Makes you wonder
This was my 3dBenchy, what do you think.
Looks great to me, is that the fast benchy that comes with the printer?
Yes, the original 3dbenchy creative on the SD card.
Did the bottom letters print correctly?
Seen some of my benchys where it looks fine but there were errors on these letters.
Looks as good as it gets.
That default benchy file has bad writing on the bottom, no need to worry. I’ve printed that test file a good number of times and I still have no idea what the bottom says lol.
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I have 2 A1 printers, literally side by side, purchased within 3 months of each other. Upgraded both today to 1.04 firmware. The first needed no other steps, just worked as it’s supposed to. The second? A complete disaster.
The extruder is “skipping” when trying to print (not at all during purging). I’ve never seen anything like it. The printer cannot even print the first layer.
Same filaments on both printers (PLA+). Same slicer settings, default .20mm Standard. Both of these printers have printed hundred of parts in production.
I’m deep in my 3rd recalibration after 2 factory resets. Trying to get the printer to a state where I can roll back to 1.03 firmware. Never had to do anything like this before…
If you experience this in the future, check your gcode (preview pane in the slicer)
Some surfaces, with default slicing profiles, generate tree structures really poorly. This object’s underside is similar to a pan, flipped upside down, and only about 6mm in height to it’s “roof” that needs support.
Hard to see, but those first tree branch squiggles are floating 8 layers above. This is “organic” and all else left default
Cura creates them more faithfully on default profile with this model, but you can coax bambu studio into doing it better by screwing around with the branch diameters etc
Slicer preview is your first weapon when suspecting strange printing results
Ugh. Okay this was fully my bad. The metal clip that holds the hotend had gotten bent in a weird way due to some earlier manhandling I did. I guess the issue just manifested when I upgraded firmware and ran a new calibration, unseated the hotend just enough to cause mayhem.
Note for anyone else stumbling across this- a slightly malformed metal clip on your A1 hotend can cause SERIOUS trauma.
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