I bought a Bambu A1… it just works. Multimaterial. App. They have their own file server setup with a hosting site; and when you upload the files have profiles so you’re not guessing how someone changed something.
Supports? Yup. Just work, no tweaking. Ive been printing for 4 days straight. No tweaking. Their textured PEI bed is magic. The hardware routine for multimaterial by purging into a device attached to the x axis and then using a prime tower works flawlessly. App? You’d think it’s silly, but because their file environment is attached to it, you just click on things and it goes to the printer. Only complaint I have is the bed size.
In other questions, why does my Bambu use 220 for the default on pla? Speed? Why are the layers so invisible even at high speeds/higher spacing? Is it just inherent to belt drives?
Anyways, I guess I’m soul searching all the time and energy I put into making my snappy work. I still can’t get multi material to work every time. PVA jams most times.
This is not a shit on Snapamker thread. I don’t understand what makes a Bambu different. It looks plastic and like a toy. But, the darn thing works.
Factory calibration vs user calibration. Bambu has taken nearly all the work out of it. They are quickly becoming the Apple of 3D printers, which is really no surprise since nearly their entire developer/engineer team originated from the DJI drone company. There is a LOT of behind-the-scenes stuff that makes the machines so different from each other. BambuLabs used a Voron Trident as the benchmark for designing their first machines and have built off of that. Snapmaker is basically just a multi-function Creality Ender 3; a night-n-day difference in almost every way. Snapmaker focused on “beefy and robust” asthetics, while BL focused on performance where it matters. Snapmaker is a Subaru Baja, BL is a Ferrari Enzo. We can try to compare them all we want, but they are completely different universes and uses. A Jack-of-all-trades will never match the single function performace of a dedicated professional.
As a 3D printer the SM is pretty terrible, but I also bet the BL A1 would eat itself the first time it tries to run a CNC project.
Another question for you smart guys… My A1 seems to bleed filament to ensure the chamber is clear before it dumps it with a mechanical motion… from what I can tell with the snappy, it wants to do that with the cylinder… but it isn’t always successful. The bumps it leaves can have interactions and those interactions cause the wipe tower to fail… then print failure.
Is it possible to make something like that? a mechanical flapper device that we dump waste into and it flicks to the side?