Not illegal, just unethical
Lazmo88 stated that Swapmod wasn’t interested in industrializing an A1 version of the automated plate switching functionality.
Your reply was “This is not entirely correct.”
What is that supposed to mean? That’s kind of a cheeky answer for what is essentially the crux of this issue. Theodore has a leg to stand on if Swapmod or Jobox at any time indicated they were not interested in A1 plate switching.
To me that opens up the floodgates for anyone to go create it. And by you stating “not ENTIRELY correct” implies that there is some inherent correctness to it.
I’m with lazmo in that just because you have a mechanism for the A1 mini, it does not mean that you have a monopoly on every bedslinger out there.
And lean on the Hail Mary quote… when European Mariners met Asian Mariners for the first time and they both were using sails to power their boats, nobody was surprised. It’s just understood that’s how you do it. For a Y-axis bed slinger, it’s no surprise that the plate is loaded and ejected on the Y-axis. It would be insanely complicated to do it on the X-axis, and ridiculously overengineered to use a 6 DOF arm.
For Y-Axis bed sligners, either you replace the plate on the Y-axis or you tilt the whole thing forward and nudge it off with the toolhead once the plate is cool.
Vorons have had plate replacement apparatus’ made before, is Jobox/Swapmod copying them?
If he’s copying you, but you haven’t created it yet, then is he copying you?
The whole Bambu community loses if you have a novel idea and the philosophy is “you guys have to waaaaaaiiiitttttt for usssss toooo maaaaaaaaaake ittttt fooooorrrrr the Aaaaaaaa1111111.” When there are people who can and want to do it right now.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. Please excuse me, but I will not continue this discussion. I already sayed all I wanted to say and can not win here anything, but loose a lot of time. I respect your opinion even if I’m not sharing it entirely. I agree to fact, that when someone not hurry up, there will be others who does.
You can get ones at the moment for the A1 mini, it’s called SwapMod if you want to have a look and take inspiration for one for the bambulab a1.