Generally agree with everything here. Am a hobbyist with a A350 and upgraded to 10W laser and 200W CNC. It 3D prints with some terrible filament I got for free. It CNC’s and lasers pretty decently for my needs with minor issues.
Biggest things I would like is an easy way to repeat a print/laser/CNC and a library of settings for Laser and CNC so I could feel more confident in quickly setting them up.
Luban sucks to me because I use graphics software like Adobe, Affinity, Blender and others all the time and so when it lacks its obvious and requires a lot of workarounds to fix something you know has been solved many times over.
Thanks for your feedback! It is especially daunting for a new user. It is very confusing, and when you’re new, you don’t exactly know what information to gather. Thank goodness for the forum, but I did waste a lot of product before I got it figured out. I’ve taken two long sabbaticals from the machine until this point, where I’m determined either to figure out at least one of the tools, or scrap it all together. All i can say is, I’m thankful for my own tenacity
If this is a poll, I have to go with “kinda hate it”.
I’ve owned an A350 for three years now, and over the past year have bought standlone replacement machines for every mode. Part of the problem is that the A350 is just unreliable (given others’ experiences, I may have got a lemon, but that just means lemons are a possibility you need to be aware of), and part is that using the A350 just takes so freaking long. I can chuck a project on the diode laser or the Bambu and just go; with the A350 I have to spend a half hour or so calibrating every time I use it. Back-to-back jobs? Yeah, that shouldn’t require recalibration, yet if I don’t do it there’s probably a 20% chance of failure. The machine is also pretty inflexible in terms of setup: it is made to work in their enclosure, and to only be accessed from the front and right-hand side for maintenance, and if that doesn’t work for you, you’re stuck pulling the machine of its setup and onto a worktable to do any troubleshooting. It gets pretty old, pretty fast.
The above posts make some good points about continued support and the nature of an all-in-one machine. Certainly the space-saving argument holds: I ended up building two large carts on casters to hold the machines that replaced the A350, which is still on a shelf (turned into an enclosure) in a wall unit.
I keep meaning to fire this thing up and use it for some interesting CNC projects, but every time I power it on and start Luban and face that set-everything-up-all-over-again moment, I just go do something else.
I have had this machine for over a year now and really enjoy it. I use all three functions but really enjoy the CNC. I have a lot of the add ons but still have the 10 W laser. My main complaint is the 3D printing. It is very slow. The prints are of high quality and have very little problems with leveling, bed adhesion or stringing. I just wish it was faster. I have an Anycubic Kobra 3 now and will use this for a lot of my prints (4 colors) but when I need a large print, I use my Snappy. This machine is great for learning about all 3 functions. The software is another area where it could be much better. Especially in the laser portion. I would like to see it where you can separate the vector files. I use lightburn now and it does everything I need it to do. When using the CNC , I use Carveco and I am very satisfied with the end product. They do enhance the machine and software with updates and modules. The modules are a bit pricey. I would buy this machine again. I do not know how their stand alone machines work because I do not have one yet.
I “like” the machine but hate the “Oh look we’ve updated this to improve your experience (linear rails and bed) and it’s going to cost you, not us, for our develop failures.”
