Things to take into account before buying Prusa i3 DIY kit?

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and I'm considering buying a DIY kit for my first 3d printer.

The questions would be:

Which components are the most important ones in order to get the highest performance possible?/ Which are the most used ones? Can you specify manufacturers of each of them?

Which things I should take into account before buying a DIY kit?

Could someone recommend a generic step by step guide just for reference?

Also I should specify that I'm an architecture student so I would be using it for smal-medium size models with some degree of formal complexity.

Thaks,
Federico
Argentina.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/29/2017 06:22PM by fedezorrozuag.

In general stay away from acrylic frames, they look good, but crack if you stare at them to hard!

see: [www.instructables.com]

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Ultra MegaMax Dominator 3D printer: [drmrehorst.blogspot.com]

Ditto to dust comment!

I have bout a Anet A8, and it's close to crap.
It prints small things decent. But then..
Really low quality all the way. Rods, etc.
Acrylic frame is bad. Haven't cracked it my self. But it flimsy. Combined with warped rods...
Measured.. well. Didn't need to measure precisely. But on my granit flat surface. Rods came out
more than 0.1mm in two directions.. in other words, rods is badly S shaped. One rod was warped in 3.. directions.
3D is cool.. but what the heck! Reason is no cooling and other mishandling when cutting.
Belts is cheapest plastic, etc, etc.

In other words. Stay away from the cheapest.
I think a original prusa kit, i3 mk2 is the Best Buy!

If you are like me, like a challenge and go a interesting and probably stupid path. Then buy a Anet.

Cheers from Sweden

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2017 01:35PM by SatorCodex.

As Dust said - don't do acrylic frames
Build from scratch vs buying a kit - unless it's a genuine Prusa

My i3 Build(s)
[www.instructables.com]

Steve