It has come to my attention, that Bambu Studio is missing a certain very important function for RC (especially planes) makers. Or maybe not missing, but also not working in a way Cura does. Most of those models are made to be printed in a vase mode, and I just can’t get them to work on Bambu Studio. And now after buying a model for $50 it’s a bit of a bummer
Bambu’s vase won’t let me print wings with internal supports and structures (which I assume are just a single line thick 2D shapes). Setting slicing tolerance to 0.0, detecting thin wall and everything else that comes to my mind does not work, I still end up with empty shell with just slight remains of those structures growing few millimeters and disappearing. Fixing model only makes it worse.
Vase mode is not necessarily required if you are ok with a bit of stringing (and lw-asa doesn’t sting much anyway), but that doesn’t solve it either. The very thin features are just skipped no matter what I do.
In cura it’s the same unless you switch surface mode to surface (even in vase mode).
So if you, Dear Bambu Team, could make a setting for surface mode (if my assumption is correct), that would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully not only by me. After all on X1 I don’t really need to do it in vase mode, unlike on Ultimaker. Experienced first hand, stringing there without vase is unbearable. On X1 I didn’t manage to do anything in vase yet, and still have less stringing.
Or if anyone has a way around it and wants to share, that would be great too! I’ll even tell my kids to send you a Christmas card (once I have them :D)!
+1 for surface mode feature. Without it, I can’t print my RC planes with my Bambu Labs X1 carbon
Printing RC planes with such a high quality machine was one of my intents for purchasing the printer. Same for a friend of mine that also builds and flys RC planes.
If this feature is added, I’m sure multiple 3D printable RC plane companies would be willing to recommend and promote Bambu Labs to their customers.
The closest thing I found was repairing the model’s non-manifold nature, but this creates new issues by adding geometry that doesn’t work in the model design.
Check out the thread called: Bambu Lab X1-Carbon 3D Printer First Impressions & Print Log
on the rcgroups website. They talk about workarounds to the rib printing issues.
Bumping in search of a solution. There are some cura based work arounds but this is something I think Bambulabs could easily tackle and integrate into bambuslicer.
Not of great help, the problem is all the joints the slicer puts in the outer surface. It just won’t work. Cura will print the same file without causing the faults
If Bambu Lab want to add ‘surface mode’, they need to change the slice engine, which is libslic3r, as well as the curaengine in Cura. It’s a bit complex. Neither prusa and BamBu hasn’t throughly iterate the core engine recently.
