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As a new owner of a p1p. It's the single best decision I've made as far as the 3d printing hobby goes. I cannot tell you how much time and money I sunk into my old bed slinger printer and the results never even got close to this thing out of the box.

The only downside? You're gonna absolutely tear through filament because of how well and fast it prints.

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Fusion 360. Free for home use and it's really not as bad as some people make it out to be. A little tricky to get the hang of first but there are thousands of tutorials out there.

I had absolutely zero 3d modeling experience prior to diving into fusion360 and I am still really new to it, but I'm quite enjoying it.

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I am officially retiring my Wanhao i3 Duplicator v2 on Friday when my BambuLabs p1p arrives.

Well... sort of. I am stripping the i3 of parts and I am going to use them to start building a Voron 0.2. Most of the parts are junk, but I should be able to re-use the motors, the SKR Mini e3, and a few other items/upgrades from the i3.

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Yea, the prusa Mk4 is a great option for you, but honestly even an mk3s kit might be worth looking into. Save a bit of money and you can always buy the upgrade kit to the mk4 later down the line of you deem it necessary.

If you want a printer working straight out of the box and don't care about it being closed source, I cannot recommend the p1p enough. it has been night and day change from my last printer. literally just set it and forget it.

I would definitely steer clear of the ender 3s or other i3 style clones. You spend 95% of your time trying to tune and fix your printer instead of actually using it.

Also, since you don't care about printing anything other than pla, you shouldn't need an enclosure. with any of the mk3s, mk4, p1p, or x1c you are going to be able to print pla and petg perfectly fine with minimal tweaking.

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Been using PIA for years. Never had any issues. As others have said I've bought bulk subscriptions and you can get insanely low prices for it. I have it set up on multiple devices. Mobile app also works good as it has a built in DNS level as blocker.

Port forwarding works super well. They have clients for a ton of Linux flavors but you can always just use the ovpn files.

All in all, despise getting bought out by a pretty shady company I haven't found enough of a reason to switch off.

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The bambulabs p1p. It just dropped in price to $599 USD. Not sure what that exchange rate is.

It is an absolutely freaking fantastic printer. I have been kicking myself for days now for not buying this thing sooner.

It sucks that it's not open source, but if you want a no fuss printer that just works, the p1p is hands down the best available on the market at that price point.