Well, as I said in my post, my intended purpose is custom car parts. Once you get up around 500x500, you can make a lot of things in a single piece that would otherwise be glued together and require a lot of post processing and cosmetic work. I’m thinking custom dash panels and the like for retrofitting modern nav/entertainment systems into older vehicles originally designed for single or double DIN for example: making them look OEM. Also with higher temps and heated enclosure, I’m thinking engine bay parts like airboxes and that sort of thing. No, I’m not a pro, just an enthusiast.
Another use case that pops to mind is gardening: making large, attractive pots on demand. I could come up with more, but these are just things I’ve wished for a larger build volume for recently. One-off drone builders might also get a lot of use out of those features.
I guess I view the kit builder as a separate category from enterprise or prosumer. The group able and willing to go that deep is much smaller than the general marketplace. I absolutely agree that it’s probably the most realistic way to fulfill my wishlist at this point, but I think a lot of people who are interested in those features are interested because their main hobby isn’t 3d printing. For my part, I’m definitely capable, but time spent building and fiddling is time not spent on the projects that I need the build volume for. Honestly, that math is what led me to buying an X1C in the first place. It’s been a great machine in that respect.
All that said, it’s extremely unlikely that I would buy another Bambu machine after their recent moves. YMMV, but they would have to do a lot to earn back the lost trust.
The custom dash panel idea is great. Me and my dad did an old panel van with newer lincoln interior and dash when I was younger. I can still smell the fiberglass resin. Probably knocked a year off my life lol
Actually I’m in the same camp as @Marvelicious and what he said.
I don’t NEED to - but not gluing 45 pieces and sanding joints is a huge time saver at times, most of the time for a lot of the time haha. Auto parts and panels who wants superglue seams?
And for the thrill of it if I want a new pool ladder, I send it and it gets printed in 1 go. My new lawn chair that looks like game of thrones? who wants to be gluing I cant even count how many pointy things coming off it jeeezzz. Just single piece print the sucker at 15ft tall you know? It’s not even for manufacturing…
I guess I’ll say it. We want bigger for the flex.
Just like my BBQ is bigger than all my neighbors - some things have to be like this. Life rules!
lol@ the thumbs down. Im not the one that designed the bed so close to the aux fan…and I warned you guys when the 1st pic dropped. I get few likes for speaking logic. Not everything in life will give you warm fuzzy feelings.
Because there’s not a lot of demand for a gigantic printer. And 350x325x320 isn’t even that bad. It doesn’t make sense for them to spend months designing a 500x500x500 printer that almost nobody will buy.
I guess I’m one of the nobody’s then. The only issue I see if that as size increases, so does cost, and maybe for some people size and weight become an encumbrance. But there is a not insignificant market of people who print instrument consoles for cars, and they like big volumes. 500x500 would be right up their ally. It’s not as large a market, but it’s under-served with a lot of pent-up demand.
I thought about it a bit and I think it might be enough for home users like me. Because I have a small room, the printer with a large print table will grow in volume and external size, so there needs to be a place to fit it. I hope the H2D comes at a reasonable price and can be a good start for anyone who wants to buy a 3D printer.
I’m not sure that 3k is something people will be willing to spend on their first printer. I also don’t think most beginners will want such a large printer that has things such as dual heads and laser engraving. I think something like the P1S is probably the best first printer. You spend a reasonable amount but still get a great enclosed printer that will do basically everything you need.
This printer is a let down. It has features that I will never use and a print volume that just doesn’t measure up. My X1C is on it’s last leg and it looks like it will be replaced with a P1S as I do love the quality Bambu puts out but H2D isn’t really an upgrade to me. I knew that I wasn’t going to get the 500 that I wanted but they couldn’t make a standard 350 or 400?
If you can get two of three dimensions below 250mm, you can use something like the IdeaFormer IR3 to print as large as you want in the third dimension.
This means close to a 10"×10" square extruded out to whatever length, which would work for many parts of a car dashboard.
Some… not enough to bother with to me. I hear Voron is working on one that goes up to around 600mm³, though development has been lagging. That may be my next machine if it ever comes out. If they can get it to perform at that size, it would be worth the effort to build it to me.
