A makerspace near our team’s school has a custom designed and built larger-scale 3D printer. I know some folks use the Anycubic Chiron on here, and there are even larger scale printers out there (maybe even up to & exceeding 1 meter cubed). The couple times our team made really big 3DP parts, we broke them into sub-parts and glued them together (worked fine).
For those who have (or have access to) large scale printers, have you found them to be much more useful to your team than more common size 3D printers?
Do folks feel like large scale 3D printers will grow in relevance to FRC?
The single biggest issue with the larger 3D printers is that with increased volume comes increased print time. At work we run Raise3D Pro2 (the Chiron is currently down) and an Ender6, and they often take 3-5 days for a single large part.
Once you send a part, any change may require an extra 3 days or more, and a fresh roll of filament.
My custom built printer is a 15" cube class machine. When I was making stuff for work that was at the limits of its capabilities I used a 1.2mm nozzle so the prints only took a day or so. Lots of bonding multiple parts and creativity to avoid time-wasting supports.
Our stick and plate construction is more time efficient and interatable that large scale 3DP.