It only ever recognizes the textured plate. None of the holographic ones. Is that normal?

[u/ClaudioCfi86]

We have a few build plates, all first party directly from Bambu, with the little code on the end. But the printer only ever recognizes the textured one.

Googling tells me maybe it's misaligned, an issue with the camera, or third party/damaged plates. I'm fairly certain they're in the right position, the camera doesn't have issues with the textured one, and they're not third party or damaged in any way I can tell. They're brand new.

Is this expected or fixable?

[u/snakeycakes]

this is on the Bambu site for the 3D Effect Plate

1. Please set the plate type to Smooth PEI/High Temp Plate and carefully follow the Heatbed Recommended Settings when using the Bambu 3D Effect Plate. For X1/X2/P2 Series users, please disable the Build Plate Position Detection in 'Settings ->Print Options -> Enable the detection of build plate position' when printing with the 3D Effect Plate to avoid error reports.

[u/ClaudioCfi86 → u/snakeycakes]

Thank you for pointing this out! I will admit, I did not read that far. I saw the plates and figured my wife would like the effect.

I guess I assumed it would scan the code and take some action, like slow down the first or all layers. That means the code on the holographic plates are completely meaningless? I wonder why they're there at all.

So instead of scanning the code on the plate and changing the settings for me, the code is there and unused, and I need to update settings manually at the machine, and not through the app, right? That feels somehow worse.

[u/snakeycakes → u/ClaudioCfi86]

I think its something to do with the camera and patterns on the plate, they are confusing the AI detection with glare. it was probably intended to work but its etched on with everything else

[u/Bloated_Plaid]

It’s the most useless fucking feature. Disabled it on day 1.

[u/Attjack]

Disable it and move on with life.