Prusa3 Alternatives

Prusa3 reviews and mentions

• MK4 Printable Parts are now available
  4 projects | /r/prusa3d | 13 Apr 2023

  Back when Prusa-the-person designed the original i3 I'm pretty sure there were no other Free Software CAD tools than openscad. I don't think it's a huge loss if they abandon openscad (as long as STEP files are provided) since the source for the i3 was uhhh... not exactly the paragon of openscad design (magic numbers, magic numbers everywhere). There's a variant which is parametric but hasn't seen any updates since before the MK2. My reprap is based on some bastardization of the Wilson reprap and my own custom 10mm variant of the old community i3 repo, but I managed to make it even worse because I was looking at the z-axis parts upside down and completely hosed the coordinate system and other fun things (the joys of hacking on a large blob of mediocre openscad while also not knowing anything yourself about cad...) and then I got busy and I'm so distant from it now I can never get myself to go back in and fix it.

• How did Josef Prusa and Prusa Research succeed in 3D printing for consumers, whereas Bre Pettis and Makerbot did not and left the market? Both founders and companies have RepRap roots.
  2 projects | /r/prusa3d | 27 Dec 2022

  Prusa also contributed actively to rep rap, making improvements on the mendel printer, and improved the printer through a couple iterations until he hit the third iteration(i3), that is the basis of the MK series. Before shipping his own product, he shared the design on GitHub, and plenty of low cost manufacturers picked up on his source and blatantly produced their own i3 printers.

• [Request] Hey Guys! Does somebody have Prusa Mk1 BOM? I bought this oldtimer with goal of using as much parts as possible to build a Bear, it would help tremendously. Thanks a lot!
  2 projects | /r/prusa3d | 9 Jan 2021

  https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3 is the repository of the Prusa i3 (without "MK" at that time, but I guess it's MK1 then...). I found https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3/blob/master/box_frame/common.tdoc which has some vitamins for the frame; you may look around if you find further *.tdoc files with more parts. Maybe also https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3-vanilla . Also, some README mentions a documentation file, but I could not find it quickly - might want to check for yourself if you find more docs there.

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