3DPrinting
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Thanks for sharing your experience. I do hesitate on projects like this for this rreason, it's always the small stuff that seems to get in the way of a streamlined experience. That said, I feel like building one rather than buying off the shelf would give me a lot more know-how about how to troubleshoot and maintain the system I am using, plus I prefer to support Open Source initiatives when I can over walled gardens.
You know, as an aside, this kind of part kitting is one of those things that I think LLMs might actually make a meaningful change in very shortly. No one wants to individually order all the parts on a BOM right now because it is a bunch of labor, but do it once with an activity log of your purchasing behavior and the sites/vendors used and there is no reason it cant be fully automated and shareable as simply as the BOM itself. Add in a function to check pricing and inventory against other related vendors and it could get quite good.
Most Voron folks will usually suggest building as close to stock as you can initially and going from there. LDO's kits modify the stock BOM quite a bit, which can make for a more challenging build. Buying from someone like West 3D. Formbot kits use to stick to the stock BOM fairly well too.
As for support, there's an active discord server and forum you can use to get help. They also have a print it forward program where you're matched with a Voron owner who will print your functional parts for the cost of material.
Nice, thanks!