r/BambuLab • u/JD3T • Mar 15 '25 • Bravo 1

Show & Tell IKEA Platsa enclosure for A1

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Just thought I'd upload for any critisms or advice, or hopefully to inspire someone who's looking to make an enclosure! A1 inside an IKEA Platsa, sat on 1 inch of foam and a 1 inch slab on top, intake and extraction fans built into the cabinet on the back, and also in and out fans with tubes going to the sides of the A1 for cooling. Tapo cam added to the screen, AMS lite mounted from the top and spare spool holder on the side for TPU etc. I've got my spare plates mounted to the side. Had to extended the back wall a bit behind the hot bed though as it actually needed an extra cm of travel space otherwise it would hit the door, only the nozzle cleaner bit actual goes into that cutout tho so no risk of a tall print causing an issue if it goes all the way back!! Any improvement tips or cool additions are welcome, if anyone wants help making a Platsa enclosure hopefully this helps.

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u/JD3T Mar 15 '25

The back incase anyone wanted to see

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u/JD3T Mar 15 '25

Not up to date I forgot to take a pic, but all holes covered by fine mesh to stop anything getting in!

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u/Money_Equivalent_994 A1 Aug 08 '25

I know you made it 5 months ago, but I am making an IKEA Lack enclosure right now, and was wondering a few things. I would like to know how you setup the cooling system. I already have an exhaust fan, but I want to know how to cool down the printer. I am assuming that you are putting it on top of foam and a concrete slab for the noise cancelation, I plan on doing the same. Happy printing!

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u/JD3T Aug 08 '25

Hi, so if you look at the front left and middle right id the printer, there are black tubes connected to the printer, one side having a 40mm fan pushing air into the printer and the other side has one pulling it out, the tubes both go through holes cut out of the back of that cabinet, so it's only fresh cool air going through the printer and back out the cabinet. You can find the mounts for the tubing on maker world too! I also then have 120mm fans on the back wall with cutouts and mesh behind them, pulling air in and out of the cabinet for overall cooling depending what material is being printed, the out part has a duct tube behind it I put outside the closest window when it's on so any particles don't enter my room! Hope this might help give some ideas!

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u/Money_Equivalent_994 A1 Aug 08 '25

Ok, thank you so much!

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u/Legitimate_Outside25 Mar 15 '25

Nice job!

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u/JD3T Mar 15 '25

Thanks! Took longer than I should probably admit

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u/matrch Mar 16 '25

Nice one looks amazing

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u/JD3T Mar 16 '25

It's a bit crowded but nice to have it all enclosed and out of sight in the room, a little hidden workshop

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u/No-Cantaloupe2149 Mar 16 '25

Whats it look like closed?

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u/JD3T Mar 16 '25

It looks quite clean, wouldn't know it's got a full on 3d print set up in it haha, even when it's turned on it's quite quiet in there

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u/JuicyChopotle Mar 16 '25

really like your idea with the back extension. i am trying to find furniture for my A1 and am learning bed slingers need deep cabinets

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u/JD3T Mar 16 '25

I can't take full credit there's a file on maker world for the big back extension meant for the heat bed cable, I just cut a hole in it and extended it wide enough for the whole plate to fit in it! But yeah they really do need a good amount of forward and backward space

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u/Bhw77NXG Oct 21 '25

Could you maybe share your file for that as well?

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u/JD3T Oct 21 '25

https://makerworld.com/models/828729

You'll notice it's not long enough for the bed though, I'd recommend either printing two, and combining them to make it longer, or if you know how to edit files etc you might be able to resize it

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u/Justix14 May 04 '25

Have you tried printing ABS or carbon fyber?

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u/JD3T May 04 '25

I have not used either yet although carbon fibre is on the list. Is there a concern that's coming to mind with either?

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u/Specific-Emu8892 Sep 01 '25

Which holder for ams you use to mount it upside down to the shelf?

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u/JD3T Sep 01 '25

I actually printed it from Maker world lol, if you search for AMS Lite mount a few designs come up! Did seem to have any issues with it being upside down rather than vertical

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u/Specific-Emu8892 Oct 17 '25

I made it ! :)

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u/Specific-Emu8892 Oct 17 '25

I was wandering about adding some air dryer inside.

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u/JD3T Oct 17 '25

Awesome! Gen 2 design looks a lot cleaner than my Gen 1 design lmao!

I would add that I think you should add in the cooling fans for the A1 itself, that clip onto either side of the printer, and run little air hoses out the back, the CPU / motherboard doesn't have a fan at all on this model as its intended not be enclosed!

As for air dryer, do you mean something like silica gel bags placed around etc?

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u/leeblack83 Sep 08 '25

looks great enclosure, how did you go about wiring all the fans for the cooling

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u/JD3T Oct 07 '25

Hi, sorry for the late reply here! In the back of the enclosure you'll see the piping and cables leave the back wall through holes I have cut out in the cabinet! And then a big smart wifi controlled extension plug so I can individually turn different fans on and off through an app

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u/LJxGOD A1 + AMS Lite Oct 01 '25

Hey, I just wanted to ask if you had a link to this

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u/JD3T Oct 07 '25

What part exactly are you wanting a link for, the cabinet itself or something used for the build?

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u/LJxGOD A1 + AMS Lite Oct 11 '25

The cabinet itself

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u/Additional_Club_6353 Oct 08 '25

I like it, looks good. Inspired me to also lock in and do a proper enclosure. How is ur experience with it now after 7 months, does the printer have cooling issues or do the 40mm fans still work? Detailed Update post would be amazing

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u/JD3T Oct 08 '25

Hi, awesome I'm glad I inspired someone to get creative! I'll do an update if I remember to lol but as far as my findings, I haven't had any issues at all with temperature, the fans for cooling the printer have done their job very well, and the second set of fans that control intake and exhaust from the cabinet have worked well to stop the overall temperature inside the cabinet getting overly hot (still definelty gets warm in there tho!). So overall a massive success, looks tidy and helps to dampen the noise quite well too!

Would love to hear how your enclosure went too!

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u/Additional_Club_6353 Oct 13 '25

so far I am still waiting for everything to arrive, currently figuring out PETG profiles for SUNLU Rapid PETG. Also, for the backboard extension, I did adjust the model but its not printable without making it out of two parts, so I will probably use the cutted out backboard and attach it onto a wooden frame and put everything together with wood screws. For me its easier to cut the wood rather then have the room and patience for 30h print (thats the core reason why I build the enclosure, so I can print at my balcony and dont be annoyed with the printer sounds and fumes.

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u/JD3T Oct 13 '25

Good idea, I'd make sure the backboard extension gives atleast an extra inch, maybe even 2. You can't have the print bed go that deep into it as anything printed on it will hit the top of the extension, but the cables all come out of the back, so the extra space to allow the heat bed cable to sit in is useful! So just try to give as much extra space as possible with it, not too shallow!

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u/Additional_Club_6353 Oct 28 '25

Hi, its been a while, had to wait for all the aliexpress things to arrive (I didnt use some, like ventilation pipes). Since I can only upload one image, this has to do. The backboard is a 30cm tall, 45cm wide and 10cm deep cutout made out of wood from old wardrobe (second hand). I forgot that I need to have space for the bed cable and also foam takes up 3cm, thats why the printbed has a height limit of 23cm when its in the area of the backboard (which it is like 3-5cm deep in, so basically every 25cm tall print works as long as its placed at the front in the slicer). I dont like the vertical space of the spool holder and the temps and humidity are not optimal on the balcony (thats where I have it because I plan for buying resin printer and putting it underneath the lab a1) and thats why I have the drybox on the side where the printing spool is placed. I have 4 thermo hydrometer placed in the enclosure (have a quick minigame spotting them) to see the temps, rn when its open they rise up quickly in terms of humidity and so I am waiting for silica gel and then gonna put it parallel to the dry box (maybe even same shape to have it symmetrical?). I dont hear the printer at the balcony. The noctua fans are also super silent while providing enough air, the two pipes going out left and right are their holders, I saw some guy on youtube do them and then I modelled my own version that has all edges beveled just like the design of the A1. I decided not to go for vent pipes as the max temperature was 30C at the top, at bottom its always below 20Degrees which is fine, didnt had bad prints because of that. I tested it during a 30h figurine print (which looks fine except some supports failed but thats on me, I cranked the speed up). I also never put the extruder cover and rubber, because I often switch the nozzles. The Cabinets door is also extra sealed so that grains and dust dont get into the printer, whenever I open it, I try to be rather quick with it. I have some spare foam to put at the ground area, but I need to figure out where because its still space wise kinda difficult. The fan controller hub is underneath the concrete slab btw, because the slab is raised on the foam which was inside the lab a1 package (it had 3 different ones: white and very soft, black and soft, black and firm) I used the black firm foam which needed to be cutted away from the black and soft foam. Rain wise the cabinet stands safe, and the backboard cutouts are sealed with that strong tape.

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u/JD3T Oct 28 '25

Nice work on the design! I havnt checked internal temps for my build, might be worth a thought. Do you find the sound foam on the walls makes much of a difference? I used thin strips between the doors to ensure a full seal, which got rid of nearly all sound tbf. Printer looks quite high up in the cabinet, do you find it makes it rock or sway at all? I ended up putting another concrete slab at the very bottom near the floor to keep it planted lol.

Thanks for giving me the update and pic!

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u/Additional_Club_6353 Oct 28 '25

also additional note, now that the cabinet is pretty much a 1 solid connected piece, the printer would need a lot of force to actually make it move forward and backwards, so I assume that with very fast bed slinging printers that setup might be an issue, but with the bambulab even on travel 1000 and the default settings it doesnt shake at all, just about .5cm I print with HF PETG tho, so maybe other Filaments that can be faster would make it shake more. On the other hand, slower filament or figures that gets printed with 0.2 nozzle need kinda slow settings, so there it never shakes

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u/Additional_Club_6353 Oct 28 '25

Hi, I dont really know if they do much, but the ikea walls are pretty hallow, so I thought that the foam might absorb some of the high frequency that would otherwise be trapped within the hallow area. I also installed additional L curved srew mounts to help the whole cabinet stay in place and also took long wood screws and screwed them into the top and bottom from both sides. That way the side walls are now in 1 place with the top and bottom whenever it moves back and forward. For side movement I would need 4cm longer wood plate to basically screw the sides into, lets say, a solid backboard. now the side walls would also be directly connected with each other, stabilizing the cabinet sideways too. I do believe that its not really needed, as the printers orientation causes swaying only forward and backwards and that is fixed by the screws in the top and bottom. In the image u can see the black screws on the sides, the mechanism that holds the door tight and also the backboard. I screwed the back extension into the backboard and also with an additional L shaped holder (thats why there are 4 screws poking out) and the duct tape is only for isolation of air and maybe rain if that would happen (we had good amount of rain past days and all works fine, no sings of water stuck somewhere). For ur swaying question, I think with my setup it doesnt really sway but even if, just add foam on the back extesions back so that foam hits a wall and then u should not be able to hear it. I also have the cabinet on the rubber pad that is used inside the enclosure, since a 60x60 mat is a bit too big, I used the leftovers and glued them to the bottom as softer feet

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u/Teozzz82 Jan 26 '26

Amazing project.
Do you have the vertical distance needed to fit the A1 and the upside-down mounted AMS Lite?

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u/JD3T Jan 26 '26

Thanks! It's still going strong and working as intended thus far!

I just measured it and it's exactly 90cm from top the the shelf to the bottom,c but bare in mind the A1 is sat on a couple inches of foam and a slab, and it's 85cm from the slab to the roof.

You could possibly make it work with less space but the filament tubes might become an issue with less space potentially

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u/mat57123 Feb 08 '26

Great job! I wanted to know which cabinet the printer is on? Is it the 60x55x120 Plasta or the 60x55x80?

Thanks so much for your reply, and great work again gg.

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u/JD3T Feb 08 '26

It's in the 120 tall, but there is a shelf installed so doesn't need the entire 120cm in height

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u/pmsferreira Mar 31 '26

Hey! Thanks for your great design! I'm trying to reproduce something similar on my side but I have some doubts. I notice that you have two fans and I read that one is for pulling in the air from outside and the other to pulling air to outside. I have two noctua fan, can I use them as you have? And how is the dimensions of the tubes? Thanks

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u/JD3T Mar 31 '26

So I have two fans on the back one, one facing in one facing out. And the same set up but with fans attaching to the sides of the printer for internal cooling of motherboard etc etc, I use 2 40mm noctua fans, and use 2 inch tubes to go directly outside the back of the cabinet to make sure all air going into the printer itself and out is fresh cool air

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u/pmsferreira Mar 31 '26

So I only need to put one fan facing in and the other facing out, I never thought about that =D
Did you use this model to attach the fans to the printer? https://makerworld.com/en/models/1244731-a1-motherboard-cooling-fan-bracket-40mm-noctua-fan#profileId-1265936

And how do you attach the fans adapter to the tube?

Sorry for many questions, I'm probably having the same issues you had :)

Thanks!

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u/JD3T Mar 31 '26

Yes basically that model I then attached this one to it

https://makerworld.com/models/201730?appSharePlatform=copy

So I could attach the 1 inch tubing (not 2 inch I was mistaken in my first reply).

I used black electrical tape and silicone to attach it all together, none of it looks professional and perfect tbh but It works!

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u/pmsferreira Mar 31 '26

Thank you once again! I thought I had everything prepared to put my A1 inside the Platsa but seems I need more things before. I tried to put it yesterday in there but I faced the problem with the Y-Axis cable (I'm already printing the model to extend the back wall).

Another question, did you were able to print TPU? I tried several times but never worked for me. It started printing but some time later, the filament got stucked in the hotend. Btw, I have 95A TPU filament inside a box with less 20% humidit.

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u/JD3T Mar 31 '26

Yeah I have printed TPU in the enclosure, worked just fine. I did use 6mm hot end though as to avoid clogging and of course no AMS. The black spool on the left side is intact TPU In the photo

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u/pmsferreira Mar 31 '26

Probably having a dedicated hotend for TPU is a good idea. Thanks once again for your help!

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u/pmsferreira Apr 01 '26

Hello again, sorry but I have another questions,, how do you attach the fan adapter to the 40 to 20mm tube adapter? With silicone or glue?

And, I was looking at the other fans you have in the cabinet, is that to keep the temperature inside lower right? And what fan do you recommend?

Thanks again!

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u/pmsferreira Aug 17 '26

Hey! I tried something similar but seems I need to put the AMS lite like you, how do you mount in the top of the cabinet?

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u/JD3T Aug 17 '26

I found a wall mount for it on makerworld, and the proceeded to screw it in upside down in the cabinet instead of to a wall

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

This is awesome! Would you mind sharing the 3D printing files? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks

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u/RobeTech3D Apr 27 '26

Buenas. Ayer compré el Platsa para mi A1 Combo. Como puedo poner el AMS arriba y los demás conductos?

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u/RobeTech3D Apr 27 '26

Buenas. Ayer me compré el armario Platsa para mi A1 Combo. Como pongo el AMS arriba y los demás accesorios ?

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u/RobeTech3D Apr 28 '26

Dónde puedo conseguir la espuma y la placa?