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Printer: X1C
Filament: Bambu PLA
Print Time: Roughly 2 days or so.
Plate: Cold Plate
Nozzle: 0.4mm
Layer Height: 0.08
Infill: 15-20%
First FDM project I’ve undertaken, I also don’t know how to paint so this has been a good learning process to take away from.
I have more parts for half an additional Mando’ for more practice to learn different techniques.
I’m also planning on printing the speederbike that artist also modeled to fit together as a diorama, next month or so as budget eases.
I have a fair bit of experience in SLA printing but I was lured into the concept of the X1C over the months of watching the kickstarter and finally hit the order button this month.
The ugly:
I had a hell of time with organic supports and the X1C on this 10" model.
I went through a spool of silver PLA for this model (and the spare parts), with the filament spool being poorly manufactured to the point it jammed over three times in one single print.
The rest of the issues reside in using the auto slice settings for the supports and using the Organic(strong/Hybrid etc) setting.
The trees do not have substantial surface area for bed adhesion and the speed of the printer plus your infill methods equates to erratic model vibrations, to the point it’s clear they are causing lots of miniscule collisions and otherwise generating a poor condition for printing.
The trees also generate randomly in the brim of the main model, naturally. But this generation can oftentimes cutoff the brim from generating further into a fan angle the brim obstructs, from the concentric point outwards of the model core.
I went through that entire spool and it’s miss-manufacturing with the intent on doing as many controlled experiments as possible while still trying to maintain successful prints.
My conclusion, with standard FDM printing:
upwards of 90% of my errors were within the first 25 layers of printing, the rest were from poor support placement, discounting the filament getting pulled tight into a knot on multiple occasions, causing stress marks/abrasion dust all over the spool.
No thanks to the AMS cyclically repeating the same function expecting different results as I am literally there watching it and can’t do anything to stop the process. Multiple knots.
I ended up yanking the filament out while it was retracting the last time, I was done with that nonsense.
If you’ve read this far, thanks for listening.
The general applied solution to this entire bed adhesion problem is to, slow the printer down, study the supports well especially for Organic type, and increase your brim. First layer is often the most critical moment, I went to extremes to ensure first layer success by slowing the print and travel speeds to even as low as 10mm/s. This may sound extreme, but I’d rather wait an extra 1-2% time than have to reprint and waste material.
If Bambu is listening, we need an option to cancel AMS jam cycle so you can manually handle the situation if you happen to be there please. It would also behoove you to please take a look at automatic support generation (Organic). The supports defaults are what I would consider lackluster and prone to failures. It would also be keen to allow us to adjust the brim diameter of the organic tree supports, for a small single support scenario that setting is a must and paramount to a good foundation.
Thank you anyone for taking the time to read my post
Also, I love my Bambu!
I suggested that I think I need another 998 to take over the world 
