I received my new X1C 2 days ago, got it via the Black Friday sale, along with another AMS. I haven’t had much time to play with it, so today, I decided to check out the sample models on the SD card. I tried the screw gauge, printed OK. Ho Hum, scrolling down the list, I see another screw gauge, looks a little different then the first one, so selected it. Sat down in front of the printer just to watch it go through all of it’s gyrations, bed leveling etc. then the print started - along about 10-15 %, (I wasn’t watching the screen that close), after printing the first layer, the print head starts moving all over the place, but no filament is being extruded - Whats this? then a new screen pops up with a message, telling me that the first layer has been printed, and no defects have been found! How clever! Now I have to waste more filament to see what else is in store…
Well that’s discouraging. My X1C just shipped tonight (ordered within the first two hours of the sale, for what that’s worth) and I’m trying to be excited. Sounds like the AI can’t distinguish between a clean build plate and perfect first layer.
I was under the impression from other posts and reviews that the X1Cs didn’t ship with an SD card. I guess yours did?
The X series is the only Bambu printer that doesn’t ship with an SD card. It doesn’t need one to print. Unlike the other Bambu printers it has onboard storage that it can run a print from. You will need to add a SD card if you want to store video from the printer, save previously printed gcode or manual transfer/send files (without printing) to the printer.
I’ll admit his post was a little confusing to me too but after I re-read it I think it was meant to be positive. What he watched was the first layer complete and then it do the first layer inspection (that was the part about the print head moving all about but nothing coming out). I don’t think he was being sarcastic, I think he really meant it was clever. He can correct me if I’m wrong…
Right you are, that is why one of the pop up messages stated that video could not be saved because there was no sd card - all of the on board models are just that, on board stored in some kind of internal memory.
So, in scrolling through this on board memory, I found that the first model in the list was the model that I had earlier printed, which was stored in color, whereas the other models are stored in B&W text. I assumed that like the P1S I own, models were stored on a removeable micro sd card - instead, they are stored on board somewhere else internally, making me wonder how I can access them, and what happens when this memory gets full -
Can I download them to a removable sd card?
Must I remove any models I print eventually to conserve this internal memory like a PC?
How much internal memory is there?
Is the removable sd card only for video?
More questions I know, but there does not seem to be a manual that answers them, only the wiki where the answers may or may not be apparent.
I do think that the ability to scan the first layer is magical, and my earlier comments were not meant to be sarcastic, only amazement! This machine is so much more better than any machine I have ever owned. Well done, Bambu!
The X series stores only the last print that was sent to it.
No, but they are available here.
https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/general/bbl-printer-internal-sliced-files
No, as it only stores one print (the last one) and this is over written the next time you start a print. I’m not sure of the internal storage size but I haven’t ever hit the limit.
No, there is an option on the Display that you can “Save printed files to the SD card”. This will save any print that the printer prints to the SD card and you can browse to it via the display at a later date and reprint it. You can also “Send” files to the SD card from Bambu Studio. This transfers the gcode but doesn’t start the print. The SD card is also used to download the log files for the printer.
I still cannot see that any files that I send to the printer are saved to the SD card. The option to cache to the sd card is checked but doesn’t do anything. There is no option in Studio to send directly to the sd card.
Thank you JonRaymond. I found it was not quite so simple. I’ll try to recall what I went through:
-check LAN only mode
-check DEV mode
-printer then seemed to disappear off my network. Kept asking for access code and IP and serial number. Still did not work.
-finally got the clue from online help that I needed to check Windows Firewall. I did not suspect this because I had successfully used the printer many times in its default configuration, and didn’t realize I had not given it permission on my own private network. So I check that box, and then I could once again see my machine on my network. And communication was then established and the file transferred without further hitches.