Anycubic has delighted 3D printing lovers with a brand new improve, the quick Anycubic Kobra 2. You possibly can order this FDM 3D printer on the official web site for simply $209, or get it with improbable Gambody & Anycubic Kobra 2 Bundles on gambody.com and revel in additional perks corresponding to lovely fashions for 3D printing.

Following Gambody’s time-honored custom, we can be pleased to evaluate the Kobra 2 printer, unbox it, discover each element, specs, and dimensions, unscrew each bolt, and share every thing with you.

Anycubic Kobra 2

The brand new Anycubic FDM printer is available in a small field weighing below 20 lbs (about 9 kg). Whereas unboxing, we like how nicely the Anycubic Kobra 3D printer is packed. Every half is surrounded by a thick layer of polypropylene, which maintains the integrity of all contents even when the field is unintentionally dropped.

The very first thing we see on high is the PEI construct plate. It has turn out to be a wonderful commonplace for 3D printing, and we’re glad that our acquaintance with the brand new Anycubic Kobra begins with this component.

Subsequent, we will observe two massive 3D printer components that join simply utilizing the 4 bolts.

Additionally, we will see a 4.3-inch full-colored LCD Touchscreen (one other glorious commonplace by Anycubic), which we loved working with whereas reviewing the Anycubic Vyper 3D printer. There may be additionally a model new print head, which we’ll focus on in additional element under.

Kobra 2 Print Head

The very first thing catching your eye is the branded Anycubic printer 4-watt fan with two air channels extending to chill the nozzle on either side and permit for extra environment friendly filament cooling. The turbine-type cooler has a pass-through channel for cooling. You will discover related coolers on some highly effective laptops.

There are holes for air flow on the perimeters and an induction sensor to calibrate the gap between the nozzle and the mattress on the reverse aspect.

Right here, you may as well see the highly effective 60-watt Volcano-type heater (quite a bit!) and a small fan behind the radiator to chill it. On high of all of it, you’ll be able to see the NEMA 17 extruder motor, smaller than that used within the earlier Anycubic 3D printer model. NEMA 17 is situated instantly above the hotend, that means it would make the printer head work quicker and simpler.

Anycubic engineers labored nicely on the Kobra 2 printer head design. Basically, we’re happy with its monolithic meeting and ultimate look.

Kobra 3D Printer Body

The primary body has an SD card slot and a USB port as an alternative of a micro USB (what a major enchancment!) for laptop connection on the entrance. On the decrease aspect is a 400-watt energy provide, which is sort of highly effective for this Anycubic Kobra 2 3D printer, and a controller board with a protecting cowl for the processor.

Whenever you unscrew this cowl, you will notice a large cooler that cools the mainboard. It is a superb answer as a result of it operates with much less noise whereas offering a wonderful cooling impact.

Anycubic Kobra 2 has a TriGorilla Professional B v1.0.2 mainboard and HDSC hc32f460 32-bit microcontroller with a Cortex-M4 CPU operating at 200 MHz. The brand new Anycubic printer should not have any efficiency points due to its highly effective core. And also you’ll like the truth that the drivers are quiet.

Apart from, this Anycubic Kobra 3D printer boasts a brand new leveling system, which we’ll look nearer at after assembling and testing the machine.

Evaluate & Meeting

Kobra 2 comes as a normal equipment. It has a small spool of filament to check, a spare nozzle, and an 8 GB flash card with an adapter, with each half individually bagged and numbered. Sadly, there aren’t any slicing pliers for filament within the equipment.

The Anycubic Kobra 2 meeting requires a minimal period of time. It took us half-hour from unboxing to operating the primary take a look at print. All that you must do is join the Z-axis with the Anycubic Kobra 2 mattress, set up the print head, and join the Touchscreen. Then, you’ll be able to get pleasure from Anycubic Kobra specs by making your first 3D prints.

Anycubic Kobra 2 comes with three directions. One shortly explains how you can assemble the 3D printer. The opposite two present a extra detailed description of the method and can be found within the print and digital variations.

We advise you to observe the extremely correct directions that describe the Kobra 2 meeting step-by-step. We had no points, and you’ll succeed, too! Additionally, as famous in our earlier Anycubic 3D printer evaluations, you at all times really feel like having a high-quality branded product while you assemble their machines. Every half is given the proper coat of paint. All Kobra 3D printer components match collectively extremely precisely. The bolts are of excellent high quality, and so on.

Many Anycubic 3D printers are nice. This firm has developed new guides that the elements will experience on we haven’t seen in different manufacturers. Their product is between commonplace guides with rubber rollers and rail guides. Kobra 2 has iron rollers that experience on a spherical rail. You possibly can alter the strain of the wheels by tightening the eccentric nuts, simply as you do on commonplace guides.

After meeting, the Anycubic Kobra 2 3D printer seems improbable. We wish to word a particular protecting connector used for the print head wires, which ought to stop wires from bending throughout the machine operation. As well as, the wheels roll nicely alongside their guides, and we didn’t must tighten the nuts.

Anycubic Kobra 2 Dimensions

‎We talked about the field weight of below 20 lbs (about 9 kg). Now it’s time to look nearer at Anycubic Kobra 2 dimensions. The product is nineteen.13″ x 19.13″ x 16.93″.

Anycubic Kobra 2 Mattress Dimension

The 3D printer dimensions supply a wonderful construct quantity for unimaginable dwelling tasks. Anycubic Kobra 2 mattress dimension is 230 x 230 mm (9.06″ x 9.06″). Nevertheless, the print space is 220 x 220 x 250 mm (8.7″ x 8.7″ x 9.8″), which is sufficient to create a range of fashions, from easy smaller components to advanced objects yow will discover on gambody.com 3D printed market.

The mattress is roofed with a magnetic PEI plate.

Evaluating Kobra 2 to Vyper

Kobra 2 seems much like Anycubic Vyper: the mattress has a inflexible fixation and requires no calibration utilizing springs, and the Touchscreen comes with an interface an identical to Vyper’s.

The primary distinction between Vyper and the brand new Kobra 3D printer is just one motor however two shafts you see in case you look behind the machine. A transmission belt drives the second shaft into movement, having the identical working rules as within the Voxelab Aquila D-1 3D printer we reviewed beforehand.

The Touchscreen has a normal interface as in another Anycubic 3D printers. It really works quick! The flash drive coming with Kobra 2 gives a number of fashions for 3D printing and calibration assessments. Thus, you’ll be able to get pleasure from printing while you assemble Anycubic Kobra 2. You have to full FDM printer mattress calibration beforehand, as described under.

Mattress Calibration

Anycubic Kobra 2 has an up to date LeviQ 2.0 calibration system. It means now you can overlook about calibration utilizing a chunk of paper. The printer’s construct plate is secure and dependable. Utilizing an inductive proximity sensor, the machine first maps the proper distance between the mattress floor and the nozzle tip at 25 factors. After this, a novel contact sensor measures how far the nozzle is above the construct plate. The extruder nozzle preheats and cleans the filament residues on a particular silicone pad.

Your machine is able to print after calibrating the Anycubic Kobra 2 mattress. Relying on the 3D printing mannequin, you may have to calibrate the nozzle top by 0.05 mm (greater or decrease), which you’ll be able to alter within the settings.

To conclude, Kobra 2 mattress calibration is method higher than on different funds FDM 3D printers. Gambody appreciated it rather a lot!

Testing Anycubic Kobra 2 3D Printer

You could possibly discover a reasonably noisy print head fan. We perceive that it’s important to chill filament as shortly as doable while you 3D print at excessive speeds, and that’s why Anycubic put in a strong dual-sided 4.8 W turbine on Kobra 2. However you’ll be able to’t escape physics. The excellent cooling impact comes at the price of noise. To decrease it, you will need to scale back print and fan speeds. Nonetheless, to defend the noisy “monster,” we must always affirm that the fan gives a improbable two-way cooling impact.

Our first calibration take a look at was printing skinny squares on the corners of the construct plate to substantiate glorious mattress calibration.

The following take a look at was to 3D print the long-lasting #3DBenchy boat. The flash drive that comes with the Anycubic printer gives a number of settings for this mannequin that rely on the layer thickness.

Gambody workforce printed a number of ships in numerous settings. Kobra 2 copes nicely with cooling the filament whereas constructing bridges and overhangs. However the excessive velocity might be method too extreme. We imagine the kinematics can not deal with accelerations and jerks at such speeds, though the print head can.

For our evaluate, the subsequent Anycubic Kobra 2 take a look at is to 3D print one of many fashions saved on the flash drive. You possibly can see the top quality of the cooling system while you work on skinny parts, create corners with overhangs, and spot the hole high quality between the components.

After testing Kobra 2, we began to 3D print fashions from Gambody 3D printed market.

Anycubic Kobra Upgrades

When presenting Kobra 2, Anycubic changed the Ultimaker Cura with its AnycubicSlicer and PrusaSlicer profile. We aren’t upset as a result of PrusaSlicer boasts some glorious specs forward of Cura. We like its algorithm for laying layers and dealing with helps.

You’re suggested to not set up the PrusaSlicer model that arrives together with your Kobra 2 as a result of it’s outdated. It’s higher to work with Anycubic Kobra upgrades, so obtain the latest slicer model and switch a Profile for the Anycubic Kobra 2 from Cura saved on the flash drive.

Additionally, Anycubic lets you set up its preset PrusaSlicer profile. There is just one profile setting for PLA with a layer top of 0.2 mm, which is healthier than nothing. Nevertheless, hobbyists whose common slicer possibility is Cura can safely add the Kobra 2 profile with 220 x 220 x 250 mm construct quantity and the Direct Extruder. You should use the settings shared by Gambody together with the speeds described under. We haven’t studied the AnycubicSlicer but, however it appears to be based mostly primarily on PrusaSlicer with some visible interface changes.

3D Printing on Anycubic Kobra 2

The primary correct mannequin we wish to take a look at print on Kobra 2 is Dwarf Bust. It’s a advanced challenge with many nice particulars and overhanging parts.

At first, we tried printing with the usual settings offered by Anycubic, however they aren’t appropriate for constructing correct, extremely detailed fashions. Kobra 2 was too loud.

To enhance this example, Gambody created distinctive settings that contemplate all these info and assist the 3D printer construct excellent tasks with nice particulars and complicated overhanging parts. We examined these settings, and the meeting E.T. the Further-Terrestrial 3D Printing Figurine turned out improbable! Even its skinny fingers printed with out points.

All the pieces is ideal with the retracts, too, however the settings should not commonplace.

The third mannequin 3D printed on Anycubic Kobra 2 is Tyrion 3D Printing Figurine from Sport of Thrones. We printed the one-piece SLS model on the brand new Anycubic FDM printer, and the result’s unimaginable!

Print Settings

Anycubic states that Kobra 2 can function at excessive speeds with a most print velocity of 300mm/s and accelerated velocity of 3000mm/s². Its print head is able to this. Nevertheless, it could assist in case you approached the excessive speeds properly.

You should use the usual settings supplied by Anycubic when printing one thing important with easy sides and with out sharp corners (for instance, a field with rounded edges). However while you want to 3D print high-quality fashions with particulars, lowering the velocity and acceleration by 30 to 40 p.c is healthier. Kobra 2 will nonetheless print quick, however the printing high quality will enhance. Gambody, for example, lowered the speeds and accelerations under the figures shared by Anycubic however saved them greater than those offered by Prusa.

Recommendation: We used tree helps as a result of they save the filament and might be eliminated ideally from the fashions. Anycubic PLA Gray is the perfect filament to make use of when it comes to value/high quality.

It’s time to summarize the professionals and cons of Kobra 2.

Conclusion

Anycubic launched one other hit 3D printer, an entry-level funds FDM machine with high specs and speeds for the value. You may be glad with beginning your journey in 3D printing with Kobra 2. The beautiful fashions Gambody gives will make it easier to enhance it shortly. Think about lowering the noise of the main cooler by altering the print settings, and the Anycubic printer gives you lots of pleasure as you rework unimaginable STL recordsdata into lovely tasks and share your masterpieces in a pleasant Gambody 3D Printing Neighborhood with hobbyists from all around the world.

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