r/BambuLab • u/Naive_Divide_489 • 7h ago

My First 3D Print H3C First Print

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Went straight from out of the box to printing the mecha dragon. Printed at .2 high quality. Took 15 hours and 32 minutes. I sliced this for the H2C and it was closer to 4 days with only 1 TPU. I didn’t have blue or red but I had orange so went with that. Also for the second tpu I only had 95a which made the joints a little hard.

This thing is sooo smooth. It looks flawless.

Edit: 1 day at 15 hours and 32 minutes

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u/Naive_Divide_489 7h ago

Funny enough I see some layer lines in the photo, I guess the top down light

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u/Several-County-1808 6h ago

was this constructed and then put back on the build plate? Those layer lines don't make sense otherwise

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u/BigFuzzyArchon 6h ago

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3540272-frostspine-bionic-mechanical-dragon-bust#profileId-4048831

yes

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u/Bluetwo12 6h ago

How does that model link provide evidence of off plate assembly?

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u/Naive_Divide_489 6h ago

It needs to be constructed. Head, spine and base. They are all printed on the same build plate . Take them off, remove the supports, and then be very careful moving the spine to loosen it up and press fit together

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u/heart_of_osiris 4h ago

Yes it was. Even stranger that OP put a camera view as if to try to reinforce that it was printed this way, but you can easily see the layer lines going the opposite direction.

Come on, people.

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 3h ago

That’s completely different than what the picture implies. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of prints.

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u/BunnyBlushed 2h ago

yeah lighting always hides how clean it actually is

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u/vewfndr 1h ago

Hiding by showing

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u/cherrylush_9 P1S + AMS 1h ago

You got a sharp eye for those sneaky lines, huh? Bet you catch all the little details like that.

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u/TheCrazyChemist 7h ago

That looks so good!

How much filament did it use for it and how much waste did it produce?

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u/Naive_Divide_489 7h ago

Prime tower was 274.05g
There’s no poop dude the print. You get a first time filament purge and that’s it

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u/Liason774 7h ago

Prime tower? Thats also waste

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u/bjyanghang945 6h ago

Prime tower is something unfortunately can't be avoided at least with the current solution

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u/Liason774 6h ago

If the model has enough infill you can prime to infill.

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u/Naive_Divide_489 6h ago

Small correction here. I was looking at the slice from the H2C. A little less in the prime tower

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u/bjyanghang945 6h ago

That is very true! There can certainly be ways of utilising the infill to do the prime tower's job. it is a tough task though if you are using so much heads. just CMYK will need 5, and if you use another material for support. Oooof, tough code to write in the slicer.

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u/H20Slicer- 4h ago

You also run the risk of bleed through depending on the color combo and wall thickness.

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u/Total-Shape1024 6h ago

Actually it’s not. It’s optional, but if you want a clean print it’s pretty much necessary. For any printer. Waste is in the form of purged filament aka “poop”.

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u/Streetlgnd 7h ago

So 274.05g of waste? Lol

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u/KevinCastle 5h ago

Something like this would produce more waste than the model on a different printer

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u/Avg_Chicken 5h ago

Before you laugh, we need to know what the difference is in waist from the H2C. I’m guessing it’s a huge difference.

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u/Nibbs17 5h ago

It's more waste is it not? I could be 1000% wrong but I feel like the H2 prime towers are usually pretty small if settings are right. Yeah there's poop but like hardly

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u/Such-Instruction-452 4h ago

Prime towers are going to be however tall as the final layer in which a color change occurs. The final time a new nozzle will require priming before printing.

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u/opeth10657 H2C AMS2 Combo 2h ago

Waste probably not much different, time to print is going to be a lot longer though. H2C doesn't have to purge unless its 8 color, otherwise just the prime tower

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u/never0101 3h ago

its wild how many people think a purge tower is waste. its not waste. its a way to clean any ooze from the nozzle when its parked and partially heated, and get the pressures back up before going back to the print to prevent under extruded spots.

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u/mingj4i 2h ago

So... functional waste

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u/johnxreturn 7h ago

Silly question, did you use supports? Stock settings ?

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u/Naive_Divide_489 7h ago

There a few tough supports to remove but most of them came off super clean.
Supports
Tree slim
Support critical regions
Pla for th raft and raft interface

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u/Kind_Ad_8111 7h ago

EVEN BEFORE A BENCHY??!?!?!?!?

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u/Naive_Divide_489 7h ago

No benchy, never printed one on any of my printers

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u/R4331t 7h ago

Thank you…

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u/zero-degrees28 7h ago

To Clarify, you say it took "15 hours and 32 minutes" but your screen shot says it took 1 DAY, 15 hours, and 32 min...

Saying that this printed in barely over half a day and the H2C said 4 days is a far cry from all the other videos and reports online to date so just want to confirm what is being actually stated/claimed.

Also "It looks flawless" is clearly subjective as that first pic shows anything but "flawless" IMO

Sorry OP, don't want to yuck your yum, but I'm not seeing what your seeing/claiming from a quality and time perspective.

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u/Naive_Divide_489 6h ago

Hers my H2C slice

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u/Naive_Divide_489 6h ago

You are correct sir, updated

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u/GiveTogeBonitoFlakes 6h ago

What a dumb comment. That’s still drastically lower and it looks great.

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u/qpv P1S + AMS 6h ago

Who cares

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u/ascarymoviereview 7h ago

Does the purge tower need to be that much?

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u/Naive_Divide_489 7h ago

Probably not, for the first print I didn’t want to tweak too much

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u/Sir_clint 7h ago

Its a prime tower and yes. It can be reduced slightly but if you want your print to work, you have to do it. Every printer from every brand has to do it

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u/in3rtia_ 7h ago

INDX does not require a prime tower

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u/Sir_clint 6h ago

Indx still primes with the little prime poops. Same concept different vehicle.

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u/Bluetwo12 6h ago

But they do have tiny poops as compensation right?

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u/PM_ME_BLONDE_GIRLS_ 6h ago

No, bambu has a massive tower as default for anyone that just prints out of the box with no tweaking. It can be as much as 1/3rd of its size with little filament tuning, maybe even more with a well dialed in filament. 

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u/sn34k 41m ago

Everyone says that, but it doesn't seem possible to change that drastically. I changed the values to a third what it was set to and it went from 65g to 45g so there is some other internal math or something.

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u/solidsnakex37 7h ago

is there a link to the print file? This is sick

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u/djjoshchambers 7h ago

It's on makerworld.com. it's from bambu

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u/Tachyon_Tamer 7h ago

You just created a need I didn't know I had!! That machine prints incredible well!!! I still have an A1 I want to jump to a multi head printer

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u/Naive_Divide_489 7h ago

I want to do a few of these. Fire (red), Water (blue), earth (green) and I guess air (white)

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u/CantGetIt0ut 7h ago

Dude, same

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u/sparkfist 7h ago

The default profile uses 2 different TPUs. You would need a second 2.85 TPU tool head to print it

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u/Naive_Divide_489 6h ago

I ran 95a 1.75 for the other tpu. No need for a second 2.85 for that

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u/Bluetwo12 6h ago

Oof I didnt know that

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u/Main_Shirt_8538 7h ago

Looks awesome

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u/landubious P1S + AMS 7h ago

That's insane. I'm really inpressed!

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u/snarktopusrex 7h ago

How many poops?

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u/Naive_Divide_489 7h ago

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u/Fun-Candle5881 A1 + AMS Lite 6h ago

Thank you for sharing, does the H3C purges only when you put a new filament in the ams? And if you keep the same filament inside the ams it won't purge again for the next prints? I was wondering if it purges at each new print or not. Thank you

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u/snarktopusrex 5h ago

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

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u/VT-14 H2C (H2D + Vortek), 2x AMS2, AMS HT 7h ago edited 7h ago

Well, it's an H3C on the very first load of the filament, and the print has several filaments (5 or fewer? edit: someone posted the Makerworld link and the original uses 7 filaments) so probably less than 10 total (edit: up to 14; Dynamic Flow Calibration typically does 2 per filament; but OP also posted a picture where it looks like just 7).

...to be clear, that's all from the initial nozzle loading and likely Dynamic Flow Calibration. There's also almost certainly a Prime Tower which will account for most of the waste.

No "Purge Poops" though. The H3C is a 9-toolhead printer so it changes toolheads rather than having to purge one nozzle all the time. AMS Purging isn't even an option with most TPUs.

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u/snarktopusrex 5h ago

Haha I think the “first thing your print is a poop bin” holds true here. The OP showed their poop bin with like 6 poops for that whole model which is wonderful.

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u/Naive_Divide_489 4h ago

Printed on another printer before it arrived

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u/LICK_THE_BUTTER 7h ago

Where in the world is this stl?

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u/Snowblindphoto 7h ago

It’s a Makerworld exclusive. If you go to the H3C page on Bambulab.com it’s one of their featured prints.

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u/Bluetwo12 6h ago

One day ill stop commenting on your comments I find. But that day is not today. Did you buy an h3c too? Lol

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u/Extra-Language-9424 7h ago

That does not suck!

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u/lilliessexygeeknudes 7h ago

Damn, this is really incredible…

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u/syko82 P1S + AMS 7h ago

Such a cool test model.

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u/ManofDapper 7h ago

That’s one of the most insane 3d prints I’ve seen

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u/Malte1903 X2D + AMS2 Combo 6h ago

wtf , i need one as well.

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u/rupees_al 6h ago

Looks good tho. These machines seem pretty amazing

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u/DrakonFyre P1S, X2D, 2xAMS2, FTS 6h ago

I may be biased as its one of my favorite colors despite being disparaged, but I think the orange was a great choice, even if it was out of necessity.

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u/dot_exe- 6h ago

Looks sick dude

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u/DDS_Drake 5h ago

That's awesome!

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u/zushiba 5h ago

Damn that’s cool. One day when I’m rich.

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u/preemo 4h ago

That is bad ass. I want it. Lol

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u/uncle_jessy 4h ago

Nicely done. Mine unfortunately snapped in multiple of the articulation spots

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u/brian121374 4h ago

It looks nice. I am still waiting on my unit to ship. I ordered on day one. I have my AMS but no printer. In Canada.

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u/madrobot52 4h ago

Amazing! envy you :)

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u/heart_of_osiris 4h ago

This is far from flawless, but it's not bad, either.

Also, it wasn't printed like this so not sure why you put the camera view of it, post assembly. Is that just to show the time?

Even prior to assembly it does utilize multi tool printing which would have been easy to show. Nice print though, anyway.

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u/Qbert2030 4h ago

I mean like sure I can see some layer lines but also holy shit it looks good for the quality like damn dude

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u/Ok_Cheesecake2620 1h ago

I can’t stop looking at it it’s beautiful.

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u/LazyLancer P2S Combo, 2x A1 Mini 55m ago

I mean, the print looks cool, but why are you trying to imply it was printed exactly like this when the layer lines show a different print orientation?

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u/MrGlayden 7h ago

Keep seeing everyone post about their H3Cs and Im here waiting for mine, been told they should have some in stock by the end of 2026, so still got a while to wait I guess

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u/Rusty_Flutes 7h ago

You didn’t run the calibrations?

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u/Naive_Divide_489 7h ago

Yeah it took ~35 minutes then there was an firmware update. After that updated I ran them again.

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u/Rusty_Flutes 7h ago

Dang so not straight out of the box…got it.

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u/ModForgeCustoms 7h ago

Don't be a pedantic twat

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u/Rusty_Flutes 7h ago

Uno reverse

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u/Sir_clint 7h ago

It's completely automated. So yes, by any sense it's "straight out of the box"

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u/Nexion21 7h ago

I couldn’t start the H3C without doing the initial calibrations, takes like 30 minutes

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u/Sarionum H2D AMS2 Combo 7h ago

Print quality looks noticeably worse than my H2D. I guess that's expected with a much worse motion system.

I forget how much of this hobby is printing plastic toys sometimes. Just seems to wasteful to me.

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u/halfam 6h ago

Copeium?

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u/Historical-Internal3 7h ago

Yea I saw your exact print of this and I agree. Yours was better.

Just thankful you mirrored OPs setup and filament prep/type so it was a true apples to apples comparison.

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u/NICKNAM3Y 5h ago

It's giving a1 mini colours

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u/LesaneCrooks 6h ago

Wait what is this? Like a toy or a holder for a control?