3d print multiple materials?

[RonnieS]

Originally Posted by Mason987

the 2x does print ABS. We have one. We bought it this time last year and had little success with it. I finally pulled it apart to find it came assembled wrong from factory. The cheap hex bolts they used to put it together just strip out so I had to order all new screws just to it back together after reassembling it properly.

When we get it running this time my opinion may change. but the fact that it came assembled wrong really irks me, because there is no diagrams or manuals on how to assemble anything correctly. I contacted makerbot via phone and email when we first started having issues with it and they kept telling us it was a bad filament stepper motor. After playing around with it a little more we found that the cable for the stepper motor on the X-axis was bad. The cables are meant to be rigid and the cable for the X-axis moves frequently and eventually shorts itself out. Took me awhile to find an entire thread about people having this problem.

I hate to say these things about makerbot because when i first discovered them I thought it was awesome. Maybe we're just one very unfortunate case, but I'm personally not happy with it. We did buy this right before Stratasys bought them, so maybe their quality control is better now.

We are between the Replicator and Replicator2x. Now the Replicator has the assisted leveling and I have heard that the leveling of 3d printers in fairly important, should this be a factor? If not, how hard are they to level??