I should have built this thing from the word go. I ran this printer for almost a year on my desk right next to my computer. But it was loud and smelly and the high traffic area played havoc on print quality and caused a lot of warping.
Now that it’s tucked away in a back room suspended in a corner by French cleats and sitting directly on top of dense foam and a big ass paver it is merely “audible” but certainly ignorable. There’s also no more headaches from the smell, and my print quality has never been better.
Do yourself and your printer a favor and get an enclosure sorted out asap.
To avoid confusing newcomers: For anyone getting into 3D printing it’s much more space efficient to just get an enclosed printer and not having to deal with a built enclosure. Like the new Prusa core one.
This is still one of the best looking and well integrated solutions I’ve seen for external enclosures though.
And please, don’t print right next to where you sit all day. Proper ventilation and/or filtering is important, even for safer materials like PLA.