Hahaha. Nice man. You will love that machine. There will still be a slight learning curve, but Joseph Prusa and his team have done everything they can to make that printer one of the easiest to use, and crank out extremely nice prints with. They have done a great deal of testing etc... and setup...
Install sketchup then click the link to the files for the stir plate and download the .skp files. Use the ruler tool and it will tell you everything you need to know.
I havent printed anything huge yet, but I just got a 3dhub order on something pretty large. It will take over 500 grams of filament and over 15 hours to print. Its some short of keg bottom or stand or somethin.
My buddy Justin, who did the majority of the design for the #BigDelta printed...
There is most definitely a learning curve... It takes quite a bit of trial and error and googling to figure out all the little issues etc... The i3 mk2 is probably the closest thing to an affordable plug and play solution, but its 699 and you have to build it, or 899 built.
Nice, ultimakers are nice machines. You can get i3 kits for 200, but most are pretty terrible. If I wanted to get a cheap i3 or something I would get the wanhao duplicator i3, or if I had the money, id get an i3 mk2.
Nice. I am actually toying around with the idea of selling my i3 to get the mk2, or possibly getting the mk2 upgrade kit and trying to make it work with my i3.