Its controlled-climate chamber and largest-in-class build volume bring your prints to new heights, literally. The CubePro does multi-material and triple color printing with super high-resolution at 70-micron layers with ease.
While I am not an engineer or in the business of selling 3D prints, I have found that I am becoming more interested in designing the parts rather than printing them. I would have gladly purchased a 4th generation version of the Cube when it became available.
I learned a lot through experimentation with the Cube 3, your blog and the support provided by the team at 3D Systems. It is good to hear that they will continue to supply the consumables for our 3D printers as I have had a few expensive graphic printers that were discontinued with no consumable support. A healthy company, supporting their customers is much better than having no support at all. I am not mad about it and as a matter fact can understand and support their decisions.
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I too have a bone yard full of products that showed great promise and cost a bundle - video cameras, cell phones, televisions and such. Saddened to get the news about the Cube 3 and 3D Systems consumer division however that happens. This stuff is small potatoes to having bought a $60,000 plumbicon video camera with a five year lease/buy only to have the same company introduce a digital video camera at less than half the price!!! I see the disappointment but, fail to see the beef. Every one of these cost me time and money to learn and use. I have had 1/2" reel-to-reel skip field video, 1/2 inch reel-to-reel EIAJ video, 1" reel-to-reel, 1/2" Beta, 1/2" VHS, 8mm, Hi-8, Digital-8, DVD Digital, Hi-Def Digital, etc.
The only down side is that it will not be 3D Systems that develops the next generation of consumer 3D printers. We own a 3D printer that works, will be continue to be supported for the foreseeable future and will provide us with every bit of the creative potential that it provided us before the announcement. The reality is that market dynamics change radically and quickly in the consumer technology marketplace. I worked on a game system for Hasbro (NEMO Project) in the mid-1980's where they invested over 35 million dollars and pulled the plug.
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The Bally Professional Arcade, a pioneering video game system, went out of business altogether the very month it was named Number One video game by Consumer Reports!!! If I have come to expect one thing it is that great products come and go. My experience as an early adopter of technical products goes back to the late 1960's.