Used both laser and cutter tool heads for the first time yesterday, just cutting the PU leatherette cloth and laser etching it to make up some custom revolver holsters for my son.
Easy enough to fit it all together although as top panel access is required it does involve removing the AMS 2 and HT which is a bit annoying. Found I kept closing the front vent flap, didn’t have that problem when accessing from the side of the machine instead.
Cutter works well and gives a nice clean cut, laser produced a good image and I didn’t see any smoke at all and on inspecting the printer there is no residue I can feel or see (still cleaned it regardless). It did have a slight burning odour but that is back to its normal plastic smell today.
Studio is a little clunky to use, workflow meant I initially lasered the design onto the complete sheet then cut it which obviously involved swapping toolheads and laser/cutting mats. You can break the processes out into steps but it all needs ‘align’ or when you run it through the slicing stage it moves all of the design around for optimal fit - think of it as auto arrange on slice.
Biggest pain was trying to align the cut aspects in Bambu studio, when you select basic cut and go onto the next step in the process it produces a solid black, filled shape - this makes it almost impossible to align with the image of the lasered design as you can’t see it! @product-request - can you make the cut overlay translucent so you can see designs and align it please!
I then flipped the process and completed the cut-out first as its then possible to align the laser images onto the pre-cut material. But that then results in the material flapping around as its not secured to the laser cutting tray - ended up with a random carbon blob in one corner and for etching, not cutting with the laser its not getting consistent depth thanks to this.
Bambu do mention some options like a grid and smaller magnetic feet to help retain smaller items being lasered on the wiki alongside images of both but I can’t find them for sale on their site and they didn’t come with the printer either.
@BambuLab - any update on when the laser grid module and smaller feet will be available for sale?
Need to add rivets and sew then up but came out pretty well and will do the job!
