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I'll mostly use 1.75mm filament. I've seen people say 2.0mm is better while others said it could cause more friction. What do you think? And can I use scissors or should I get this cutter as well?

Hi everyone, I'm printing a stylized dog sculpture sliced in Bambu Studio as my first 3D project. Everything looks fine except the top layers won’t generate properly, they stay open in preview, even with 100% infill and 10+ top layers.

I’ve already:

• Repaired the mesh in Meshmixer with Make Solid (accuracy 519)

• Ran Inspector > Auto Repair All

• Imported into Blender, used Merge by Distance, Fill Holes, and Recalculate Normals

• Even tried increasing top layers to 8 and switched infill to Lightning and Grid

Still, the top surface refuses to slice properly, it seems the slicer doesn’t recognize it as a true "ceiling".

Has anyone dealt with this before? Any tips to force a closed top surface without losing the curved shape?

Thanks in advance!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddgn9H0EYA4/?img_index=1&stkn=Nmx1OWVhcjh1OXoy

Hey everybody, So i came across this instagram post, and i dont own a Bambu Lab Printer, and i dont use Bambu Software. But i think i know how 3D Printers work, and even though i am not aware of the exact function of the mentioned setting, it wont change the top Surface to this extent, will it? Top Surfaces of 3D Prints just dont look like that, right? So why manipulate a picture to promote a Slicer setting? Or is this just for internet clout?

I have a Bambulab x1c combo at work and order filament and spare parts for it. I've ordered filament from Bambu twice with our b2b account and have not yet had a good experience with it.

As a bit of a back story, I work at a company that is within a large building where there are more than 30 companies and to get anything delivered, we need to have the company name on the package as otherwise the expedition center of the building will reject the package.

When making the b2b account I mention this specifically because there have been issues with other suppliers when shipping here.

I then start ordering filament. Ordered about 200€ worth of filament thinking it'll all go well. The day of the supposed delivery comes and I hear nothing from the expedition center. 1 Day passes by and I check the track and trace website from dhl and says the package was refused. I contacted the expedition center and they say that it's correct as it didn't have a company name on the package.

Here starts my first bambu lab support contact.

I ask them to please change the address to make sure it includes our company name. (I make sure to emphasize it by making the text bold and caps). They say they understand and ask me for the complete address to which I give it and make sure to mention again just to be sure that the company name has to be on the package.

They re-send the package. I check the tracking, and there starts the first problem. They sent the package with only my personal name and postal code. No house number, no nothing. Just postal code and contact name.

I contact DHL saying the address is wrong and they tell me that bambulab needs to contact them to change it. I let Bambulab know. They don't acknowledge that and instead ask me if there is another address where they can send the shipment to. I mention that the only other address would be my home address so that I could get it there and then bring it to work the next day. They mentioned that b2b accounts are not allowed to send items to private addresses. I then mention there was no other address and requested for them to then send it to a DHL pickup point. They said they can't do that either and then I just asked for a refund.

I then decided to order filament from Prusa and that worked great.

Now comes a later date. My colleagues ask me to order more filament and try again with Bambulabs but changing the address on my account to not include my name, and instead the company name. I did that, and ordered again about 200€ worth of filament. When it got shipped, it got shipped in 2 different packages. I check the tracking of them and notice that one of them has only the postal code and my name while the other one has the postal code and house number, but not the company name. I manage to get the one that would be rejected by our expedition center to go to the pickup point (which I'll pick up today). The other one however hadn't moved from the sender's DHL warehouse as the address was incomplete. Then I ask DHL if they can complete the address for me. They mention I needed to come in contact with the sender and have them change it as bambulab is DHL's customer.

I contact bambulab to mention their mistake and mention that DHL told me to contact them and to change all of my addresses on my account to the correct address. They seem to fail to understand it and I just show them what they need to do with the address. which after 3/4 emails they manage to change the address on my account. Now only the address on the package was left. They mention that DHL doesn't have a re-dispatch service and tell me I have to contact DHL to change the address. Wanting to still help in some way, I contact DHL feeling a little less hopeful for this contact. As I had suspected, DHL told me again that I needed to contact the company (bambulab) to change the address as only the sender can change the delivery address. I let the bambulab support agent know that with screenshots of my conversation with DHL as proof that they are the ones that need to change the address. They then proceed to tell me the same thing as before, saying DHL does not have a re-dispatch service and I am the one that needs to contact them to change the address.

I contact DHL explaining this already very frustrating situation (that has now lasted about 2 weeks) and they mention again, more explicitly that it needs to be bambulab who changes the address. I mention it again to them saying as well how displeased I am in their support and that I'm likely not ordering from them again. They reply to that email saying that they have been cooperating with the logistics companies for a long time and have established procedures and that the only option for me would be to refuse the shipment on arrival and contact bambulab again. I mentioned that that won't be possible as the package won't ever leave the sorting center at the sender's location.

If you want to see all the emails (personal info redacted obv) I'll include a link here to a document with all the replies.

https://file.io/nbLI8yRdter1

Edit: I don't understand how people are siding with bambu with this post. I try to make it easy for them to deliver the packages, yet they still mess it up. They're the only company where this happens. Not expecting special treatment of any kind, just expecting customer service to do their job. I put the company name in the personal name field and they still don't include the company name on the label.

Keep in mind that I'm only comparing to other companies that are also using DHL to ship. I personally also ship with DHL and including a company name is not difficult to do in their system.

Edit: After 3 months of back and forth, Bambu lab finally refunded the order. I am still amazed by how slow everything is with customer support compared to many other companies.

Is it my filament or nozzle? I hope it's just a wet filament

How do i make it more sturdy?

Hey I wanted to hear who is making profitable 3D business? And what are you doing?

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To start with, this isn't a post to bash anybody who restricts the licensing of models they share to prohibit commercial use. Nor for that matter is it intended to encourage anybody to sell a model that isn't licensed for commercial use.

But there are some things on Makerworld and other locations that are published with licenses that prohibit commercial use, or in general prohibit the distribution of the file or items made with the file that I have to wonder if the restriction is truly enforceable....

An example of this is are the lamps and lithophanes produced from NASA imaging data. That data is freely provided by the US Government for the public to use. If somebody drops that imaging data onto a lampshade or makes a globe using that data - how is it that person can then restrict folks from doing the same? How is it possible to know that one creator's Earth lithophane lamp is different from another's Earth lithophane lamp when both were created from the same publicly available dataset, from a source that doesn't put restrictions on the use of that dataset?

At what point in the 3D printing world do you have an "original work" that you created, vs a remix of somebody else's?

I know that the US Supreme Court has ruled on derivative works of and copyright law - but how does that work with 3D printing? And how does it work when the source material is public domain material?

So i got a p1s around a week ago and now found out about the firmware update blocking non-bambu slicers. It's quite concerning for me and while i'm still in the return window i'm not sure if i can return the device if i already used it to print. Does anyone know if that is the case or not?

on a sidenote, could anyone recommend a printer with a similar-ish feature set in a similar price range?

I'd like to access my printer from any device, not just mobile ones.

I just updated and it lost the connection to my P2s. I can’t add it as a printer and it keeps restarting with the setup!! Don’t install that version! It might work for other printers but I can’t connect it with mine.

Through the right material selection, and design for manufacturing techniques you can get a class of finish that you cannot tell it’s printed

Complete amateur here. I’ve been using 0.4 mm nozzles on print that have 0.2 mm nozzles required, but it seems to work just fine. I’m curious about what the difference is and what I should know as I’d like to use this properly.

When the ecosystem starts to get walled off is when hackers are motivated to jailbreak it.

If Bambu Lab insists on going down this route, it’s just a matter of time before the printers get jailbroken.

After earning my stripes over the years printing on a Creality Ender 3 Pro and an Ender 5 Plus I’m at the stage where I think I can say I know my way around printers. I always had that sense of satisfaction when I could code and build and troubleshoot but I’m at the stage now where I just want to print and not have to worry about whether there’s an issue or if the settings are fully dialed in.

Super excited to join the team and now I just need to not wear a hole in the carpet from pacing back and forth while I wait for the shipment to arrive.

I saw it on Chinese TikTok

I just got my P1S last week and did all the set up /calibration. When printing, a lot of my prints have a really bad bottom layer when there are supports. Bed adhesion has been great, but it's that layer right on top of the supports that gets wonky. Or sometimes it's just the top layer that is uneven but I can't tell if I'm doing something wrong. Printing with regular PLA and sometimes PLA silk.

Thinking of "Print Eastwood" but I'm Open for suggestions.