I honestly don’t think many people give two hoots about makerworld. It’s an unnecessary clone of printables, thingiverse etc. There’s never been a problem with good designers sharing good models, they don’t need incentives, they do it because they want to. If they don’t want to share or even design things then they don’t have to. If they want reward for their designs they can try to sell them and the market will decide whether it’s worth paying for. Honestly there’s so much 3D printed ■■■■ the world can do without. Look at the ‘exclusive’ category - hmm, cute wide eye cat model, skull keychain, french bulldog duck, t-rex, another dragon. Even the functional stuff - a bottle cap opener, floss stick box, bag clip; none of these are unique and there will be 20 different examples of each shared for free elsewhere.
What people really want are fast, reliable, high quality printers that don’t depend on the internet, a subscription or third-party cloud service to operate.
I think your reference to ‘the system’ is exactly the problem and the reason people have reacted so badly to recent events. It might ‘break the system’ if we allow filament other than Bambu filament to be used because someone’s articulated dragon might not print perfectly and they’ll rate the creator badly. Why don’t we only allow people to print models from markerworld, it would break the system if they are allowed to download their keychain widge from another site…
Try blocking internet to your printer. See how that goes.
Hint: sync will not work. Like at all. WIll reset the filament in ~5 seconds.
Conclusion: LAN mode only is a lie. The printer still sends and receives data from the “cloud”.
Tbh I don’t get the filament sync point here but maybe that’s on me. I use Orca Slicer and have my pressure advance set in the filament profile anyway. As I tell the slicer what filament to use, the slicer settings are getting used and I use the AMS settings on the printer only for color mapping. So nothing I miss in that regard I guess?
What I do miss is exclude object, which is at least currently not available on the A1 without Handy App, so no exclude object in LAN mode. However, there seems to be some work on the MQTT side to bring that back. The other thing is no browsing of the SDHC via Orca, which is also a completely made up constraint. Using a third party mobile App (Bambu Companion), I can browse the SDHC content and print directly from there. So I guess that’s coming to Orca also sooner or later.
For remote monitoring, I have my printers in HA anyway, so no loss here. My A1 is now really offline and besides the missing exclude object, which you have on the X1 afaik aft least over the screen, it’s still the, same if not better experience.
I switched the NBN box, no internet connection at all.
Creating custom filaments, sending print jobs works and yes AMS sync works fine as well.
If it does not for than it must be an X1 thing, my P1S on the 1.0.7 firmware runs fine without internet…
See Problems and solutions for Custom Filament | Bambu Lab Wiki
Even BL states it does not work.
“Currently, Studio and printer only support cloud mode for the newly created custom Filament feature.”
You synced your fillament to cloud 1st and you did not block internet to the printer.
Don’t think it matters which printer you have if we are talking about AMS.
LOL
What do want me to do, record a video of the lot with my phone?
Tryst who you like, all I am saying my P1S combo works just fine sitting just on Wifi and with no connection to the WWW possible.
If it does not work for you I have to assume you are on the 1.0.8 firmware using a X1…
And well, if I need to get files onto the SD or delete a bunch I use WinSPC and access my SD card just fine.
Not really worth it speed wise but it works…
Some days ago I’ve reset my P1P (FW 1.07.0) and reactivated in LAN-Only mode for testing. The Internet access for the printer is blocked too. I’m using OrcaSlicer, but for BambuStudio it should be the same… I’ve deleted all presets and former configurations, so that I start from the beginning. The Slicer is not logged in in Bambu Cloud. Until now, all is working fine, except the custom filaments. As the wiki article states, they needed to transfered to the printer by the cloud. But anyway, what advantage should this gives to you? The printer worked too before the custom filaments for the printer ware available. The only reason where these make really sense is printing by the Handy App via cloud slicing. But this doesn’t work in LAN-Only mode anyway. In LAN-Only mode the only Instance that have to know the custom filament is the Slicer (regardless if Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer).
It’s useful to have the custom filaments loaded in to the printer as it allows you to see and assign the calibrated K value to the filament. I know it’s possible to add this to the filament profile in the slicer (at least in ORCA) but I think for a lot of people the existing (cloud based) process works and it would be great to keep the same workflow while moving to LAN mode. One person preferring a different workflow doesn’t make the other an less valid.
That’s right. And I have only a P1P and a A1 mini, so I can’t speak about X1. At least if you’re using 3rd party tools - like Panda Touch or Home Assistant - custom filament doesn’t work. For me, it has never worked well. So I have decided to prefer using my Panda Touch with Generic Filament Profiles over Custom Filament Profiles.
By the way, you can save different K-values for any filament. I’m using this feature to save my K-values for different filaments on the Gerneric filament profile.
Yes it just means you have more noise as you have all of your K value profiles associated with a generic filament profile rather than filtering the ones only for the brand/variant of filament to which they apply. If you generally stick with a few filament variants/colours etc then I guess it’s fine.
Hello everyone, I found this thread and was surprised by OPs inability to sync custom filament profiles in LAN mode. I have been using my P1S almost exclusively in LAN mode since I got it, I only connected it to the cloud during initial setup (which I since learned that I didn’t need to do, since you can just setup your WiFi through a file on the root of the SD card) and to update the firmware from 01.05.02.00 to 01.07.00.00 (mainly for the direct IP connection and offline firmware update features).
I never had issues syncing custom filaments and K values on LAN mode. After reading JBFUK’s experience and indication that the custom filaments are not pushed to the printer, I had to try it out.
I physically disconnected the fiber optics cable from my router to make sure there was no chance of the printer connecting to the internet. Opened BambuStudio (v1.10.2.64) and created a custom filament with a custom vendor and changed some parameters. Connected to my LAN P1S and set that filament to a slot on the AMS, performed a Manual Calibration and stopped the print so I could just set K to a random value. Saved those settings to my printer and then turned the printer off and closed BambuStudio. Waited for about 1 min and turned my printer back on, opened BambuStudio and connected to the printer.
The printer remembered no only my custom vendor but also the K value withotu any issues. I did take a couple of settings for the information to update, but it was all there. So, I can corroborate user_3026326371’s experience. On the P1S with v01.07.00.00 syncing of custom filaments and K values works on the LAN mode in a completely offline environment.
So it’s just the X1 they have locked this function to Cloud only. How odd. I’ve had to avoid going to LAN only because of this issue, but I am now running X1+ and given there’s confirmation that I can continue to use new versions of BambuStudio without the new security firmware update - I guess I’ll stick with that for now.
On the other side I have also purchased a K2 Plus with CFS. First impressions are good, it’s fast, big build plate, quality as good as the X1C. I also find the CFS to be less hassle than the AMS with it being much more accommodating of 3rd Party spools. Only complaint is the weight of the thing but that’s not an issue once it’s in place. Oh and I really don’t like their slicer - Prefer Orca (and BBLStudio) but I guess eventually I’ll either learn to live with their slicer or get around to setting up the proper profiles on Orca.
Thanks for doing all this testing. I have an X1C and have the same concerns about everything going through the cloud. I’m going to look at X1+ for that reason.
