Wanted the smooth texture, and the stock plate works awesome with ABS. Each time I try the Glacier (yes I’ve washed it), I have warpage and print failures. I’m about to just give up on this plate for ABS.
Any other recommendations for Smooth prints for ABS? Is the Bambulab version good?
For ABS/ASA you best bet is the smooth PEI plate. If you wont get good adhesion with it next step would be nano polymer adhesive, it will make bed adhesion problems a thing of the past.
I only use my glacier for nylon.
Ive been using the Bambu smooth PEI with no issues. I sent back my glacier for the same reason.
Sorry I don’t have any input for ABS, but my glacier plate is working excellently for PPA-CF. I am using a little bit of Bambu liquid glue though.
I’m not sure what to think of the Glacier either. I haven’t seen any added value yet.
I’ve had good experiences with Kapton for ABS and ASA. Maybe you should give it a try.
I’ve had nothing but great success with the BIQU Glacier Plate on my H2D. Very first times printing ABS, very long prints of like 8 hours+ and absolute zero warping.
But I’ve also heard others with bad experiences too. So it’s weird. Almost makes me wonder if there were bad batches of plates.
Have you modified settings compared to the stock textured PEI plate? I’m using default settings for Polymaker ABS. No issues on stock plate.
Are you using an adhesive? If not, that might be your issue.
I’ve seen this mentioned a few times so I wasn’t expecting much but the Bambu smooth plate has been sold out. So far I’ve printed ABS, ASA, PA6 and PLA on the glacier and it’s been phenomenal. No glue and no warping.
I had an issue with a tall cylindrical print in translucent PLA but I’m pretty sure that was the H2D going rogue and smashing into it.
What brand of filament? Maybe I just got a bad batch.
Polymaker ASA and the others were Bambu. It might just be a bit of a lottery like the Bambu Supertack plates.
I think when we say “good adhesion” some of us mean different things. For some it seems a successful print is “good adhesion”. For me it means I can do a challenging print with small contact area without failure.
For me the Glacier only has decent adhesion with Nylon, but its not what I would call good. With ABS and PLA it has below average adhesion, yes it can do a simple prints but the grip is minimal and will fail with anything challenging.
Good first layer adhesion for me would be the ability to print this (without brim) successfully:
Have you tried that on any bambu plates? What do you think of the factory plates vs the biqu?
Like I said Glacier is mainly good with nylon, anything else the adhesion is similar to the stock textured PEI plate. I am waiting for Frostbite for PLA/PETG. ABS, ASA, PC, TPU ive been using the textured PEI mainly.
TPU is awesome on the glacier too. The only 2 filaments I feel comfortable printing on my glacier is nylon and tpu.
How are you running it with the stock texture PEI plate setting? Isn’t the encoded value a smooth/hightemp PEI? The texture is finer and thus doesn’t need the gcoded offset that ‘Texture PEI’ has.
This is hilariously dismissive of anyone who had a different experience than you. My biqu plate has better adhesion than my stock textured plate with the materials I have tried so far.
You can turn off build plate detection in software. You correct that this should be ran with the smooth PEI settings.
Not trying to be dismissive, just trying to pin down the language of what good adhesion means.
I did not turn off any detection, Bambu Studio does know it is a Smooth PEI plate, and has the stock settings for that. I did not override any settings on either the textured or smooth plates. Works fine on textured, always gives me troubles with smooth.
