So, I currently don’t have a Bambu Lab printer, which means I can’t upload any coloured versions of my models, as print profiles require an image of the print.
I understand this limitation for most print profiles, but I think for ones that are just coloured, this shouldn’t be necessary. For people like me, this means if someone wants to print one of my models in colour, they have to go and do it themselves in Bambu studio, which takes time, when I’ve already created a coloured version.
Instead, I think only a photo of the coloured model from inside Bambu Studio should be necessary for these profiles.
Hopefully this can get implemented, because this limitation is slightly annoying. Thanks!
This would most likely be abused, people would claim it’s colored so they can’t print it. For mine before I got my Bambu I just uploaded the photo of the normal one and mentioned “colored” in the description.
The problem is that adding colour can and does make printing harder.
Whilst this problem would be model-dependent, anything other than changing the colour by layers increases the printing complexity and likelihood of issues you may not be aware of if you do not print models in multiple colours often.
One simple example is the order of printing of each colour.
The slicer may start printing blue before red, which is normally not an issue, but, in my hypothetical model, this means blue is printing in the air as the red part it would have connected to has yet to print.
This would not be a problem with a single-colour model as this issue never arises. Unless you know what to look for on every layer of the print in preview mode, it takes printing it to find out one side has lots of spaghetti.
Photo evidence of a successful print guarantees it has printed once successfully and hopefully will do so always.
You should also note; that you are required to provide a printed version of your model and one for the print profile.
I couldn’t disagree more. Multi color prints aren’t as simple as that. If you don’t set it up properly it can cause problems. Default settings are rarely the best option.
One of the other things here, is the photo requirement is suppose to be there to help show that the print profiles are printable. Having an opt out for that kind of defeats the purpose.
Oh, but it is necessary. How will the wall generation affect your print? What about color thickness and translucency?
And then there are the issues that all prints have - do parts fit, screw holes line up and correct size, support and infill work properly to produce a good model, etc, etc, etc.
Color models are still models. They can be all kinds of bad with features that just don’t print properly, are oriented wrong on build plates, don’t have strength in the right directions, or whatever. It’s all stuff you find out when you actually print.
You might be experienced enough to whip out stuff that prints right the first time but without a printer, you likely aren’t in that category (no offense intended).
How would you like it if you downloaded and printed something only to find out you wasted half a kilo of filament because the creator couldn’t be bothered to verify it would print right? It stinks. You wouldn’t want it done to you so you should understand the requirements so you don’t do it to other people.
Those are some important things I learned, and still try and find the right balance for. There’s a number of dynamics that having multiple colors can change, especially as you push the colors vertically.
Like having an overhang feature that is properly supported with single color, but having it multi-color can break that support unless you properly anchor it.
I’ve had a few curiosities with multi color printing that weren’t so obvious until I hit print. Experience is helping with that now, but if you’re not doing it, it’s not always directly obvious the little course changes and tweaks you need to make along the way on a multi color model vs a single color one.
This is just one more request to be exempted from the photo requirement. One reason that such requests keep coming up is that MW is known to make exceptions to this rule. There have been uploads without photos, some even got featured (at least in the past).
I would suggest MW take the no-exception approach when enforcing this rule, like the traffic law about stopping at red lights.
I say just upload it. MW really like to pick and chose what rules they like to enforce on any given day. Maybe you’ll be one of the lucky ones to slip through the cracks.
Pro tip, mark it as CO0, they ignore anything regarding them.
Are these reports being addressed? I have reported about 50 models in the last 7 days for ‘no physical image,’ but I haven’t received any feedback, and all the models are still up.
My guess, and guess only, is that there may be accounts that have big number of models and those models don’t have photos and MW doesn’t want to strictly enforce the rule in the fear that they would lose these model counts, or MW may lose the ability to attract such “big” acccounts to move to MW from other platforms.
Whatever the reason(s), making exceptions to the rule is like telling drivers they have to stop at red lights, but IF they believe they can go through without causing an accident then they don’t have to stop. And then complain that drivers don’t follow the rule and cause accidents everywhere.
Sorry