenitely greedy! 🙂
I tried some of their asa filament and it's pretty awesome would and am definitely going to buy more of it especially the white it prints so well. Love how this spokesperson said the show printer was going to go to a customer instead of lying to everyone and saying it wouldn't be
My favorite part was when he said people hate clearing nozzle clogs. He's right though! And I definitely think Flashforge takes delivering quality seriously. The machine I got was very well put together and surprisingly quiet and non-smelly thanks to the air filtration system.
Even better than wax jet printing (which is awesome btw) is to print the mold directly. You can use "Shell mold casting" it´s very find sand with a resin binder, when the binder is heated up the mold becomes hard can you can pour metal into it. Those machines are truly awesome, it´s kind of like metal 3D printing but you only print the mold and cast the part which in many times is even better because you can choose any metal, you are not limited to the powdered sintered stuff.
I wonder if they are working on that. It has an IP address, it’s just blocked when I try to visit it in a web browser. Same thing happened with the Anycubic Kobra 2 I was testing but now they just patched it to enable the web interface…
@@NathanBuildsRobots I asked them and they told me no. To use Flashprint. But who uses Flashprint. lol plus it’s got a jamming camera that’s basically useless. Maybe you can contact the ceo and tell them this is the ONLY reason I am not recommending this over a Bambu.
5M seems pretty good but the quick change nozzle is actually a turn off for me. Im scared of proprietary hardware like that; would prefer generic and easily accessible
My first printer was a flashforge adventurer 3 and anytime I see future iterations it gives me anxiety. I’m sure they’ve come a long way but man do those emotional scars run deep
@@NathanBuildsRobots Yes. i actually didn't know. it also kinda looks bad to have a top tier printer not use their own slicer.... it's almost like they admit it sucks yet wont release updated firmware to accommodate running Gcode. The sad part, it wouldn't take much.
Great interview again. You're really on a roll. Just solid detailed info, no silly jokes or padding.
FlashForge seems to be dancing on the margins of the vast high volume area of the 3D printing market while owning a much larger percent of niche markets, providing customer focused highly engineered solutions. That's a great business strategy. They haven't abandoned consumer 3D printers but they aren't trying to be an Ender 3. The targeted approach allows them to be profitable with fewer machines delivered, with high reliability and good customer support.
Awesome interview. You can tell that man is very passionate about his work and he actually knows what he’s talking about and discussing unlike many other company’s who send out some joe to do the talking.
I own 2 adv. 5m pros and I love them. Over 600 print hours between the two in a few months and neither has let me down yet
I was so close to purchasing a 5m but then I got the microcenter deal for the k1 at $350
The 5M is a great printer.
But the Black Friday pricing on the K1 is crazy. Creality have lost their minds 🙃
Excellent information!!😮
Great video and a Great interview again - he's absolutely right, the industry will increasingly race for 3D printers and they are urgently needed, even more than on the the private market. It's good to know they are also in the industrial market so they have reservesis if it becoming tough on the private market. Here too, against multi-material announced for 2024 (dual nocel will manage TPU so I`m again happy :-) I also often hear that Bambulab has opened many eyes in the industry as well (opens up the area for those who have not yet dealt with 3D-Printing). So the X1C was also an entry-level printer for the industry. The need can now simply and cheap legitimized and of course, as soon as it was confirmed, the needs for more, better, more reliable and more expensiv machines growns much quicker as before. Will there still be a workshop in 5 years that doesn't support main production lines with a 3D-Printer? This will become as normal as puting a welding or drilling machine to fix something quickly for the main production lines if needed.... Main production lines which has to deliver output and has no permission to stand still for just a second....
Need a 300mm core XY from Flashforge I would buy it immediately. Love my Adventure4 pro.
FlashForge, as far as I can tell, is pretty conservative. They don’t have the marketing hype like bambu lab printers but they are quietly producing some high quality stuff
Thanks for these great video,
6:49 ... DUAL EXTRUSION (IDEX?) in the 5M range... maybe in 2024? YEEEES PLEASE !! If its affordable and build size is not TOO SMALL then I will certainly buy.
I mean, what’s the second extruder worth to you? $100? $200? Or maybe keep it the same price and make the single extruder version cheaper 😇
@@NathanBuildsRobots Interesting question! Honestly speaking I have lost a sense of what is reasonable. On the one side Elegoo sells a complete 3D printer (Neptune 3 Pro) for 190 USD. On the other side Flashforge sells a single Hotend for 30 USD. So somewhere in between should be ok. More than 200 is defenitely greedy! 🙂
I tried some of their asa filament and it's pretty awesome would and am definitely going to buy more of it especially the white it prints so well. Love how this spokesperson said the show printer was going to go to a customer instead of lying to everyone and saying it wouldn't be
Love this flashforge guy hes so straight forward
My favorite part was when he said people hate clearing nozzle clogs. He's right though!
And I definitely think Flashforge takes delivering quality seriously. The machine I got was very well put together and surprisingly quiet and non-smelly thanks to the air filtration system.
@@NathanBuildsRobots i might have to pick up the 5m pro , would you recommend it over a P1S?
I'm looking at Flashforge for my next printer. They don't seem to get the recognition they deserve, IMO.
100% agree. They make a solid product.
Even better than wax jet printing (which is awesome btw) is to print the mold directly. You can use "Shell mold casting" it´s very find sand with a resin binder, when the binder is heated up the mold becomes hard can you can pour metal into it. Those machines are truly awesome, it´s kind of like metal 3D printing but you only print the mold and cast the part which in many times is even better because you can choose any metal, you are not limited to the powdered sintered stuff.
Nice🎉
That was cool to see. Gustav knows his stuff. I appreciated your questions and his concise answers.
I had no Flashforge could make a good 3d printer. I wish they made better consumer printers.
NO WEB INTERFACE is the biggest thing I hate about this machine!
I wonder if they are working on that. It has an IP address, it’s just blocked when I try to visit it in a web browser. Same thing happened with the Anycubic Kobra 2 I was testing but now they just patched it to enable the web interface…
@@NathanBuildsRobots I asked them and they told me no. To use Flashprint. But who uses Flashprint. lol plus it’s got a jamming camera that’s basically useless. Maybe you can contact the ceo and tell them this is the ONLY reason I am not recommending this over a Bambu.
5M seems pretty good but the quick change nozzle is actually a turn off for me. Im scared of proprietary hardware like that; would prefer generic and easily accessible
My first printer was a flashforge adventurer 3 and anytime I see future iterations it gives me anxiety. I’m sure they’ve come a long way but man do those emotional scars run deep
You should ask them why there machines need to be used with probably the worst slicer on the market. Great printers..... if they could only run Gcode.
The recommended slicer for this machine is Orcaslicer
Is that complaint based on older models?
@@NathanBuildsRobots Yes. i actually didn't know. it also kinda looks bad to have a top tier printer not use their own slicer.... it's almost like they admit it sucks yet wont release updated firmware to accommodate running Gcode. The sad part, it wouldn't take much.