When assembling it a few days ago I was impressed by the sturdiness and quality of the build. I have only tried 3D printing so far. It’s not fantastic and it is certainly not silent, but it works. The bed size is great. Looking forward to cut, engrave and mill.
I don’t regret my purchase.
No regrets yet (A250 here), but my prior 3D printer was an antique with no auto-bed leveling, no filament detection, poorly heated bed, belt driven, ancient original (Pronterface? scratch that…Sanguinolu v1.3) board with steppers that wanted to overheat constantly without a hurricane of a fan on them, and small build size (like 4" cube truly usable despite 6" claimed and bed size). I should add I’m nearing retirement so ‘able’ to take financial risk, and using this for playtime not anything I intend to make money off of. You are paying a premium no doubt for the ‘swappable’ controls, and there is a little bit of the law of multifunction devices aspect likely vs. machines dedicated to any one purpose.
I’ve not had any initial difficulties yet I couldn’t overcome from good practice and experience which sounds like you have too. But if you’re in a much nicer machine will the SM2 really be “better” for you on the 3D print end? Don’t know.
I haven’t tried either yet but my real reasons for wanting this as a replacement of my old machine vs. just a newer 3D printer were for the laser and to CNC circuit boards. I have a much larger X-carve for other CNC tasks and just don’t want to be generating much dust in the house. I do have some fear about how copper dust might impact the working of the rails should any ingress into them, but we shall see.
I figured I’d give 3D printing a good month’s workout before I try the laser. Milling last. (For that matter I wonder if I could spraypaint a board with a good black paint to act as a mask and laser that off, then etch a board with the standard garage-shop 50/50 peroxide and muratic acid mix, and not risk the copper milling debris issue at all? One of the things I wanted to try lasering was a black paint layer on a semi-translucent acrylic for backlit markings on the face of a ‘button box’ sort of control panel…)
Those are some awesome designs! How did you do the multicolored 3D Print?
I would strongly recommend against buying from snapmaker. My printer died after 1 print after fighting filament reload errors. Customer service is a joke.
To be determined.
Support is overloaded but on FB they’ve said they’re currently training people.
I’ve had response within 2-3 days and resolution within a week. Other’s haven’t had same experience.
Overall the design is good and it’s a capable machine. As far as that aspect I’d buy again without hesitation. I’ve been able to create some really nice things with it.
Definitely appears to be some problems with failure of linear modules. How common it is is still unknown. Is it a design flaw or a manufacturing defect or quality control problem? Is it limited to a certain batch?
Software is awful but there are plenty of good alternatives.
Community support is really good.
If I were to be buying now, knowing what I know, I’d be waiting to see how things turn out.
For a 3 in 1, there’s no real competition. Even if you were to buy the 3 separately you’d pay more. If you only need 2 of the functions, I’d look elsewhere.
I think covid has caused some of their issues and affected their supply chain.
Hey folks,
I have gotten my Snapmaker a350, and I think I am ready to give my opinion if it was worth it or not.
The first attempt to print was dire. It bit into my bed and ruined one of the sides of the removable sheet. There were some very loud urrrrks as well with the rails. Everything I learned in my engineering degree screamed gear slip. I’m pretty resilient, though, and started debugging. I have heard new steppers do this before, so I wrote it off to the equivalent of “New gear who dis.” Minor fail but not the end of the world.
I flipped the sheet and recalibrated the printer. On print, it started to look like it might dig into the bed again, so I cancelled out of print.
From this point forward, I thought it wise to turn on the camera for Snapmaker’s support team encase I had a failed linear rail. As you can see in this video, the third calibration routine failed again, and there were a few more urrrrks sounds from the motors you can hear in the video. Because I’m the stubborn sort, I immediately reran the calibration routine. To my joy, it passed. From this point on, the printer has one or two more uuuurk sounds, but now, after a few hours of printing, she’s a tank. I am writing it off as just new gears being slow to get with the program. The prints are all excellent quality.
I have a Prusa 2.0. I’m not too fond of the thing. It took me three weekends and endless hours of tinkering to print on.
My experience here is not that. I was printing same day as putting it together, which took me 4 hours.
So far, the 3D printer is solid as a rock. I am delighted with it. I think the other units will be equally smooth.
Is this printer for moms? Depends? I would not say it’s as easy to use as my Silhouette and my beautiful build had something to do with how many times I have rebuilt my Prusa. I have three years of experiences with that I bring to the table.
For people who are not on their first machine, there’s nothing here you can’t get around. Even Laban is better than I expected it to be.
I’m excited - I think my answer is yes, it’s worth it.
At 2:40 in your video the Y carriage snaps as one of the stepper motors skips a step - this is likely either caused by the leadscrew pitch mismatch between the 2 Y linear rails from a known manufacturing QA/QC issue, or possibly some other reasons discussed in here and elsewhere: "Bump" in Y-axis
Easiest fix will likely be find a pair of linear modules with the same travel and pair them together.
Glad you’re able to get it running! Ask around if you run into issues, lots of people on here that are knowledgeable in getting the most out of this machine!
Ah thanks loads! Is Snapmaker sending out new rails for people? I will read more now. 
Yes and no - People have been getting replacements, slowly, although for a couple of my issues I had tickets on support just asked me to try swapping modules around and see if that gives satisfactory performance. In my case a small wobble developed in the X axis carrier as the rail tensioning mechanism loosed up a bit with use (and maybe a crash or 2 or 10). Support said put that module on the Y axis as the wobble will be less of an issue with the carriage platform holding it more rigid. That being said @sdj544 has a great post on how to retension the rollers here Excessive play in x-axis linear module bracket
@phoenixperry, i’m glad your happy with it! please do let us know if you run into any more trouble. also if you know anyone who wants one, lightly used, let me know 