Recently, I have printed several plates, each containing several objects each of different heights. How does the printer manage to print these objects that are small, without running into taller objects? Some sort of FM?
If you are printing by layer, then they all print fine as the identical vertical position of each of the objects on the plate are printed at the same point in time.
If one object is 5cm tall, another 8cm tall and the last one 15cm tall, all three are printed one layer at a time. The first layer (think slice), likely 0.2mm of each model is printed, it then moves vertically 0.2mm up and prints the next slice, it keeps going until the last layer of the tallest object.
If you are printing by object, then Bambu Studio (the slicer) will position all objects sufficiently far enough apart that the print head can move around all objects without knocking into a model not currently being printed.
The first object is printed, the print head moves away, lowers back to the built plate and begins moving up the height on the next object.
Bambu studio knows the dimensions of the print head and those of the models and simply moves things so nothing makes contact that shouldn’t.
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You explain it so well! Thanks for the info.
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