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Video doesn’t disclose all technical details. Its just a teaser preview. But you are right, it’s GCODE based and the axis of the printer do the entire job. GCODE sequence for plate swap is added after slicing. Further details will follow…
Arh I thought it would be modifying the g-code. But i thought that the Bambu G-Code could not be altered as Bambu is a closed system?
It is a great concept and it will propel the A1 series to being the go to for print farms. being able to run them at night will increase output significantly (for an already awesome printer).
That said it will need to be price competitive otherwise it will be copied pretty quick. I think the one for the Prusa was a little expensive.
Plus with python you can package it back into gcode.3mf files too for wireless sending.
So I think it would be fairly possible for example to write a script to merge the gcode from all plates in the 3mf file into a single gcode code stream (with plate removal additions added) - so you could then kick off a multiple plate print wirelessly from within BS.
Also I noticed that the latest version of BS has enabled post processing gcode scripts properly - rather than just when you do export gcode as previously - although I don’t think it would be possible to merge multiple plates together using this approach.
You surely mean the Y axis, right? But no, there are no limitations in the bed movements and therefore no profiles for slicer and no magazine leveling. It’s plug and play. At the beginning I also tried just to adopt our JobOx principle to this printer, but it turned out, that many things just don’t work that simple so the development took longer then expected. This release will show some features not yet seen on JobOx.
Another chalange was making it as affordable as possible, since it probably wouldn’t work when selling a simple add-on at the price of the actual printer. Now I’m sure that currently planed price tag will barely motivate someone building an own version.
Really impressive! I like that this keeps prints on the bed, even though it would increase costs due to needing more beds, I think that this way could be cool as one could put an NFC or QR on the beds and keep better track of batches.
Not an A1M owner but I still love to keep track of these bed changing projects!
It would be pretty cool if Bambu made the magnets for the build plate electromagnetic, so you could instantly release the tension on it for swapping plates. How are you overcoming that?