So I just now received the new Wham Bam Carbon Fiber build plate for Bambu Lab printers, and am reading over the detailed requirements with zero instructions whatsoever (good god Wham Bam doubleyou-tee-eff!) So I’m compiling my findings here for the community to use, correct, and improve:
Printer Profile: The Wham Bam Carbon Fiber build plate needs to ‘heat soak’ for 5 minutes before printing, you can automate this by inserting a line of G-Code into a modified printer profile you’ll select from Bambu Studio when using the build plate (note: this makes the build plate basically incompatible with Bambu Handy since you cannot change printer profiles from mobile)
We’ll need to add a line to ‘Machine Start G-code’
- Click the edit icon to the right of your Printer name under ‘Printer’
- Click inside the 'Machine Start G-Code section
- Scroll down to ;===== heatbed preheat ====================
- Add the following line after M190:
G4 P600000 ; pause for 300,000 milliseconds. - Click the save icon and give the new profile a name
We’ll also need to create custom Filament Profiles for each filament we want to use with the plate:
- Select a filament from the list Click the edit button to the right of the filament name
- Refer to the chart that accompanied the plate, or download from here: (Wham Bam Does not publish this chart that comes on a printed sheet anywhere on their website, ubsurd!, here’s a pic of it below)
- In this example, we’ll set up Bambu Lab PETG-HF for the plate using the settings from the chart, see screenshots below for the orange items to change.
- Save the filament profile with a new name (e.g. PETG-HF Carbon Fiber)
Go print!
epilogue: I don’t know why I’m giving Wham Bam another chance here, their customer service and documentation is abysmal, half of the links on their own site don’t work, and the bambu lab section of their support is so out dated it references the kickstarter of the X1C as ‘new’. Nevertheless, I want to test all of the mods and options for our Bambu Lab printers, and this is one of them.
