I just got a set of aftermarket PEO/PEI/H1H/ETC. build plates that the manufacturer suggest I set the Plate type in Bambu Studio as Smooth PEI, which I currently don’t own to test if the aftermarket plates work the same as the OEM plate. But I’ve seen many people tuning temperature and first layer speeds for 3rd party plates creating a bunch of new filament profiles.
I suggest we get to create new plate profiles that apply certain modifications to the filaments, or on the flip side, allow us to add 3rd party plates to our filament profiles, so we don’t end up with a never ending list of filament profiles that will make no sense to anyone but the creator like:
- Generic PETG on Carbon Fiber PET Plate
- Generic PETG on Triangles PEO Plate
- Generic PETG on Wavy Silk Pattern Plate
- Generic PETG on Sparkly PEY Plate
- Generic PETG on Grid PES Plate
- Etc.
I’ve seen people argue against this because they’ve gotten accustomed to the workaround, but it doesn’t mean there isn’t a better way for other people.
Even for the official Bambu Lab 3D Effects Plates I think it would be better to have a plate type specifically for them, because it makes it easier for the end user to know what plate to choose, and for advanced users maybe the behavior and settings of Smooth PEI and 3D Effects is not the same.
