3DPrinting
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Bontech indx is the future.
Looks like they're using some bullshit proprietary nozzle design...not to mention bullshit proprietary hardware platform.
You have to. The only way it works is with a completely new heating system which requires a completely new nozzle design. Do you not know anything about induction heating? And a bullshit proprietary hardware platform that 100% works with klipper and will be copied by Chinese manufacturers, in fact Bambu already copied it.
Things have to change for them to get better.
Yes a new design is partly required, we agree. But there is zero need for them to do everything they can to enforce vendor lock-in other than them insisting on that bullshit.
Please list the design choices that were unnecessary, why they were unnecessary, and how you would design it differently to avoid "vendor lock in."
By open sourcing electrical specs, hardware specs, design specs, communication specs...so that anyone can make 1:1 drop-in compatible equipment for any single piece of the system.
Name one bontech nozzle, hotend, or extruder you cannot buy a clone of. Also it's not even released.
There's not a 3D printer manufacturer who does what you're asking, which is to hand over years and 100s of thousands of dollars of research and development over to other manufacturers to duplicate. Because you're not making these nozzles at home, you're not building an induction heater at home. Go ahead and try and claim Prusa still does. Even Prusa's latest overpriced beta release printer, that is based on 10 year old tech, still isn't 100% open source.
Yes