Artillery 3D Printer Sidewinder X3 Plus, Large Printing Size, 300mm/s High-Speed and 49-Point Auto-Leveling and Dual-Gear Direct Extruder, Smooth Detail, Automatic Cleaning Nozzle 300x300x400mm

It started well, but shortly fan start make noise. After few prints it baked the Nylon filament in the extruder beyond repair. The bed was not perfectly leveled ever. The auto level sucks. Received replacement.Very loud high pitch noise from fan. Over all very loud printer. Returning again. Very disappointed. I like the size.Update- The size of the printer is tempting. I purchased another one. Upon arrival was obvious that it is lemon. The bed was very loose, impossible to adjust with the eccentrics wheel adjusters. Well I ordered replacement which work fine for 24 hours, than started hitting rear sensor and stripping the drive belt. I try to reinstall firmware, but no improvement. I think I am done with Artillery. To bad, the printer got good potential. I have several Ender 3V2 printers, working perfect for several years.Absolutely NO SUPPORT from Artillery support.After 2 years I decided to give it another try. Maybe they fixed some of the issues already?What a junk. Problems started immediately. Holes were not line up. Printer start display an error messages, but it worked after reset. Well worked for a week and than message "Error: home Y failed" appeared. Since than I try and try, but nothing worked. Disconnecting and plugging back all connections with no success.The printer has good structure but unfortunately does not print. That could be problem for some. Stay a way from this printer and you save yourself a lot of headaches. Absolutely NO SUPPORT from Artillery support. They demanded video as a proof, than another video, than another video and than they stop responding. I 3D print for years. I have many Ender 3D printer versions. There is no trouble free 3 D printer, but at least they are fixable. That part is missing from Artillery 3D printer. I am returning this one after 2 weeks. All together I purchased 5 Artillery 3D printers and none of them last 30 days. Incredible. I have Ender 3 printers working non stop for years. NO MORE ARTILLERY for me.

Fun to use

Printer setup was quick and easy. Novice here so we started slow with some basics. Worked great making its first few prints. Leveling was easy, bed adhesion was hit and miss. Tried printing a bracket to hang something on the wall. Walker alway for a hour after it put down its first layer and came back to what is called the “blood of death”. Basically the printer got its nozzle clogged by hanging up on a print that came loose from the bed. Looks like the elephants foot from Chernobyl. Looks like I will need a new hot end and wires, new nozzle. And also found out the part slid under the bed and cut a wire. So trying to get in contact with there customer service to try to order parts, as they are not listed on there website. More than likely my fault for walking away, but really wish it had more safeguards. Also got an intermittent warning on the screen that said “ warning thermal runaway detected, restarting printer”. This happened a few times but went away after the restart. So a rocky start, but hoping we can rally and get it up and running soon.

Let me start by saying that I’ve been 3D printing for years. I have an Ender 3, Prusa MK3, and a Sidewinder X2. I’ve had the Sidewinder X2 for over a year and have NEVER had an issue with the machine or with any print. After reading the X3 reviews and considering my level of 3D printing knowledge, I decided to give the X3 a try. Sadly, the reviews were spot on.Assembly was not as straightforward as the advertising appears. The holes did not line up. This made it challenging to assemble the printing without putting undue force onto the aluminum extrusions. Once assembled, I spent hours trying to level the bed with the screw knobs. No matter how many times I started over, I could not get all of the points leveled. (Likely a warped plate) I printed a few calibration prints and things seemed good enough for the price I paid. However, the following day I started receiving a “couldn’t home X axis error”. Power cycled the printer and printed another test print. The quality seemed to fade on this print. The next day, I had issues with the Y axis getting stuck and failing before the print started.At this point, my fears that the reviews are accurate was confirmed. This is junk. I love my X2… but this X3 is going back. If the horror stories about this printer are all correct, I will be plagued with ongoing issues and possible hazards. If you’re considering buying….do your research and don’t let the price tag of the X3 sway you from the facts of owning this machine.

I bought one and I loved how easy it is to use and how good of quality the prints are, so I bought another one. I had a project for some large prints, so I bought the plus size.