You still on the fence to get a 3d printer?

[Janger]

Dont listen to that John, he's talking out his behind, listen to this John. Seriously entry level printers are the minilathe of 3D printers.
Would you go out and buy a minilathe?

Put that $250 into a Bambu X1 and you wont regret it. I guarantee it.

Put that $250 into a Prusa Core one kit, you wont regret it. I guarantee it*.


*if not you can sell it. Haha.

I think I need to to go buy a knee mill 3dp.

@YYCHM Craig if you want to see my low end A1 mini...

It will be. I'm delighted with mine.

@Arbutus your P1S - are you printing tricky materials? Nylon, ASA, PC, PC-CF? Bambu hints the X1C is more appropriate for this but the specs are so similar - I'm wondering if a P1S would be fine? The P1S with AMS is $999CAD, the X1C is $1699 so $700 more. It's not clear it's worth it.

 

[DavidR8]

I think I need to to go buy a knee mill 3dp.

@YYCHM Craig if you want to see my low end A1 mini...


@Arbutus your P1S - are you printing tricky materials? Nylon, ASA, PC, PC-CF? Bambu hints the X1C is more appropriate for this but the specs are so similar - I'm wondering if a P1S would be fine? The P1S with AMS is $999CAD, the X1C is $1699 so $700 more. It's not clear it's worth it.

All of the chatter online says the P1S is the best value vs the X1C.

 

[Janger]

What do you need to know to run a 3d printer and what are most of you using? Fusion? FreeCAD? Others? I started learning FreeCAD a couple of years ago for the plasma cutter that has yet to happen, but recently, tried it. It has been updated from a 0.19 to a 1.0 and I think I am at the bottom of the learning curve again. I know you can download projects from various sites, which is cool, (I have benefited already thanks to @Darren ) but I think my projects would be of my own needs, therefore, would need to design something in a CAD, I think.....?

I use Fusion but...I've seen people hacking stuff out fast in tinker cad. I just gave it a try and it's pretty good! I'm disappointed Autodesk has their mitts all over it but it looks a lot easier than the CAD route. You'll want CAD I'm sure later but it seems to be pretty capable and productive to do a lot!

 

[Darren]

for very simple things, Bambu Studio has worked for me. I've been playing around with TinkerCad and Fusion, but i'm pretty clueless with it as of now.

 

[DavidR8]

My go-to CAD for all things 3D printing is Alibre Atom. Many thanks to @jcdammeyer for recommending it!

 

[jcdammeyer]

For the Bambu AMS experts out there I do have a question. I decided to print a rock tumbler drum in PETG. First time printing PETG on this printer. I have the spool in location 3. Even though there wasn't anything loaded in location 1,2 or 4 it still complained that I wasn't allowed to select PETG because I'm not allowed to mix filaments.
Only after I told it all 4 locations had PETG did it appear to slice and then start up the process. It's now printing.

Maybe others will not be confused by this approach but I don't understand or know how to tell it which filament I want it to use for slicing. And then what reel I want it to use.
Anyone know of a tutorial that addresses this? Like one that doesn't use the encoded Bambu Filament.

 

[DavidR8]

For the Bambu AMS experts out there I do have a question. I decided to print a rock tumbler drum in PETG. First time printing PETG on this printer. I have the spool in location 3. Even though there wasn't anything loaded in location 1,2 or 4 it still complained that I wasn't allowed to select PETG because I'm not allowed to mix filaments.
Only after I told it all 4 locations had PETG did it appear to slice and then start up the process. It's now printing.

Maybe others will not be confused by this approach but I don't understand or know how to tell it which filament I want it to use for slicing. And then what reel I want it to use.
Anyone know of a tutorial that addresses this? Like one that doesn't use the encoded Bambu Filament.

Surely YT has something on this. Or the Bambu wiki?

 

[Janger]

For the Bambu AMS experts out there I do have a question. I decided to print a rock tumbler drum in PETG. First time printing PETG on this printer. I have the spool in location 3. Even though there wasn't anything loaded in location 1,2 or 4 it still complained that I wasn't allowed to select PETG because I'm not allowed to mix filaments.
Only after I told it all 4 locations had PETG did it appear to slice and then start up the process. It's now printing.

Maybe others will not be confused by this approach but I don't understand or know how to tell it which filament I want it to use for slicing. And then what reel I want it to use.
Anyone know of a tutorial that addresses this? Like one that doesn't use the encoded Bambu Filament.

I suspect perhaps John you were trying to print PETG but the AMS spool was set to PLA or vice versa. I was struggling with this today. It gave an error about mixing and would not print.

 

[Doggggboy]

For the Bambu AMS experts out there I do have a question. I decided to print a rock tumbler drum in PETG. First time printing PETG on this printer. I have the spool in location 3. Even though there wasn't anything loaded in location 1,2 or 4 it still complained that I wasn't allowed to select PETG because I'm not allowed to mix filaments.
Only after I told it all 4 locations had PETG did it appear to slice and then start up the process. It's now printing.

Maybe others will not be confused by this approach but I don't understand or know how to tell it which filament I want it to use for slicing. And then what reel I want it to use.
Anyone know of a tutorial that addresses this? Like one that doesn't use the encoded Bambu Filament.

In the Bambu slicer under the prepare tab you can select the item you are slicing, right click and at the bottom of the drop down you can change the filament you want to use providing it is already loaded in the AMS.

 

[jcdammeyer]

I suspect perhaps John you were trying to print PETG but the AMS spool was set to PLA or vice versa. I was struggling with this today. It gave an error about mixing and would not print.

The spool #3 was set to Generic PETG. Spool #1 was set to Bambu PLA.

In the Bambu slicer under the prepare tab you can select the item you are slicing, right click and at the bottom of the drop down you can change the filament you want to use providing it is already loaded in the AMS.

OK. When this print is done I'll try that. It shouldn't be this hard IMHO.

 

[quitereal]

Having an 8x8x8 or larger enclosed is great for fancier materials and bigger objects, but i find the majority of what i print is smaller pla items for which that mini bambu would be great. And I think its a good value. Really you should get that mini, a larger enclosed one and a resin one so they dont get lonely.

 

[Doggggboy]

The spool #3 was set to Generic PETG. Spool #1 was set to Bambu PLA.

OK. When this print is done I'll try that. It shouldn't be this hard IMHO.

Just different. I mentioned this before but Ashley's print lab on YouTube has lots of good tips for Bambu users and he's not trying to sell shit either.

 

[jcdammeyer]

Having an 8x8x8 or larger enclosed is great for fancier materials and bigger objects, but i find the majority of what i print is smaller pla items for which that mini bambu would be great. And I think its a good value. Really you should get that mini, a larger enclosed one and a resin one so they dont get lonely.

I have been thinking about a resin one... Silly me... Laser cutter too... Silly me...

 

[PeterT]

for very simple things, Bambu Studio has worked for me

@Darren (0.8 week Studio Newby here.) Why do you say 'for very simple things'? What in Studio is limiting or clunky or whatever compared to another slicer you are using?

 

[DavidR8]

I have been thinking about a resin one... Silly me... Laser cutter too... Silly me...

I would do a hard pass on the resin printer. I have an Elegoo Saturn and the thing is a finicky as all get out. I have tweaked and tinkered for hours and have about a 10% print success rate. Not to mention the stink of the resin, post processing and cleanup. The prints are very brittle and from what I've seen a .02 nozzle on a Bambu will do almost the same level of detail with zero hassle.

 

[Darren]

@Darren (0.8 week Studio Newby here.) Why do you say 'for very simple things'? What in Studio is limiting or clunky or whatever compared to another slicer you are using?

It's probably more me that's the limiting factor. Compared to what I have seen in real cad programs, Bambu Studio doesn't really do a lot as far as designing more complex parts from scratch. For example, I was not able to add a fillet radius to an inside corner on a part. I have been able to do most of what i have needed, and modified several parts by adjusting scale, etc. I have been way too busy to fully jump into cad, but i feel that I am going to have to soon.

 

[DavidR8]

It's probably more me that's the limiting factor. Compared to what I have seen in real cad programs, Bambu Studio doesn't really do a lot as far as designing more complex parts from scratch. For example, I was not able to add a fillet radius to an inside corner on a part. I have been able to do most of what i have needed, and modified several parts by adjusting scale, etc. I have been way too busy to fully jump into cad, but i feel that I am going to have to soon.

I would give Alibre Atom a hard look.

 

[PeterT]

It's probably more me that's the limiting factor. Compared to what I have seen in real cad programs, Bambu Studio doesn't really do a lot as far as designing more complex parts from scratch.

Shows you what I know. I thought Bambu Studio was predominantly a slicer with a few extra CAD-ish features. I tried its text tool mostly help figure out my CAD generated text issues but didn't even think to look at other CAD like features. Reason I ask is I just started to watch this 101 series & some of his opening remarks was 'as good as & in some situations better' than Cura & Orca & he seems to have his fingers in many. But I'm sure its like most things, everyone has preferences & prior experience.

Also m I correctly understanding that print files are not directly transferrable or readable by other slicers? Bambu cant read Cura & vise-versa? I don't mean STL or STEP 'source' files, I mean the sliced/gcode files

 

[Arbutus]

I think I need to to go buy a knee mill 3dp.

@YYCHM Craig if you want to see my low end A1 mini...


@Arbutus your P1S - are you printing tricky materials? Nylon, ASA, PC, PC-CF? Bambu hints the X1C is more appropriate for this but the specs are so similar - I'm wondering if a P1S would be fine? The P1S with AMS is $999CAD, the X1C is $1699 so $700 more. It's not clear it's worth it.

Yes - including Nylon-GF. No issues with anything so far actually, with the exception of ASA.

Some filaments just refuse to work with the supplied PEI plate, for example POM (DELRIN) and Polypropylene, so some blue glue (PVA, IIRC) and a hotter than usual bed can solve that.

Generally, the supplied filament profiles for the 'generic' filaments have proven to be quite good. There's more variation with PLA (Plus, Pro, HF, CF, matte, glitter, etc) so those fringe types seem to need a bit of tweaking.

PETG-HF is my current go-to plastic. It prints fast (HF), plus there is almost no stringing and the surface finish is near perfect. For machine parts I like PETG-CF or the Bambu Nylon-Glass PA-GF.

 

[DavidR8]

Shows you what I know. I thought Bambu Studio was predominantly a slicer with a few extra CAD-ish features. I tried its text tool mostly help figure out my CAD generated text issues but didn't even think to look at other CAD like features. Reason I ask is I just started to watch this 101 series & some of his opening remarks was 'as good as & in some situations better' than Cura & Orca & he seems to have his fingers in many. But I'm sure its like most things, everyone has preferences & prior experience.
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Also m I correctly understanding that print files are not directly transferrable or readable by other slicers? Bambu cant read Cura & vise-versa? I don't mean STL or STEP 'source' files, I mean the sliced/gcode files

When I export a sliced file from Bambu Studio I get a gcode file but it has a file extension of file_name.gcode but the file type is Gcode3mf files (*.gcode.3mf)
When I export from Sovol Cura I get a gcode file with a file type of *.gcode