Yes, simply speed. That’s how you push innovation. You focus on a metric, prove it works, and gradually make it better so that it’s actually useful. Early printers used like, weed whacker wire, and you had to hand program the gcode, and print it out on a self-made machine, and the results looked like dog shit. Then we got purpose-designed filament, and slicer programs, and retail printers, and the results actually look pretty good.
This is just another new aspect of the technology, the bed movement and hot end are legitimately interesting developments. Optimizing purely based on speed is just how this tech gets experimented with. It can be slowed down for decent quality prints which are still way faster than the alternatives. Other creators can design extrusion settings for higher quality without sacrificing speed. This is like a concept car, impractical for general use and will never see production in its current state, but showcasing possibilities that can be incorporated into production models.
You seem like you’re being intentionally obtuse and ignoring everything I said.
Every Benchy is useless, they’re not supposed to be useful. They’re supposed to be a benchmark, to show success and failure points. That’s their whole purpose. You make a shitty Benchy, then you dial things in and make a better Benchy, then you dial things in even more and make a decent Benchy.
It’s not reinventing the wheel, it’s designing a new wheel as a proof of concept, which can be iterated and improved upon until it’s actually good.
It also looks like shit. Just saying…
Aesthetics weren’t the metric. The first 3D prints like 20 years ago also looked like shit. This is mostly proof of concept.
The tech can be dialed in later, and lead to 3 minute Benchys that look pretty okay.
Okay.
It looks like I could slap it like a mosquito and it would shatter.
So what’s the metric? Simply speed? Cuz this looks absolutely useless for any sort of real world application.
Yes, simply speed. That’s how you push innovation. You focus on a metric, prove it works, and gradually make it better so that it’s actually useful. Early printers used like, weed whacker wire, and you had to hand program the gcode, and print it out on a self-made machine, and the results looked like dog shit. Then we got purpose-designed filament, and slicer programs, and retail printers, and the results actually look pretty good.
This is just another new aspect of the technology, the bed movement and hot end are legitimately interesting developments. Optimizing purely based on speed is just how this tech gets experimented with. It can be slowed down for decent quality prints which are still way faster than the alternatives. Other creators can design extrusion settings for higher quality without sacrificing speed. This is like a concept car, impractical for general use and will never see production in its current state, but showcasing possibilities that can be incorporated into production models.
So you start from the failed useless item (Broken Benchy), and work your way up? WTF? Let’s just reinvent the wheel a dozen times or so…
You seem like you’re being intentionally obtuse and ignoring everything I said.
Every Benchy is useless, they’re not supposed to be useful. They’re supposed to be a benchmark, to show success and failure points. That’s their whole purpose. You make a shitty Benchy, then you dial things in and make a better Benchy, then you dial things in even more and make a decent Benchy.
It’s not reinventing the wheel, it’s designing a new wheel as a proof of concept, which can be iterated and improved upon until it’s actually good.