Do you know which filament is the most budget-friendly for outdoor use? Which filament is the most heat-resistant with excellent water resistance? Which filament is the easiest to print while offering great impact resistance? Find all the answers in the All New Bambu Filament Guide!
The Bambu Filament Guide, the first to be based on specific use cases, helps you efficiently find the most suitable filament for your projects. Additionally, the guide provides detailed properties, common applications, printing tips, and sample MakerWorld projects for each filament.
To help us improve this filament guide, please feel free to leave your feedback through the survey on the filament guide’s upper toolbar. Your input will help us do better!
Great info. Thanks.
I just missed that I could order by performance ranking and that performance ranking was made available for all categories. Already provide the feedback about it.
Nice, but I do wish that creep resistance had been measured and put on display because 1. it’s important because it can lead to catastrophic failures and 2. it’s hard to find this information.
I love the idea since this will provide new users a quick reference to understanding what filament to use and when. Adding the additional “budget-friendly” category is a good idea so that people can weigh the costs vs benefit.
Having additional information like suggested by @NeverDie would be cool. Igor at https://www.youtube.com/@MyTechFun has some really good examples of these kinds of tests. He’s even covered some of the Bambu brand filaments … Interesting note here is that he was a huge fan of the Bambu tough PLA and was sad to learn that it was discontinued.
It would be really nice if we could click on the values on the web graph and see how/why that value exists.
For example, ASA shows a heat resistance of 3 which appears low since it looks like values on the web graph go to 10, but then when you click to the ASA Detailed page, Heat Resistance is listed as a Pro, above Impact Resistance that shows a value of 6 on the web graph. That’s likely to cause confusion.
I enjoy using the Bambu Lab P1S printer and mostly the basic PLA. I wanted to make sure I got a 100% accurate response (AI is only so good, lol) from someone at your company. Are Bambu filaments BPA free?
Had to come here to find the page, this should most definitely be front and center to the filament store page or even pasted onto bambu lab homepage as this will attract more users to receive clear insight on what they’re seeking in a printer or filament usage.
Recommend attaching some basic user print profiles best suited for the filament described. (It would be nice to simply upload or host our customized filament parameters within our makerworld homepages or a separate category via makerworld.) These could potentially be the best case scenarios for starting users off with the best settings per their setup to help get them going without complete failure. *Bambu Labs default settings are great but open up some user interaction - limit settings so they cant be completely out of a tolerable range of use.
Great work as always and keep it up! Looking forward to seeing this grow and will use it to help guide others along their journey
It’s non-intuitive on how to select which ones to compare, I think mainly because it shows up populated with random stuff. But it works fine once you understand how to populate the comparisons.
Suggest the ‘Moisture Absorption’ square be like a gas gauge and needle sweep, with ‘Low’ absorption on the left side, and ‘high’ on the right. So there’s a visual representation of how fast the filament wants to absorb moisture compared to others.
Suggest the ‘Heat Resistance’ show a little bar graph consistent with the others above, but show blue (cold) on the left to red (hot) on the right. Along with temp below it.
Not sure on the ‘Blast Drying Oven’, mabey just ‘Filament Dryer’ would be sufficient.
This is great for me since I roam all over the functional needs of 3D printing. My suggestion is for Bambu to make an app or downloadable database that combines all of the information. Having to get online, look for printed pages you saved and possibly having dated information is the downside of this.
I think there is an error in the Filament Guide regarding ASA-CF. It states that all nozzle size are supported but I believe 0.2 nozzle is not. Like all CF reinforced filament, ASA-CF should bot be used with 0.2 nozzle. Please correct the guide. Thanks
@BambuLab - It would be helpful to know the health risks associated with different filament types.
The marketing makes it look like you can use any filament in your home and breathe the fumes with no ill effects. I get headaches and respiratory issues even just printing with PLA.
Just saying “use in a well ventilated area” is insufficient.
Right. It’s buried in a PDF that has an obscure acronym for its title. The filament guide would be much more helpful if it categorized the filaments by health risk. And perhaps how to mitigate any risks, especially when used in a home setting.
Look, it’s maybe something to put front and centre on the list of criteria, sure, but MSDS is the opposite of obscure. Anyone who doesn’t know what it means has no business being involved with anything more complex than operating a light switch.
