The problem here is the changing of the selected printer.
It using the creators print settings is totally fine (and preferable, IMHO), but it shouldn’t change the selected printer. There is no need for that to happen at all, and it creates annoying busy work for the user.
It should go like this:
The selected printer should not change. This really needs fixing Bambu. Please.
It should go like this:
- Bambu studio opens with the selected model
- creators print settings are applied
- the end
The printer selected IS the creators print settings.
Selected printers are an important part of a profile, nothing to do with what printers you own or which one you last used. The printer the user selects is in the dialogue that pops up when you press “print”, not in the prepare tab.
Imagine I tailor my profile for a coreXY printer, I speed up print speeds, I orient however I please, I don’t add brims to tall parts. These settings work fine for a coreXY printer, but may cause issues on a bedslinger as they may require slower speeds, brims, careful orientation of parts. I could release a separate profile with settings specific to bed slingers. Those are my recommended settings for those specific printers.
This is why the profile includes a pre-selected printer AND settings, they are a package.
If you want to print a profile on another printer you can transfer settings, but that’s on you to decide which settings are required.
This is not the behavior I’m experiencing personally. Here’s an example of what happens on my end, with a P1S:
If this isn’t buggy behavior, I don’t know what is.
No, that’s the exact behaviour @nadnerb33 described. What you’re seeing is a pre-selected printed AND settings the designer chose to make.
All you have to do is to choose your printer and use settings profile creator used - the relevant (customized) settings will transfer over while default ones for the printer you chose be used.
As a developer I can honestly say: that’s not a bug, that’s a feature 
It’s absolutely absurd that I have to deal with software that wont prioritize the hardware within my OWN profile. What’s the point of even clicking my printers model in the catalog only for it to default to a printer I’ve deselected from my profile.
This is not a feature. It’s not a bug. It really seems lazy and unintuitive. Asking what settings I want to use after already selecting the profiles that apply to my hardware is a hassle. I’m not sure which modified settings are created by the print profile, or the differences between my printer or the A1 printer I don’t even own. I shouldn’t have to re-select MY printer (with the exception of which nozzle I have installed) after already choosing MY printer when I downloaded the model.
Absurd.
The printer selection on Makerworld is only used when printing from Handy. That printer will be used to slice the project in the Bambu cloud and sent directly to your printer. The slicer settings on your computer are not involved at all.
If you choose to download the 3MF, you are getting the exact settings used by the project creator for a “perfect” print. The 3MF is not modified by Bambu to match your printer. It is up to you to decide if they are appropriate settings for your printer and filament, and change those that are not.
I prefer to find models on Printables or Thingiverse before MW. If MW is my only choice, I just get the STL/CAD file and use my own settings.
When will this be fixed? I just bought a1 and this makes my printing experience far from what internet seemed to say about how intuitive it is.
Software should make it difficult to make mistakes and this seems like book example of what not to do
No it does things correctly. If you try to print with non-A1 profile on A1 it won’t allow it, you’ll then have to choose the actual printer you have.
I wonder in how many ways one can say: “it’s not a bug, it’s just the way the profile creator set up the print profile” before people understand that they have to do 2 clicks to change to their printer…
I 100% agree not a bug, but to be fair the UI could be better.
When a user wants to open the project in Bambu Studio, why not offer 2 buttons.
“Open in Bambu Studio (with designers settings)” and
“Open in Bambu Studio (keeping your settings)”.
I know this can be accomplished by loading the STL / CAD file, but this clearly confuses new users.
Maybe there should be a preferences option in Bambu Studio that sets the default “use designers profile - 3MF” / “use local profile”.
The problem with having new users run their own profiles is that the designer has even less influence over the final print.
I suppose the user would need a warning that the designer can only diagnose their own profile.
Oh no, that would be worse. Just imagine that loading user’s profile instead of designer would nuke even simple things like fuzzy skin, let alone painting the model or some more advanced things like deliberately removing top&bottom layers in order to use infill as a vent generator for things like AeonJoey’s spillproof AMS dessicant storage.
However indeed UI could be better
I agree it would be worse, but it would at least mean there would be a big red flashing screen saying
“YOU ARE ON YOU OWN ON THIS ONE BUDDY”
Well, if you need hand holding then Handy’s there for you.
Studio is “you’re a big boy now!”
People don’t understand that in the dark times before there was only “here’s the stl” and if model designer was feeling generous they could offer some very basic “here’s my settings” otherwise you needed to figure them out yourself.
To imagine that having to select your printer and click “use modified settings” is a bug is almost incomprehensible to me. Sure - the ui could be a bit better, but that is not a bug.
I actually avoided the rabbit hole of 3D printing for many years, I couldn’t justify the amount of time that “getting things right” would take.
Now that printers are close to being appliances, I can happily integrate 3D printing into my business. Not a 3D printing related business.
Exactly what I wrote. Open in Bambu means open STL CAD in Bambu studio. If i want profiles with i can load print profile …
And even here when opening a print profile made on A1 and is going to be open on P1 or X1 there could be some message advising user there wil be some changes…
TBH a lot of new users don’t really understand what is happening, if you don’t know what a profile is, how are you expected to understand what it will do if you load it.
Clearly the UI needs a rethink
Just imagine if you apply the same reasoning for printing paper.
Majority of people just want to print stuff. And software should allow it (when possible).
Just map setting from one printer to another and warn if something is not transferable. Adding random printers I don’t own is very bad UX.
LOL, printing is a PART of my business, everything from labels to magazines, to large format, to commercial signage and everything in between.
Don’t get me started on RGB, CMYK and colour matching, or for that matter vector and raster files !!!
You know that this statement alone would trigger anybody who dabbled in printing that was a bit more colorful? Like - printing photography? Compared to that hell Bambu Studio is very nice and straightforward with everything and everybody is glad for not having to buy very expensive equipment and additional software 
It was sort of my point here. As Rmedias mentioned, paper printing is inherently complex, yet when someone purchases a consumer-level printer, they simply ‘just print.’ I realize it only takes two clicks, but for users like me, it’s still a chore and quite confusing.
I want want to browse makersworld and I can clearly see ‘a1’ on the interface above print button it makes no sense to add some random printer to my bambu studio.
If we want to be explicit to avoid liablity a wizard should launch and guide me (once!) if im I want to map setting to printer I own
The only reason why people “just print” on consumer-level printers is because the paper size is quite standard. Imagine if you had A5 sheets loaded and wanted to print A4-sized document - you’d have to either re-format whole document to A5 size or have in the print window select “A5” as the size (which is similar to selecting your own printer in the Studio) and adjust settings so that the A4-sized document fits on A5 sized paper.
I remember having to re-format Letter-sized document to A4… And that made me hate Microsoft Office with passion to this day.