Realy? I searched, but did not find anything about lw-pla.
I would be happy about any help you can provide me.
I’m planning to build a plane with it, and most of them use lw-pla, at least for some parts.
Currently, I’m still waiting for my printer. I hope it get’s delivered within the next days.
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Sorry, I should have been more clear; it was discussed on the Bambu Lab Discord server.
If you’re looking to build a plane then some of them require a specific printing mode that only certain slicers can do
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Ah, that’s why. I’m not on discord.
Yes, I’ve read that too.
No problem, if that does not work: RC cars are also cool. 
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So, I got my first spool LW-PLA and tried a test print with your settings. No modified g-code nothing. All I did, was editing the profile to your settings, disabled flow calibration, bed leveling and first layer check and hit print. This is the result. Not good, but far better than I expected.
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Im building a plane right now with LW-PLA. Havent modified gcode just changed some setting. I think its coming out ok!! Ill post some pics
Which PLA-LW is that? I’ve been trying with the Polymaker PLA-LW, but I’m having trouble getting it to stick to the bed (PEI). It’s the only filament giving me that trouble.
It also oozes a lot more than I’d expect a pre-foamed to ooze.
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I’m using esun lw-pla.
The most important part is, to remove travel time. Once the print has started, don’t make him pause for anything, and use the fastest travel speed your printer is capable of.
Avoid crossing walls is also something I’m using for lw-pla. A bit of extruded material inside the print isn’t important, but if you cross the outer walls too often, the strings from the foaming material start to adhere in visible places. Removing them is annoying, especially if you only have one outer wall.
I had no problems with bed-adhesion. Only one time, I made the support stand to small, and as z-hopping does not work without retrakt, the nozzle kicked my support tower off the bed. So I added some glue stick and it worked perfekt
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Has anybody played with Polymaker PLA-LW? The documentation says it’s pre-foamed and supposed to print with typical PLA settings, but I’m having no luck with bed adhesion and the Polymaker or Generic PLA profiles.
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So I printed most of the parts of the plane, here is what it looks like.
It has some errors, like small ripped parts due to too sticky support material, but I don’t care about that much. The later parts are pretty fine now, as I learned much on how to handle the pla-lw and if I’m done with it, I’ll reprint it most likely.
So long story short: here it is.
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Which LW-PLA did you use? Do you have any profiles you could share?
I’m using ePLA-LW Natural from eSUN.
I don’t have an own profile to share, I just edited the settings to those mowcius posted and reduced printing speed and some other small things.
I don’t know how to export all those settings.
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LOL I asked about PLA LW about 10 days ago, today I searched for PLA and found all of this.
Going to put the drier on and have another crack at it, any tweaks I will post (If I know how) here.
Thank you, I will plug these into my settings see if I can get the printing to look less like a SciFi character and more like a Spitfire.
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looks like you guys are having some success here, out of curiosity what temperatures are you using on the Esun LW PLA?
My X1C just showed up and am thinking about doing some testing on LW PLA in the coming days.
270°C, as shown in the picture on the first reply.
Good luck and have fun. 
Join titan dynamics on FB we use it for the planes! This group is amazing they even design and sell planes in stl files. I’m doing the raptor when my x1c comes next week
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This has been super helpfull! I’ll receive my eSun LW-PLA and this will be a great starting point profile! Thanks for all the input
Any chance you have figured out how to export your PLA LW profile settings yet? I would really like to be able to print top quality parts for RC Airplanes with my new X-1 Carbon
Go to this forum and you have print screens of another profile that semingly work well! I will try in a bit this profile:
Hi, I was reading some of your posts from a year ago because I’m having the exact same problem trying to get lightweight PLA from Polymaker to stick to the bambu PEI plate. I also bought a third-party plate, brand new and get the same result. Did you ever figure out how to make the lightweight pla stick to the pei plate long enough to print a part? Tall skinny parts, like airplane ailerons, are simply not working for me with 0% success rate. Same part prints fine in regular PLA. Thank you!