During the latest update of Bambu Studio profiles/presets, it seems that the Elephant Foot Compensation (EFC) of the stock profiles have changed.
For example, if I use 0.4 Nozzle profile, none of the profiles have any EFC anymore.
For the 0.6 Nozzle however, the 0.30mm preset has 0,15 EFC, but none of the other layer height presets has it.
It seems like there has been an oversight here, right?
I am at least personally experiencing trouble with tolerances all of the sudden - and it took me a while to find out why.
I know, we can always create a custom profile. And I am personally not new to 3D-printing - but for a novice person, they might never figure out why their tolerances does seem to fit.
Should this be changed? Have you experienced similar issues with the newest profiles/presets?
Thank you for this subject!
I am one of the novice persons, and this is the first time I have a clue, why I suddenly have problems. I wanted to print several puzzle boxes as chrismas presents, but the mechanisms did not work. Everything is suddenly too tight.
Would you suggest making a 0.15mm adjustment as a standard for the 0.4mm nozzle too? Or is there a rule of thumb, a calculation or other way to find the correct value?
I did send an inquiry to their support - I didnāt know I could simply report it as a bug on Github. But it seems like they removed the Elephant Foot Compensation for all profiles of the A1 Mini in the recent Bambu Studio update (1.8.4). At the same time, they added the Elephant Foot Compensation to all profiles of the A1, although changing it to 0,075 mm instead of the previous 0,15 mm
Ah, fantastic! Thank you for that. I totally forgot to follow-up on this issue, so I never added the issue anywhere (other than in my support ticket back then).
Fingers crossed it will be fixed.
Oh, and if you have general issues with the First Layer being too low, consider checking the screws for the synthetic stone. It has already helped out a few lads on Reddit! But it is so easy to miss this potential fix on the Wiki
I donāt see any problem. On the default settings, pla + from esun I had zero problems with joining two parts with super glue and have it aligned perfectly, I mean really perfectly . It seems playing with these settings has worse outcome than leaving it on default. I used joints, I cut perpendicular in half,
Itās now the end of April, and this issue (reported in December 2023) is still affecting me. I canāt print concentric rings separated by 0.4 mm vertically without them going together into a single disk. 0.4 mm begone!
I added 0.2 Foot Comp (coz yeah, BL just went ahead and removed a setting that was working before) and things got slightly better, but still first layers touches across the supposedly 0.4 mm space.Notice that 0.2 compensation on both sides totals the real separation I specifiedā¦
This exact model prints without a glitch on the X1C (even using 0.25 tolerance), and prints without a glitch on Voron and Prusa Mini printers. Is it that the A1 mini is not a āprinters for grown upsā?
Print details (bed leveling and Auto Flow Calibration on). 5 walls everywhere, but otherwise vanilla print. Polymaker PLA, specifically a color of which I have printed over three rolls without ANY problems.
Please share your advice on this. If I were using unknown PLAās, or experimenting with wild settings, it would make sense to continue tuning and picking around with this, but truly, this a simple print
thanks, @riba2233 . I thought about that, as well as adding X-Y hole/contour compensation. What bugged me, though, is that this is a model I want to share, and wanted to understand why the same settings and filament all of the sudden did not work; people in the community download your file, and all of the sudden it doesnāt workā¦ Real bummer
So, I bit the bullet, and re-calibrated the flow on the filament. Even when it printed great before, calibration showed it to be way off correct flow. With the newly calibrated profile, it prints great (Now I just need to remember to turn off automated flow calibration when I print with it).
So, the problem is solved; as for WHY this happened, I can think of only two reasons:
The particular filament has been stting on the AMS for a couple of months - Then again, where I leave, humidity is not a serious problem
After procrastinating for quite a while, I only recently updated the firmware with an update that has been available for a while (the one that totally blanks the Elefant foot compensation setting). I am almost certain the issue was introduced by the āupgradeā.
Unresolved, though, is the issue of how to support printing profiles uploaded to MW etc. for others to use, considering that even BLās own profiles for brands and filaments that it āknowsā are way off after whatever they do on upgrades (?) I download a profile, I expect it to work, it doesnāt, the author tells me that it shouldā¦ What gives? Perhaps I need to add testing samples and alternative profiles for every potential problem.
