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

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.

I purchased two of these printers and neither will finish a print consistently.I am an experienced 3D printer owner having printed thousands of items with half a dozen different printers. I have two of their previous models which have worked perfectly for years ( the X1 ) and bought the X3+ printers hoping for an upgrade in performance and quality.To their credit: I was able to unbox, assemble and print the test boat on these printers inside of 30 minutes.After that, most prints would not finish a complete print. There is no pattern or consistency to the failures, they just stop extruding filament partway through a print. I have been troubleshooting with them via email for weeks to no avail. This happens with multiple brands of filaments and there is no physical blockage as they will manually extrude just fine after the print fails. The extruders just stop responding partway through the print while the head keeps moving through the rest of the print.We have done firmware updates, totally unassembled the print heads and hot ends to check for issues, replaced tips and internal print head pieces to no avail. I have also tried all manner of troubleshooting presented in community forums and groups relating to these printers to no avail. After weeks of troubleshooting and wasting kilos of filament on failed prints I gave up on these printers and the brand completely.

While it could be an upgrade from earlier models, there could be quality control problems with the printer: For one, my build plate doesn't seem completely even/flat.Also, some design choices make very little sense too: the nozzle the printer uses is unique: I don't know if standard volcano nozzles that the earlier models use can be used here, and when they inevitably stop selling them for whatever reason, you have a dead printer unless you can modify hot ends (I cannot).As for print quality: It's fine. The build plate being textured is quite odd, but I have more or less gotten accustomed to it, and if you don't like the texturing on your prints, a raft will suffice.

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.

Fun to use

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.

The media could not be loaded. Es una impresora muy bien lograda. Rápida y silenciosa

Taken me 3 days just to minimise the Y wobble - device has faulty rollers and self tightening roller bolts that don't tighten!Given the amount of other people reporting the same issue on line - I must assume I have purchased an $800 AUD lemon!Printer has now stopped printing all together - hot end just doesn't extrude. Will cost $300 AUD to send back to America which is not a cost effective option.... DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER!

The media could not be loaded. El diseño está muy bien, pero el problema es que la cama queda demasiado floja en la parte trasera, por más que se intentó ajustar la excéntrica quedaba demasiado alejas del eje e incluso se podía mover fácilmente.Intentaré pidiendo otra maquina del mismo tipo o quizá vaya por la X4

The media could not be loaded. Compré dos impresoras, ya que la familia Artillery tenemos en el taller, pero estas fueron muyyy mala experiencia, desde que llegó la cama súper floja, no se movía el eje y , los motores suenan, además de que cuando calientan el hot end tiene error, la tiene que reiniciar varias veces y cuando logra imprimir marca. Error ya que empieza subir temperatura de forma irregular , llegando hasta los 310 grados, ten cuidado no las puedes revisar ya que tienen sello de seguridad, si te sale mal mejor regrésala, una penas por esta marca que me había salido súper bien con las x2

Lo primero que debes hacer al ensamblarla es calibrarla, y desde la calibración traía problemas de firmware que procedieron a dañar el hardware de la propia impresora y el servicio post venta tardo semanas en atenderme...Se que no fui el único por qué en Youtube ví videos de gente con el mismo problema...Lamentablemente Artillery ya no es lo que algún día fue...