I hope this has been mentioned before and I’m not the only one.
I have 3 printers and print the same products across all 3. It is one .3mf file with about 14 plates. When I get ready to print a product, I go to the Device tab and select the printer, confirm the AMS entries, then click on the Prepare tab, where I have to re-select the same printer I was just on. Then, I have to sync the AMS entries, choosing remap or overwrite. Then I can proceed to slice/print.
Why cant the Prepare tab just notice what the currently selected printer is from the Device tab and auto-sync the AMS entries?
Are there any workarounds to improve the efficiency? It’s so much clicking and prone for errors.
Workarounds? Yeah — the only workaround is to lower your expectations.
In all fairness, Bambu Labs crushed it making printers that “just work” out of the box. But software? Forget it. Nobody in the 3D printing world gives a damn about polishing the user experience. It’s the same dumpster fire you get with office printers — ever try using an Brother printer driver without wanting to smash your PC?
Slicers are no different. Real innovation at the GUI? Doesn’t exist. Bambu tossed some new paint on the walls and called it progress, but by six months into the P1P, it was crystal clear: the goal wasn’t usability — it was shoving MakerWorld ads down our throats, and you can’t even turn them off unless you ditch their software and use Orca which conveniently Bambu is now making inoperative via their new “Bambu Connect”. Hmmm…
You think Bambu’s gonna fix it for free out of the goodness of their hearts? Not in this lifetime, they whole embrace the “Chabuduo” (差不多) way, cut corners wherever possible and screw the user when push comes to shove. If fixing it doesn’t sell more printers or filament, they don’t care. We’re all S.O.L. Welcome to our world.
Remember, we don’t pay for Bambu Studio. So guess what — they have zero incentive to make it suck less. Unless fixing it magically sells more printers or burns through more filament, they couldn’t care less. That’s the game. And like anything that is “free” you’re not a customer, you’re the product. What do you think they do with all that “telemetry” they gather? Make the product better? Well if that were the case, I figure at this point they’ve gathered enough telemetry to find the cure for cancer.
