The wording of the various plate options is really confusing. I tried to summarize the options.
There are the following plates:
-engineering plate (Flex plate)
-textured plate
Both sides are identical.
Then there are the following sheets:
-cool sheet
-hight temperature sheet
The sheets can be applied to the engineering plate.
So you can print on:
Cool Sheet
High temperature Sheet
Engineering plate (no sheet)
textured plate (no sheet)
Is this correct?
To have all options, one would need to order a textured plated, an engineering plate and a high temperature sheet, correct? Those are the single parts needed, which are sold in various bundles.
I would appreciate if someone could confirm or explain what I missed.
Whats missing is 1 table to summarize all. My summary is based on the information available in the Bambulab Shop, but I might have missed something or it is not really clear.
I will get my X1CC probably next week and I wanted to order additional plates. It turns out, it’s not too easy. First, you have to find out what to order. Second, some plates are out of stock.
Changing a sticker on a Prusa is a total nightmare, and so I assume (?) the same is true for the Bambulab. For the money, I would forget about getting more stickers and perhaps get more plates instead.
Yeah, when I look at the available plates, I don’t see that buying a standalone engineering plate (one with no stickers already attached on at least one side of it) is even an option: Shop Build Plates and Parts at Bambu Lab US | Bambu Lab US
My understanding is that there is NO Cool Plate. It is a Plate with a Cool Sheet on it. If you take the same Plate and add a Hot Sheet it is for different materials.
EDIT, I stand corrected, just as I thought after 3 months of trying to get me head around the confusion of Sheets/Plates and Plates/Sheets, Bambu go and add a Cool Plate…lol
Right from day one the X1 X1C and X1CC shipped with a plate that had a cool plate one side which is a replaceable sticker and an engineering plate the other side. If you want to buy another one of these it is called “bambu cool plate” You can print almost anything on those but you require glue stick for things like Pla and PETG as a release agent. You can also buy a high temp plate which has the same engineering plate on one side but also a high temp sticker on the other side instead of the cool plate sticker. This is called “bambu high temp plate (PEI)” and the high temp side can print pretty much any material. As both the cool sides and high temp sides are sticker they can be pealed off when damaged and replaced to save cost and throwing the plate in the bin. Then the third option for plates is textured PEI which is on both sides a textured PEI surface. This can also be used for almost any material but does have a textured finish which is transferred onto your print so keep that in mind however it means no glue stick for PLA and PETG which is great.
Those are the three plates which in turn give you 5 different print surfaces. If you click on each you will see a table showing which can be used for what material and what they recommend for glue stick, door and lid position as well as bed temp but that is also chosen by default hen you select it in the slicer.
I would highly recommend you have a look at each plate and decide what you want to print then buy the accompanying plate. I personally have all 3 plates as they have their pros and cons but my most commonly used is the Textured PEI as I hate glue stick and mainly print PLA and PETG.
How easy is that to do with the Bambu stickers? i ask because iIt was damn near impossible on the Prusa stickers, where I tried it once but had to resort to toxic chemicals to get it all completely off.
Pretty easy in my experience - I just received mine this week, and while I should have done more reading beforehand, the documentation included in the package (setup booklet, sticker on cool plate side) indicated I only needed to worry about glue stick for the FIRST print… I found this to not be the case the hard way. I bit the bullet and swapped one out yesterday, and much to my surprise it was MUCH easier than, say, putting on a phone screen protector. There is a large “bubble squeegee” type thing in the included prints on the X1C, I made sure to have that handy before replacing to ensure everything went down flat.
Very easy, I have only had to do one so far and that was due to my own mistakes from using the metal scraper on it and I had shaved some bits off it in a few areas after a few months of printing. It peaked off very easily once started and didn’t leave any residue. Then putting the new one on was as easy as a phone screen protector. Just have a squeegee or credit card to push all the air bubbles out. It has a protective layer on it so you won’t scratch it then once done remove the clear outer film and your good to keep printing.
It is quite confusing. I believe there are really only TWO physical magnetic plates. The “Engineering” plate is just a gray enamel looking metal plate, and a double-sided PEI plate, which is similar to a Prusa textured plate. The Engineering plate can have a Cool plate sticker or a High-temp plate sticker added to either side. So what is included with the X1 Carbon is the Engineering plate with a Cool plate sticker on one side.
Unfortunately the extras that Bambu Labs sell is just a hodgepodge. You may want to get an other Engineering plate and a High-temp plate sticker to add to it. Then you have one High-temp, one Cold, and Engineering on the other sides.
Some have heard that the textured PEI plate doesn’t work with the X1 Lidar, others say it works.
If you go through all the docs, you will see the following plates work with the following materials:
PLA: PEI, Cool, High-Temp
ABS: PEI, High-temp, Engineering
PETG: PEI, High-temp,Engineering
TPU: All plates
ASA: PEI, High-temp
PC: PEI, High-temp, Engineering
PA (Nylon): PEI, High-temp, Engineering
How they came up with these combinations, I do not know.
Taking the stickers off the engineering plate is not hard, but they are destroyed after removal. There is a guide you can print to make aligning stickers with the plate easier.