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Bambu Lab 3rd Anniversary Sale

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For those looking to start, add, upgrade, etc, their 3D printing journey, here is where I suggest you start. I have had my A1 mini since last September (and I am still in love with it) and now I have added the P1S as the cost effective, print everything I need in the near future, enclosed core x-y and most important for today, a full-size build plate to my collection. At $559.00, it is a no-brainer for me and the AMS will have to wait until I really need one (Christmas?). I can only speak for Bambu Lab as they are the start and current journey for me but I remain amazed and in love.

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Don't know the latest. Depends on what you want to do with it. I use it for fun stuff (toys), decorations, parts, utility items, my own design solutions, etc. I have no issue with it at all. I use both a computer and my phone to operate, monitor and control it as I wish. I believe a lot of the problem (hype) is with hobbiests that want full control over it (software and hardware). I never wanted to be that hobbiest. I use it for the tool it is, in my eyes. I use it straight out of the box as is and continue to be amazed by its speed, accuracy and repeatablility. I send a model to print and it does just that and out of more than a hundred (more or less) prints, I have had a handful of failures that were either because I was lazy and didn't clean the build plate, I ran out of filament or the model was too tall without enough brim to keep it bonded to the build plate.
 
@Susquatch you are the one I was thinking of when I posted this. If you want to get a feel, the A1 mini is $219. If you think your models will exceed 180x180x180 mm, then anything else will work A1 to X1.
 
If there was ever a tool that once you have it you wondered how you did without it, a 3D printer is that tool.

Also they have advanced to plug and play for not a lot of $

For trouble free start with PLA filament

My 2c
 
I wonder if the sale is across different Bambu distributors? I bought some supplies from this outfit before, just checked & the A1 is same price $369. Anyway I'm of the same opinion as post #4, maybe even a step behind. I don't have good WiFi in the detached garage so its manual mode plug in the SD card. Remote would be nice but you still cant tell the printer to kick off the part to begin another so you're going to have to walk one way or another LOL. I haven't even upgraded the firmware. I have put maybe 8 rolls (1 kg/roll) PLA through it on the same 0.4 nozzle, on the stock plate, it prints like new. Having said this, I have zero experience with other printers so take it FWIW.

But I'll be honest, if I didn't have CAD know-how to design my own stuff, the printer would get less use if I was dependent on online models or help from others. Not to put a damper on a 3DP decision but that 's just my own reality. But that is also a good excuse to learn a new skill & accelerate depletion of the family fortune LOL.

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PeterT said:
But I'll be honest, if I didn't have CAD know-how to design my own stuff, the printer would get less use if I was dependent on online models or help from others. Not to put a damper on a 3DP decision but that 's just my own reality.
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This has been my experience. Not much use without CAD know-how. My SV06 basically sits idle because I can't find anything on-line worth printing. I gave up trying to figure out Fusion 360 so the printer isn't much use at all.
 
Susquatch said:
I'm tempted.

What is the status of the bamboo closed architecture smozzle?
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The issue you are most likely to face with Bambu is their WAN based workflow, which requires your computer to send the print job to the printer which sits next to it, over the wire to China where it then tries to connect to your printer (from China). If you do not have a good connection you are hooped.

The controversy was that Bambu limited or prevented other connection options such as PC-LAN-PRINTER. Theres always the SD card route as well. The other major concern is that BAMBU have set themselves on a path towards a closed architecture that may require you to only use BAMBU supplies in the future.

But for anyone concerned about their connectivity, BAMBU's WAN is going to create a lot of headaches.
 
YYCHM said:
This has been my experience. Not much use without CAD know-how. My SV06 basically sits idle because I can't find anything on-line worth printing. I gave up trying to figure out Fusion 360 so the printer isn't much use at all.
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Really?
Collet racks and other shop or machine tool related storage items abound online.
 
Arbutus said:
The issue you are most likely to face with Bambu is their WAN based workflow, which requires your computer to send the print job to the printer which sits next to it, over the wire to China where it then tries to connect to your printer (from China). If you do not have a good connection you are hooped.

The controversy was that Bambu limited or prevented other connection options such as PC-LAN-PRINTER. Theres always the SD card route as well. The other major concern is that BAMBU have set themselves on a path towards a closed architecture that may require you to only use BAMBU supplies in the future.

But for anyone concerned about their connectivity, BAMBU's WAN is going to create a lot of headaches.
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Has Bambu completely disabled the LAN mode?
FWIW my Anycubic machine is always in LAN mode unless I need to do a firmware update.
 
Doggggboy said:
No but you lose some functionality in Lan mode. No camera or SD card access and I think the phone app won't work.
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No camera access would suck.
In Anycubic's LAN mode I have full functionality, just no firmware updates.
 
Most of the fuss was about the way they changed the functionality of a machine you had already bought, which was understandable.
The people who ran print farms with Bambus were pissed because I think they lost Octoprint usability as well.
Those of use who just want a tool that works didn't care much. I upgraded the firmware and still send all my prints into the cloud and they arrive momentarily in my printer. If they want to pirate my version of a coathook, go hard. I'll worry more when I start printing parts for a Small Modular Reactor.
If they try to lockdown the filament ecosystem, there will be a hack. There is ALWAYS a hack somewhere.
Unless I do something wrong, the damn thing just works.
 
YYCHM said:
This has been my experience. Not much use without CAD know-how. My SV06 basically sits idle because I can't find anything on-line worth printing. I gave up trying to figure out Fusion 360 so the printer isn't much use at all.
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Try Tinkercad.
It's free online and nowhere near as full featured as F360 but more than capable of simple models and assemblies.
It's more of a drag and drop program with ready made shapes you can modify and combine, much like tinkertoys or mechano.
You can send the file to your printer or to F360 for a few touchups like chamfering or filleting before sending to your printer.
I suck at F360 but find Tinkercad to be sufficient for a lot of what I need.
 
Doggggboy said:
I'll worry more when I start printing parts for a Small Modular Reactor.
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Omg your working on a small modular reactor too. Wth are you using a cobalt c13 lining or are you going for trilathium for the main core?

Alll kidding aside I think your exactly right the guys running print farms got upset, one they had a disruption in their work flow and two they did rightly have an emotional connection to octoprint. Since the octoprint creator has been a solid member of the 3d print community for a long time. But for average people these printers work amazing actually for price and ability there is no comparison.
 
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