Hey everyone,
I am currently looking for a printer to print some design stuff. Therefore I need a printer wich can print with up to at least 1.2mm nozzles. I have already seen that for the X1 and P1 series there is the Revo system which supports a higher range of nozzle diameters. Now I have 2 questions:
- Does anyone of you know a possibility to use (third party) larger nozzles on the A1?
- Is the Revo System on the X1/P1 still usable after the latetst Bambu Update? I have heard that it limited the usage of certain 3rd Party addons.
Thank you very much in advance!
Jannis
I have found a few third party nozzles that will work, but you do need to be careful. Some nozzles have an extended heat break area length that has been known to cause scraping on the beds. The one with interchangable tips has been the most successful for me
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Thank you very much for your reply and the information! I found a third party hotend with an interchangeable tip and will try it!
Have a great day!!
are you looking for 3 party upgrades like aliexpress a1 nozzles
Yes I am! By now I have found a hotend with changeable nozzles but not yet any fitting nozzles with a 1.2mm diameter…
Any tips are appreciated!!
So 0.8 isn’t enough for you?
Yes, I actually want to use very thick lines and layer heights as a design feature. I did prints on an Ultimaker with a 1.2mm nozzle which turned out super nice. Now I am looking for cheaper printers to increase my production capacity:)
If you’re not printing fiber filaments you could attempt to drill out a stainless one.
I am going to try it!
Thank you!
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I really like the enthusiasm here.
Don’t want to slow guys down but did anyone try math first ?
Standard is 0.4mm for the nozzle and the entire Bambu stuff is aiming for this size.
Let’s say you extrude filament with a 0.4mm nozzle compared to a 1.2mm nozzle…
And we keep it simple and only want to know the basics.
Can you set a 1.2 or 1mm nozzle in the slicer ??
A 0.4mm nozzle has an opening area of 0.126mm squared.
But for a 1mm it is already a whopping 0.7854, for 1.2mm nozzle it is 1.13mm squared…
Or in other words : To actually extrude a line the extruder has to run 10 times as fast as for a 0.4mm nozzle - depending on the layer height of course.
Printing thick isn’t as easy as just whacking a big hotend on the printer…
And what about the printer? I’m new to this so maybe I’m missing something, but when I used Bambu Studio and I wanted to use a .06 nozzle for a print, I got an error that the printer nozzle did not match and I had to change it on the printer. I don’t recall any choices except .02, .04 and .06 on the printer…
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See, that’s another problem…
So even if a 1mm hotend goes in there is not way to get it working as advertised.
0.2 to 0.8mm is supported if I am not mistaken.
Not sure if creating a new printer in Studio would help but am confident that 1.0 or even 1.2mm nozzles will bring some headaches…
Yeah there will be some workarounds and custom filament profiles needed. The printer still allows you to send a file for say 1.2mm nozzle with 0.8 set in the machine, it just makes you confirm you want to send it. Using orcaslicer you can make a printer profile for 1.2 nozzle and whatever layer heights you want I believe but yes it’ll be up to the user to figure out speeds, ect.
The op said he’s used 1.2mm before on other printers so should be able to use some of that stuff for baseline.