Hello, I got today my new X1CC and tried to insert a 64 and 128GB SD card. The X1 don’t discover the cards. If I do the same with (2 different) 32GB cards all works fine. Any idea why my X1 don’t work with SD cards bigger then 32GB? Thank you in advance for any hint or advice.
https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/faq
You can read the section of the FAQ linked above regarding SD cards, and Windows filesystem formatting if above 32 GB. You should be able to format the larger cards for FAT32 on the printer, or from a Linux or Apple computer, and then they should work okay. I’m using a 128 GB card in mine (formatted on Mac) and it works fine.
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I’m unable to get the X1CC to read my brand new 128GB SD card (Sandisk). I tried its default file system (ExFAT) and used my Mac to re-format it as FAT. No joy. Is there a way to have the printer format it so that I know it’s done correctly? (and yes I did read the FAQ item about it.
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FAT32 is the needed format for X1C. Did you triy to format the SD card with the printer?
No I can’t figure out how to do that. I went to the Folder → SD menu choice and it says “Empty” with no option to format, and I couldn’t find anywhere else in the menus to format.
Never mind, I just found it. Apparently the setting is unavailable during printing, when I had been skimming through the menus. Thank you!
Why would you need any amount of tens of gigabytes of capacity for 3d printing files?
They’re at maximum only a few megabytes in size.
And it makes no sense to have hundreds of them on your card when you have to navigate them by scrolling though preview icons. You don’t have a search or sort function.
So why not just take a smaller card you don’t use anymore for devices that need a lot of space for their data?
And you can still buy cards with as little as 8 GB brand new.
Time lapse videos require a microSD card. That’s why.
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I didn’t suggest not to use any µSD card.
How big do you think those time lapse videos will get?
My self-sliced 3DBenchy took 30 minutes to print, the time lapse video is 10 seconds long and has a file size of 3.5 MB. Larger objects will result in bigger file sizes but you still won’t generate gigabytes of data per print.
I have an 8GB card in mine, and the third print I tried couldn’t save the video because it didn’t have enough space (this card was formatted before the first print).
I came here to see the size limit of SD cards, and I’m glad to see that I can use something larger than 32GB if I want.
I might just start wth 32GB, though, and see how things go. If I can save 7-8 videos, then that’s probably sufficient.
I just found out that if you monitor the print in the Bambu Studio Device tab the video is being recorded automatically. Since this is no time lapse it fills up the µSD card quickly.
You can disable this behaviour by clicking on the Camera Setting nut icon:
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How long did it take to format the card? I tried a 512 GB card I had available, and it simply sat in the printer with a “formatting…” message on the screen. When I turned off the printer and put it in my PC, it looked like it didn’t format at all: still showed the original exFAT formatting.
Hi @alfrank,
pls don’t forget that the printer writes a logfile as well. Mine had 700MB when Bambu Lab asked me to send it… 
Kind regards from Vienna
Chris
The formatting of my 128 GB card took a very long time. I want to say it was a few hours. I eventually got it to work only by using the formatting option in the menu on the display of the printer.
I bought 128 GB because (1) it’s a fast card, (2) it was only a few dollars more and I’ll never need to upgrade it, and (3) I can re-use it later on for other purposes, if I choose. In hindsight I probably would have bought a 64 GB card just to make it faster.
Interestingly, my card shows something like 71 GB in use, so I will need to pull it some time and figure out what the heck is going on.
Thanks, I’ll leave my card in overnight and see what happens.
Just an update on how things went with my 512 GB card.
I tried formatting the microSD using Windows Powershell with the following command
format /fs:FAT32 <Drive letter>:
This allowed me to monitor how long the formatting took. It got all the way to 100% after a few hours but finished with an error message (don’t recall the message unfortunately).
However, it must have formatted most of the drive, because when I put it in the X1C it finished formatting in a few minutes. I’ve been using it since: it seems to work just fine for creating videos, etc. I’ll continue to monitor.
Thanks.
Simply format it on the printer itself. I did this today with a brand new, fresh out of the package 64GB SD Card, and it worked no problem. 59GB of available space after formatting, which sounds about right due to file system overhead. The formatting took less than 5 seconds.
Update: card seems to have failed after a few weeks: might be a bad microSD after all.