Hi,
Have you seen the Info about snapmaker Artisan?
What do you think about it? Do you think we could also use the quick change Modul for the snapmaker 2.0?
Best Regards
Gerrit Pohlmann
Doubt.
The company has shown little regard for owners of previous-generation machines. They’ve got no short-term economic reason to sell upgrade kits and they’ve demonstrated no effort toward fostering brand loyalty for the long term.
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If you read what they posted, the Artisan is basically Snapmaker 3.0, and nothing is compatible with the Snapmaker 2.0. The components, mounts, and sizes are all different. The only thing(s) that MIGHT be compatible are the power supply, and possibly some of the cables, if they use the same CAN system.
They could possibly create a module mounting plate for the Snapmaker 2.0 that accepts Artisan module heads, but I doubt that they’ll do that. It could possibly create other problems.
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On the one hand, nice that they’re learning. The quick change toolhead (and platform mentioned but not shown) look clever, as does flipping the vertical rails to be along the shorter side of the rectangular platform to reduce footprint.
On the other hand yes, once again, abandoned. I held off on SM1 due to size, then was gratified to see SM2 in the 3 options. But they’ve still never released the longer rails promised, options for delta or other constructions, yadda yadda and instead morph out this thing.
It looks very nice but I guess I’ll be sticking with the A250 for as long as it holds out. (And I already have spare print head and the newer fast rail set as replacement parts too.) Not sure I have the space for a 350x400 build area even if the design is more efficient in use of desktop space.
Cest lavie or whatever. Nothing about this announcement makes the hardware I have any worse, but it does indicate I don’t have any real ‘upgrade’ path and potentially future constraints on replacement parts even. Oh well…