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I had to go back out to Google to search for relevant content within the forum. The search function barely works and the displayed font is so light, small and spidery it's almost invisible, just to add to the annoyance. It's difficult to imagine how such an outcome is possible.

The Cetus user forum is spectacularly useless.

The settings GUI is a bit unconventional and some of the screens were tricky to find.

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The PC app doesn't seem to include the rather excellent sample models that come with the iOS app unless I missed something.

The 3D printed housing quality was very rough, which is ironic really.

The filament guide tube didn't fit into the hot end housing without some fettling.

Luckily somebody had posted about that on the forum.

No instructions for assembly of the parts for the (separate) spoolholder frame, or pictures on the website.

But it has an interesting (heavily anodised?) surface finish that doesn't seem to require Kapton film, Pritt Stick etc - it remains to be seen how effective this is.

The build plate had some scratches and marks but nothing serious enough to be bothered about.

Has wifi, so no need to bugger about with SD cards, USB cables etc, although there is USB too if preferred.

STL output, although I'm not sure about suitable post processors etc. Sounds as if this would potentially allow output from Fusion360 etc rather than.

The proprietary UP Studio PC app appears to support g-code now although I have not investigated this yet.

You can load and slice models, set all the controls from your phone, start the job and follow progress.

The UP iPhone app is excellent and comes with a large library of sample models.

Requires only screwing together 3 subassemblies and mating 3 electrical connectors.

Very nicely made - 'minimalist but functional'.

Came with 6 nozzles (2 each of 0.2mm, 0.4mm and 0.6mm) - 3 were part of the bonus pack.

Came with every possible fastener and tool required (apart from crosspoint screwdriver) and some filament samples.

Came with a bonus pack of 2 x 500g blue PLA filament.

I ordered it on Wednesday evening and it arrived at work on Friday by 10am via Parcelfarce 24h service.

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A Prusa i3 Mk3 fully assembled is ВЈ900 plus delivery (with a 1 month leadtime currently) and an Ultimaker 2 is about ВЈ2150 delivered - that's over 6 times the price and the reviews are pretty convincing. I'll look at the machine and its first output later. In one night, all was lost!ДЄnyway, I've had the thing up and running now and here's what I think about it now. Before I knew it, I'd suffered one of those finger spasms and I found I'd ordered one.

Products such as the Monoprice come to mind and occasionally there are similar offerings from the likes of Lidl and Aldi.ДЄnyway, on Wednesday evening last week I was online, looking at the Cetus3D MkII which appears to be a pretty decent machine. The price has come down and the performance up to the point where there are some almost decent choices available now. I've been keeping an eye on the budget end of the 3D printer market over the last couple of years. It also cost something like ВЈ4-5k by the time it had been shipped across from the Netherlands. Luckily we had an 'intern' to keep it running. Having said that, it seemed to require endless buggerage to get it to work and keep it working, so at best you might just about describe it as 'prosumer', rather than professional. We found it to be a really handy piece of kit. When I lived in Canada (2010-2014) I was Engineering Director at Delta-Q and bought an Ultimaker2 through / for work. It's just a shame that it resides 200 miles away when I am at work during the week. I think (hope) I've lived that one down now and TBH, the machine itself (The Shiz) has been a revelation. Lat time I had a serious accident with a mouse it resulted in 3 tonnes of Japanese cast iron turning up at the house, which the Domestic Manager wasn't entirely happy about. Working away from home and workshop doesn't seem to play well with me - the resulting cabin fever seems to make me accident-prone and - in particular - susceptible to rodent-related outrages.