Who wants to waste nano polymer adhesive (or time etc.) because you aren’t sure where it’s needed? It’d also be useful to know where to place a print if you’re doing multiple prints with the same application of nano polymer (or other adhesive).
Brand logos on a plate add nothing of value, and functionality should always trump appearances.
Please kick marketing out of the room when working on plate design, and just add grid markings which line up with what slicers show in the preview.
Markings on the plate will transfer to the print. I absolutely do not want grid lines on my build plates. Flat and smooth as a baby’s bottom is the way to go.
Did you not notice the gigantic Bambu Lab logo on the textured plate?
That’s basically what I’d like to be able to do. But since it’s not on the physical plate, you have to guess where the part is going to end up.
Maybe I should revise the post from using the word “ALL” down to “some”, i.e. it should be an option. A quick lookup does raise some concerns about print quality on smooth plates. But for the textured plates, I would think if it were a problem, the Bambu Lab logo would be an issue.
Also I believe the Engineering Plate had grid lines? So I don’t know if it’s really such a big thing…
You really dont , the physical print will print in the same position on the build plate , plus bed levelling will also show you an approximation of where a print will be positioned on the build plate.
Well that plate is showing 5 25cm squares across and down. You could measure easily where you placed it on the build plate.
Also that nano polymer stuff, just use Elmers. I’ve only found a need on smooth plates with certain filaments. Never used it on a texture plate unless I need a release agent.
No offense, but if you need polymer on a textured plate…wash it, or get a new plate.
Oh right that’s correct, I don’t use nano polymer on the textured plate (or anything), so it’s just a smooth plate issue.
Yes I could measure, but that’d defeat the purpose. This is very much a First World Problem - it’s just a matter of convenience and saving on time/effort. I don’t want to have to clean the plate and re-apply so much.
I’ll put up a picture after this next print is done, I think that’ll make it clearer what I mean.
I’m still using the original Engineering and Cool plates that came with my X1C more than a year ago. They don’t have a logo in the center. But they’re also smooth. On a textured plate, the imprint might be “lost in the noise”.
I don’t have adhesion problems, so I don’t use glue, so having a grid pattern wouldn’t help me at all.
The few times I’ve printed something that used all of the build plate, the artwork printed on the edges of the plate was transferred to my print.
Been awhile since I’ve used the BL textured plate but I don’t recall there ever being a logo on prints. I long since switched textured plates, might have the original around here to test.
Doesn’t the Engineering plate have grid lines on it? I don’t have one so I can only go off of what I think I recall reading.
On the smooth plate, I wouldn’t want to print PETG without nano polymer (or something). Maybe PLA is safe enough but I guess it doesn’t hurt.
I never had good luck with glue-it was always too uneven, plus it’s messy. If you don’t use adhesive at all, yeah this wouldn’t matter to you.
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I think I’m done backtracking on the original thought. 
Revised: I’d like to see at least some smooth build plates with grid lines on them that match what the slicer software renders.
I’ll put up a picture in a minute to illustrate the first world problem better.
Okay, let’s say I want to re-use this plate without bothering to re-apply adhesive (because cleaning and re-applying is a pain!). Maybe I want to print some 1cm x 1cm things inside this rectangle area, or maybe I want to do this same thing again without crashing into the area that the adhesive already came off of.
With grid lines we can easily identify where to drop stuff on the plate in the slicer. Or if I’m re-applying adhesive in a small area, it’d be easier to know exactly where it’s needed.
Certainly this isn’t the biggest problem, but it would be nice. I am assuming it wouldn’t impact print quality (seems unlikely, because this adhesive stuff is between the print and the plate).
So hopefully that’s a little clearer, and makes sense.
I will have to concur 100% with @lou here. It baffles me as to why one can place a logo that does not transfer but one cannot put gridlines? It certainly is not without precedence.
I second this particular point. It’s entirely a QOL thing, but those are often unjustly overlooked.
An idea would be to pause after the brim and then apply glue, but I definitely agree with your idea.
Why do craft mats have grids on them? Why not!
Why should build plates have grids on them? Why not!
It would be easy for Bambu to add grid lines on build plates, and would honestly just look a lot cooler.
Yeah, I’m all about looking cool - let’s do it.
I agree, having lines would be helpful.
I think it’s a good idea to have the choice. They could even offer a smooth one that holograms the 10cm grid onto the bottom of the print as well. There might be a good reason to have indexing lines on the print.
“New ruler print bed available from Aliexpress”: One side with metric The other side with imperial Inches. Heck, we can have one with Roman digitus and banana for scale.
“Hello fellow 3D printer kids”. 
Most plates, unless really cheaply made, do not transfer anything from the plate to the print. That really should never be an issue.
