# What was your last purchase? 2.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-Topic\ **Created:** [December 23, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/what-was-your-last-purchase-2-0/66 "2020-12-23T15:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2008
**Author:** ![Tetrafish\_21](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/tetrafish_21/32/89259_2.png) [@Tetrafish\_21](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Tetrafish_21)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 7:06am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/what-was-your-last-purchase-2-0/66/2008 "2024-11-29T07:06:27Z")
I ordered a 3D Printer from Amazon (for Black Friday) and should be getting it later today. The Elegoo Neptune 3 Max. It’s a filament based printer. I debated on getting a resin printer (for the amount of detail you can get from prints), but decided against it since you need a couple other steps to properly finish the prints. Washing and curing. The filament type will have the visible layers. But that’s not much of an issue. I don’t believe this will come with any filament, but that’s okay since I still have a few spools of (I think) PLA that I bought some years back when I was using a ‘PrintrBot’ 3D printer. That one I assembled myself (it was cheaper than buying it already assembled). And while I did print a few thing with that - it still needed to be fine tuned in regards to the nozzle position (height) and appropriate temperature for whatever filament you were using. As for making models, I do have some experience with modeling. Some with AutoCAD and Sketchup. I did download FreeCAD, but will still need to learn my way around that. When I was using the PrintrBot I did have to convert some file types. I’m hoping that won’t be as much of an issue like it was. One thing I didn’t have a lot of knowledge on was including supports for prints that go outward with nothing underneath them… Surely/hopefully that will be taken care of with the FreeCAD or some other program. 🤷‍♂️ I’ll likely post about this in the ‘What’s New’ topic after I get it unpacked. I believe there’s a bit of assembly required, but nothing like when I had to build the PrintrBot. --- _[View the full topic](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/what-was-your-last-purchase-2-0/66)._