I am fairly new to 3d printing, about 6 months with my A1. The A1 has spoiled me since I rarely have any issues with print Quality and now with a new printer I am trying to find out why I have defects when my prints get to a certain height. I hate wasting filament and since this print uses 500g+ I wanted to see if there were other things I can try before I reprint it. This is a new P1S, within the last month. Newest 1.07 firmware installed. I did not update to the new Bambu Studio. Printed with front door open.
Model is:
Deforms toward the top on the left side of the printer.
I usually go with the calibration routines and temperatures.
More often than not they are involved when prints fail.
But there is now just too many people, mainly p!(s) users who get exactly your problem.
Prints just fine and all looks perfect until you want to print big.
Here is some of things I picked up from other affected users.
If some of it does not seem to make sense than that’s ok because some really make no sense >
Fully calibrate filament, near new printer but something tall enough keeps failing AT THE SAME SPOT again and again…
Models that printed just fine in the past suddenly refuse to come out in an acceptable quality.
Very complex and large models print just fine until they fail near the last 50 or so layers where the print no longer has any areas of complexity, just slightly sloped or curved areas.
Models a user downloaded keep failing for no explainable reason - BUT if only the geometry is imported the odel slices and prints fine.
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I could go on for a bit longer but you probably get the idea…
All those users share something vital - the 1.0.7 firmware…
Thing is that these sudden issues so many are facing happened in the past as well, just not in such large numbers.
The fix for them was the same that seems to work today as well with the new firmware.
Not all users though reported a success, so take it with a grain of salt…
Export what you need, like custom filaments and print profiles.
Uninstall Studio, clean out the leftover folders and then perform a registry cleanup, like by using the free tool from Wise.
Log the printer out of your account and your Wifi.
Start over as per Bambu directions, meaning let Handy find it and get into the Wifi, then install Studio, log into your account and let Studio find the printer.
Bambu, so far, was unable to provide an installer able to properly deal with customisation.
More often than not things end broken and users think it is a problem on their end or with their models/slicer settings.
Similar story for updating the firmware and NOT calibrating the printer.
Sometimes things change and old compensation values no longer work properly…
If after all this things still refuse to work out there might be a bigger issue…
Youre probably right. The parts of the model that are bad are areas where the machine had enough space to accelerate to top speed. To me this means it is speed related. Not even looking at the top portion. I would run the max flow cal in orca and set my speed at 3/4 of whatever flow rate you get from the calibration. Ive found that the orca cal results work great in bambu studio too
