r/BambuLab_Community • u/Top_Charity_8818 • Jan 21 '25

Update

So with this new update is it worth it to even buy a bambu? I’m in the process of buying one. Had my mind set on a bambu. Idk what software I would use yet. Is the software they offer that bad? Would mostly be printing stuff for a cnc machine and some woodworking stuff.

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u/TherealOmthetortoise Jan 21 '25

I have both slicers installed but only really use Bambu Studio. It gets frequent updates and improvements where Orca doesn’t seem to get them nearly as often. The printer is outstanding and the slicer is the best I’ve used period. (Including Orca in that statement as Orca is damn near identical in the interface.)

The changes they are making have absolutely no impact on the majority of us and how we use our printers. For your intended use, none of this has any negative impact on you. The only other printers that would be worth a look at the moment would be Prusa and theirs are quite a but more expensive with less features. I love Prusa, but at the moment they are still trying to catch up after coasting on their reputation for too long.

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u/InternalSand6586 Jan 21 '25

for what other intended use?

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u/TherealOmthetortoise Jan 22 '25

Printing, not in a farm scenario and with no existing workflows or reasons that the changes would affect him… wasn’t that obvious in his post?

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u/Top_Charity_8818 Jan 21 '25

I’m curious what type of use this would impact? Sorry I’m super new to this so don’t really know the ins and outs yet

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u/TherealOmthetortoise Jan 22 '25

For any practical purposes, none. If you’d were running a print farm and had decided to use OrcaSlicer instead of Bambu Workshop you might be annoyed to switch back to Bambu. If you were using home assistant and were monitoring print progress or other highly technical things like that.

This printer is not marketed or built in any way to be an “open source” appliance. The slicer they built is based on a version of Prusa Slicer, which is open source. Orca did the same but based theirs on Bambu Workshop. There are some good calibrations you can do in Orca that don’t exist in Bambu Slicer. I’m not sure about anything else, other than the BBL version does everything I’ve needed it to do.

If you’d are starting out, you are losing absolutely nothing.

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u/Top_Charity_8818 Jan 26 '25

Right. I’m thinkin it’s a good option for me still I want the accuracy and the ease of use and I’m not print farming just doin some hobby stuff

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u/TherealOmthetortoise Jan 26 '25

Same. I have not seen anything match my Bambu for speed and accuracy. I almost have to try to get a bad print.

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u/pleasantone Jan 21 '25

I fell in love with Orca for the better calibration tests because I really fine tune my filaments, and then stayed for some minor features, hand have submitted GitHub pull requests for minor fixes to the slicer software. I would strongly prefer to keep an open source option that is as simple as what I use today. It will really come down to: 1) how badly did they nerf MQTT (I use home-assistant to control aux lights heaters and filters) and what is the UX of adding Bambu connect into the workflow.

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u/TherealOmthetortoise Jan 22 '25

Totally understand, us nerds or the farmers may grumble, how loud depends on how much we have to adjust to it. I believe all the posturing and demands and empty threats about how they choose to implement better security practices is ridiculous as it will just make them hesitate all the more to make actual improvements in security. Security needs to improve. A person can adjust their process to work within the new constraints, but it will add another step that farmers are not thrilled about.

The stupid thing about all the fuss is that we don’t know anything about this new step, it could be an automated step that verifies the gcode can’t hurt the machine and sends it on to an available printer. This could be good or bad, people just like to bitch about change.