Seeking Advice on Printing Glass-Like Transparent Filament

Bambu Lab H2 Series
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With so many experiment-hungry H2D owners, has anyone tried printing with transparent filament to achieve a truly glass-like finish? If so, what slicer settings did you use and which filament brand or type did you choose?

I’ll be experimenting on my X1 Carbon while I wait for my H2D to arrive, and I plan to test printing with PC Clear from Bambu Lab.

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PETG is probably best bet for glass like clarity, take a look here:

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I’ve achieved very good results using PETG, but I’m curious if anyone has tried this with other materials or on the H2D.

Thanks for sharing the link—I’d misplaced it and only had the settings saved.

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I have not tried to go for the clear look just because of the time of printing and extra filament used.

I have printed with lots of transparent PETG filament from GratKit (At least 14 rolls but you have to make an adapter to work with the reusable spools and you must transfer from the cardboard spool. You will find that the end is locked into the hub and will not free itself.). It is cheap and once you get the settings correct, it prints perfectly.

I have heard that printing with the sparse infill set to “3D Honeycomb” gives a strong print with an interesting look. I have not tried it yet.

When printing the walls, it is very transparent. Usually I am printing with my X1C and have no problems but with my H2D I had AI telling me there was a print problem every layer after the fifth layer (5 walls). It could not be specific on the error some of the times and simply said “Print head is not functioning properly” (or something like that). Other times it actually said it was “air printing” which there was no signs of it as it would resume and immediately be laying filament down.

I downgraded AI’s monitoring of the print from “Medium” to “Low” and it still kept throwing the errors. I finally turned off the AI monitoring all together and the print has been going now for 14 solid hours without another hiccup or error.

And, I noticed that Bambu Labs does not offer a transparent PETG filament. They have a clear “translucent” and recommend “polishing” it after printing to “improve transparency.”

Conclusion: Don’t use AI monitoring if printing with clear transparent filament with the H2D. If your settings and filament normally give good results with X1C, it will give good results without the monitoring on the H2D.

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The AI was quite unstable on the X1 Carbon initially—thanks for the heads-up.

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