I also have a little warp on borders, but not enough to make the print fail, only the first layer is not perfect even if I can print a 200mmx200mm single layer at the center of the bed (object with only one layer of 0.28mm height), wich give a perfect thin plastic sheet.
Rhoo, no I don’t think “BambuMen” are sharks, they have make a step up in 3d printing world, they just cant be perfect for everything. For me this printer have be done by passionate guys, but even when passionated you always have to deal with cost, timing, etc…
LOL! Sorry, sometime I forget to add the /s ! I was being amusing not attacking them!! I’m a big fan of BL, they’re bloody Geniuses - with a capital G.
Idk man with all of this going on it definitely feels like they don’t give us access to the bed mesh data for a reason.
Respectfully, to me it feels like more of a cash grab than a passion project considering the founders all came from DJI with minimal to no experience in the additive manufacturing space.
“Good enough for most” is likely where they’ll settle just like DJIs products before they started their “professional” line of drones/tech
So maybe we’ll see an “X1C Pro” sometime in the future that costs more but is built better. I’d buy that 100%
I’m sorry you ran across this post before you even got your machine. Things are not as dire as you would get reading this whole thing.
The vast majority of people do not have a problem of any magnitude with their Bambu printers, bed or otherwise. They are wonderful machines.
Don’t borrow trouble worrying you will get a dud. Like any social site people who have a problem vocally exclaim it, while those that don’t are voiceless or just calm which attracts a lot less attention! Eh?
There is a problem with the beds on earlier shipped machines. BL is aware of it and taking many steps to fix it.
They are shipping machines with new bed (supposedly) so the likeliness of you getting a bad bed is small, and if you do, it’s likely to be a small problem easily handled by the Auto Bed Level system which works quite well overall.
Many don’t even know their bed has issues until they read something here! Then of course, they go ballistic …
The X1C and P1P are both still consumer or prosumer products. They are far away from products designed to meet industry standards for reliability. And they are also priced quite far away from those standards. Just look what an Ultimaker costs, which is also not an industry product, but just aimed at prosumers and print farms.
Like always in life, you seldom get more then what you pay for it.
Ummmm … I’ll respectfully disagree with this. DJI uses a lot of 3D additive processes in their design and production. I’d be willing to bet if you toured their offices you’d find 3D printers on a lot of desks in the design and prototype areas.
I severely doubt that BL’s founders just blithely said “Hey lets do something interesting and start a company in a field we know nothing about, won’t that be fun??”
I’ll agree with that 100%
I’d gladly pay $2000+ for a more “premium” Bambu too, for all we know a “Pro” line may already be a point of internal discussion
Guess it depends on how much of the market they want to snatch up haha
I’d love a Pro version too. I suspect they are investigating a Dual printhead version. Add some bigger beds (if they figure out how to make 'em LOL) and the world will beat their doors down. Even more!
Remember that you can buy at least 4 to 5 Bambulab X1 Carbon for the same price of a single Ultimaker S5 wich will may not give you a lot more than the Bambulab X1 Carbon…
EDIT: I dont own myself an Ultimaker S5, but I have seen videos reviews of affiliated companies and really they seems to have hard time and even dont believe, dont be conviced, dont have any entousiame when they try to present this printer novelties as novelties. it’s even almost embarrassing
I don’t doubt they had experience with 3D printers I should’ve been more clear I suppose as I meant they had minimal to no experience in operating a 3d printer manufacturing company which could be the reason for some of the “cheaper” design choices, which work but can lead to dealing with problems sooner, even on low-mid end machines you’ll find quieter/less likely to fail fans/stepper motors, flatter beds. Idk
They are KILLING the game for a company that came out of no-where.
Maybe I’m mistaken & the cheaper parts were all intentional to keep the printer at a certain price point.
Maybe I’m just salty cause we bought two X1CC, both had warped beds, support said they could not offer a replacement (we weren’t allowed wait for new flat beds like others have been) the only option given was to return them…which again I didn’t want to do, I just wanted a flat bed.
I think they did a pretty good job on their first product with “little to no experience.” Some features of the X1C are leaps and bounds better than what other companies offer. Some are not and need a lot more work.
Of course we will. And it will cost much more. The X1C wasn’t advertised as a pro level product. And in my opinion it’s not even a prosumer product. It’s a consumer product with a lot of nice features that needs more development, considerably on the software side. I don’t even want to think about what a pain in the ass it has to be to manage a farm of multiple X1Cs and/or P1Ps.
I think a lot of it is just growing pains of learning to manufacture at scale, which is compounded by the complexity of 3D printers.
I feel you, it’s a tough situation to be in. Did they say why they wouldn’t send new beds? Did you ask to have the ability to return later or something? Seems strange they wouldn’t send you replacements.
I have X1C, and it scans surface area where first layer will be printed with a lidar and I don’t see any first layer issues. However I do only functional prints and it was a big disappointment when I found out my 250mm wide 10 hour prints turned out heavily warped. I first blamed bed adhesion or that sides of magnetic build plate get lifted up as bed seemed to be flat. After a lot of time and 1.5kg of PETG filament wasted eventually found out that it warps only when hot.
I don’t think “BambuMen” are sharks, they have make a step up in 3d printing world, they just cant be perfect for everything. For me this printer have be done by passionate guys, but even when passionated you always have to deal with cost, timing, etc…
