I uploaded my K-Cup dispenser to MakerWorld. It consists of about 45 files. When I try to go for extra points by being the first to upload a “profile”, it asks me for one 3MF file. Are they wanting me to use one of those 45 files randomly to serve as my profile? Makes no sense to me. Others have tried to explain this to me. Be the first to break through the hard outer shell.
Is there a specific reason why you didn’t combine all the parts into a single file? Bambu Studio allows up to 36 build plates in one 3MF file.
However, if you have multiple 3MF files for a model, you’ll need to choose one initially and add the others later as additional print profiles.
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In Bambu Studio, creating a single 3MF file (profile) allows you to have 36 print ‘plates’.
The idea is for you, as creator, is to group the 45 parts (perhaps by color, or by part size, or by part height, or by part function etc), and place them onto as many print plates as necessary. Then you save this 3MF profile file and upload it into Maker World as a 3MF profile.
When other users see your model, and download your 3MF file/profile, they can print the various plates as needed.
More about plates management here: Plates Management | Bambu Lab Wiki
Guidelines about using profiles here: Print Profile Upload Guidance | Bambu Lab Wiki
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THAT… explains everything!
I had no idea I could do that.
So let me recap:
- I take all the individual 3MF files required to make my model and blend them into one 3MF file. I post that as my profile to get the extra points
- In the folders provided, I leave all the individual 3MF files for those who choose to use them one at a time. But then, that’s just extra work for no reason. Forget that. Ditch that folder.
- I continue to leave a folder to hold all the STL files for those who don’t want the 3MF multi-plate file.
Many thanks to you and 01makes for explaining that.
I see a button Create New Project in Bambu Studio. Is that where I put all my individual 3MF files so that can be made into one large file?
You’re correct. Start from Create New Project.
You can upload to MW directly from Bambu Studio after you’re done, or you can save the file to your computer and upload through the MW website.
Note that the idea of the print profiles is to help other users print easily from MW, so you’re expected to configure the print settings (the panels at the left side of Bambu Studio) if the defaults don’t work for your parts. You should also test print using your print profile before uploading to MW.
I’m guessing you didn’t follow my advice some time ago and explore the Wiki.
Start here.
https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/studio-handy
Everything @01makes said is correct, follow that.
You strike me as someone who would revel in exploring at your own pace.
The wiki contains significant amounts of knowledge with annotated screenshots, videos and walkthroughs.
I also strongly recommend hovering over everything to see the tooltip to say what it does and hitting everything in sight to explore what you can achieve.
Create a test file and play around. Choose one thing to learn, expire it and repeat.
Or start with a simple model that only needs one plate, such as a bag clip or a filament clip, and use that to learn the process of creating a model, importing into Bambu Studio, test-printing the model, saving the 3MF file, and uploading to MakerWorld. Spread these tasks into a week or two, take your time and make the learning an enjoyable experience.
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Thanks for responding.
“…they can print the various plates as need.” I think that answers my question for this morning. I was wondering how the user could control whether or not to use brims on the tubes. I thought that I could slice the plates with tubes with a brim and the plates without tubes without a brim. That way, all of my recommendations would be baked in.
But I could never get that to happen. I only had the choice of every plate getting a brim, or none of them having a brim. I thought that was the whole purpose of the profile-- so the user just prints everything trusting my settings. But, if they can still tweak things, it’ll be their decision about the brims and anything else. I think I like that idea.
Now that I have the thing published, it occurs to me that people who hang it on drywall would probably use a roundhead screw rather than flathead screws. So I guess I need to post an addendum where the chamfers have been removed from the screw holes in the mounting brackets. I guess that would be a secondary profile?
Yes. That’s why I was frustrated about not being able to control the brim settings. I wanted that decision to be mine so that new users wouldn’t waste filament by having to reprint tubes that fell over from not having a brim.
And yes, the dispenser in the picture was printed by me using all the settings in the profile.
Today’s lesson.
You can change most settings in many different ways.
You have changed them globally, that is the most common.
If you want some to use brims, then:
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Turn off the brim for the global settings.
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Select the model that requires a brim and change to the Object panel (left side of the screen, it is one of two tabs [Global] & [Objects].
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Locate the selected object in the list of plates with objects on them.
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You will find panels at the bottom with almost all setting options.
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Turn on the brim.
Doing this means you can tweak the settings globally or model-specific.
If you were so inclined, you could have an entirely different set of settings for each model.
By model, I mean individual part.
All of this is in the Wiki.
Some pictures to help.
This is the global settings indicator.
When you have selected a model and swapped to the objects tab you see this.
- Object Tab selected
- Part selected
- Other Tab selected
- Brim Options
You’d be wrong Malc. Unfortunately, many technical articles are not adequate for some of us. We need specific examples from people with whom we can dialogue. I get this same kind of response (sometimes) from the Fusion forum. Some of those folks think that fielding questions on forums is nothing more than giving reading assignments. I may be wrong, but I don’t think there would be any reason for a forum to exist if that were true. All questions would be answered by a bot with the same response: “Look in the book!”
No, I’m doing both, reading and asking questions. I think I’m about half way there now as far as uploading models and all that goes with. I’m slow. The typical user never had a single question to ask. It was obvious to them how to do it.
I’ve always needed more help than most. If I continue to sharpen my skills in that area, I will probably get it down pat. But then again, maybe I’ll never dream up another good model. In that case I’ll never really know the ins and outs of it. I’ll move on to something else.
If I stay with it and get really good at it, I may post a YouTube video especially for my people, the short bus crowd.
Actually, that’s pretty much the way I operate. I can eat an elephant if allowed to do it one bite at a time and given a lot of time 
In this case, my biggest confusion was all about how to produce a 3MF file that contained a lot of other files. I couldn’t wrap my head around that. I thought I had conquered the task by merely posting photos with a write up and then making 3 folders, one containing STLs, another one for 3MFs, another one containing print segments for testing.
I’m getting there though and I appreciate all the help.