3D Printed Comparison: Dragon (Snapmaker) vs Dragon (Bambu)

 

We have previously spent time discussing examples of printing and how a favourite staple of our work was dragons that were popular when we held school events like our 2023 Market Day.

A recent upgrade of machines from our Snapmaker machines to a Bambu H2D has meant that we have been able to look at producing a new range of prints and material - including a new range of dragons that were previously beyond our abilities.

The range of material that is available includes a huge range of predesigned and created prints.   Again without wanting to sound repetitious but the Bambu has the ability to allow us to produce a range of material that is not possible with our current Snapmaker set up - again as we have stated the Snapmaker is now four years old with its hardware set up.

The 'Ice Dragon' (shown left) was produced with some basic rafting between each of the links and took six hours to print.   

The 'How to Train Your' Dragon shown above left took three hours to print, combined several colours - including an eye and tail section.   It contained minimal rafting and had wings that essentially printed as a single print.

The prints are relatively similar in length however the Bambu version has elaborate wings that have the ability to move.   

The excess PLA not required as a result of the printing was produced into a package that came out with the print.    We are printing a limited amount of projects such as this to show these as examples for the students to look at, consider and explore.