If your printer is set to lan mode, then studio sends the file to the sd card in the printer, once sliced. You cannot see the contents of the card with studio over lan, afaik, unless you use winscp or similar. Using winscp you can read/write directly to the card, without removing it from the printer.You can see the contents of the card from the panel on the printer,. or remove the card and read /write it directly on the pc.
Should be solved by now but the moving toolhead to the corner is the latest firmware update which is “AI clog detection” so it’s seeing if there’s a clog built up on the nozzle.
Thanks debonr
I finally got it printing, it’s printing now, so I’m afraid to touch it while it’s printing.
I don’t know how it’s sent it, can it be sent by Wi-Fi.
The reason I posted here, is they wouldn’t let me have my own post only replies.
Would I need a card reader for my desktop and would the file go from Bambu Studio direct to the SD card?
Thanks again
It’s sent by wifi, directly from studio, if set to lan mode. If not set to lan mode, it is sent to the bambu servers (cloud) and sent back down to the printer. A micro sd card to usb adapter will most likely be adequate, if you ever need to read/write the sd card directly plugged into your pc.
I agree. Bambu engineers do most things very well (some are pure genius) but considerably too many aspects of the printers, slicer, wiki, and overall user experience are half-baked. I could spend a week listing all of the needlessly exasperating problems I’ve experienced on my A1 and A1 Mini that I haven’t experienced any of my other nine printers. Bambu engineers have botched even the simplest things that other brands solved long ago, such as reliably feeding filament from the spool into the hotend. With my four Elegoo printers, I can start prints (even ones taking > 24 hours to complete) and return confident that everything went well.
With Bambu printers, it’s an entirely different story. I’ve had so many failure to feed filament errors on both printers that my blood pressure reflexively rises whenever I think of using a Bambu printer. They are not reliable; they are utterly exasperating.
So why all of the positive press about them? The 3-D printing industry is tarnished by shills paid to gloss over problems, or otherwise incentivized to do exactly that, such as by receiving free printers. However, when I search seeking solutions to Bambu problems and discover that many others also experience them, I wonder why Bambu engineers didn’t spot such problems in beta-testing and correct them before sullying their reputation with customers so they in desperation return to other manufacturers. Personally, I won’t buy another Bambu printer unless they publicly acknowledge some of their needless mistakes and pledge that they had been corrected. Our time is our most precious resource, and Bambu printers excel in wasting it.
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Well I may just be a down home country shill, but it seems to me that I like Bambu printers because they work well for me, and have mostly been without issue. Far exceeding the experiences I’ve had with other printers. Being 4 printers deep now, and and the issues have been far and wide between, and mostly caused by factors outside of the print itself.
Now I’m not a big city shrill like some, but to me the overall user experience has been anything but half baked. I’d venture to say I even rather like the wiki, and find it to have a wealth of information.
Now, I may be a simple shrill, but in my dealings across 4 printers I’ve not really had any issues with feeding filament to the hotend, and my shrill father has not experienced such issues either. Now, I said not really, because on the few times I’ve had issues like that it was caused by other factors that would have plagued any printer. Aka, it wasn’t the printer’s fault.
Now I’m not some highly educated shrill, but it’d seem to me that most people talk positively about them because most people have a pretty good experience.
Now, I’m not a demending shrill, but I’m still waiting for my free printers. So far I’ve had to earn mine through hard work, be it my day job, or through my own efforts in the 3d printer space.
Now, I must admit, I am a shrill with knowledge of development, beta-testing, and all that. I will say it’s difficult to account for every problem that one might come across, and there’s often times issues don’t rear their ugly head until the product goes live. The problems you’ve outlined though aren’t widespread, and most people really don’t have those sorts of issues. Now, I do feel for you, I do, because it’s not fun having problems, but across two printers with a series of issues that are uncommon amongst most users.
I may be just a simple country shrill, but I suspect there’s more to these issues than just the printer is badly designed.
Now, I’m a just humble shrill that loves an analogy, so here goes. This reminds me a lot of when my ex would yell at me to just admit that I was looking at some woman. If there was a narrator, he’d hopefully chime in right now to inform you, I wasn’t looking at any other woman.
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You unwittingly exemplified why comments about Bambu Lab are overly positive: because when users report legitimate problems (I could name many of them), fanboys come out of the woodwork to insinuate that the problem is not with the printer/slicer/wiki/etc. but rather with the user. So if I am responsible for some of the many exasperating things I’ve experienced with my A1 and A1 Mini, why have none of them ever occurred on my other nine printers? Logical people immediately understand that if I, in this case, were the problem, I would have comparable issues on my other printers, but I don’t. They have some flaws, but nothing in the league of what I have experienced with my Bambu printers. If these happened occasionally, I wouldn’t bother mentioning them, but when they botch one-third or more of the prints days in a row, followed by days of flawless printing, followed by days of botching half of the prints in a row (using the same filament, often from the same spool, by the way), followed by acceptable printing once more, intelligent people are bound to wonder why. Others will not.
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It is interesting how the cycle seems to repeat.
A certain type of person claims to have XX number of other printers that print “PERFECTLY” feel the need to;
- Claim to own a Bambu printer ( oddly often more than one ).
- Make a Bambu Community forum post claiming Bambu printers are poop compared to their other printers.
- In that post there is also normally a threat like “Bambu has to change this or else…”
- When presented with alternative perspectives their best response is try to discredit the person by calling them a fanboy.
- Don’t actually want to solve their so called “issues”.
It happens over and over again and they very rarely stray from this script.
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hmm
This is why my snarky response. You put up a built in excuse to wave away anything anyone else might say to counter your own. You’ve built a wall around your complaints so no one can take them away from you.
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Snarky, troll-like, utterly unhelpful. The point of the forum is ultimately to help people solve problems and incentivize Bambu via criticism to improve, such as fixing problems that plague countless users — not only me — and to better serve them, such as promptly responding to user messages instead of expecting them to wait weeks or more for responses, or months for replacement A1 printers secondary to a recall rooted in poor engineering.
What I can’t understand (and feel free to opine on this if you have anything helpful to add) is how engineers who do some things so brilliantly botch other things so horrendously. To analogize this, it is as if they hit many home runs but too often strike out playing T-ball. I understand occasional errors, but some aspects of my A1 and A1 Mini (yes, I actually own them, to answer the suspicion of another shill doing his best to deflect criticism) are obviously baked into the system with utterly illogical engineering.
So you bought a second one? A sensible person would have thrown in the towel and gotten rid of the “headache” because a smart person once said…
After reading the Bambu hype, I assumed the many problems I had with my A1 resulted from it being a lemon. I assumed that Bambu produces few lemons, so — encouraged by its superb print quality, better than any of my other printers — I ordered the A1 Mini and discovered that it was also plagued by some of the same problems. One of the most persistent was failure to reliably feed filament from the spool. I engineered a fix, and so far it appears to be working, but I will need weeks of printing to ascertain that.
However, users should not have to re-engineer products to make them work reliably. If you and the others who object to my criticism want to be very helpful, let’s bury the hatchet and address some of the problems I’ve experienced.
Speaking of that, after several weeks of trying, today is the first day I was able to post anything, but that was limited to replying to others; I still cannot introduce a new topic — a problem that plagues many others. Prior to today, I could never log into the forum but instead received one goofy system error after another. It’s not as if I am Web-inept because I use many other forums without any difficulty and can (and have) programmed interactive websites from scratch. But if Bambu can botch what others solved long ago, it seems to have a real flair for that.
It seems you have a problem with the a1 feeding your filament, and you can not create a topic for a discussion. You can search the forum and find many topics wrt feed problems, you could look at and add to one of those. I don’t think you can create a new topic until you’ve played around in the forum for a while.
Roughly how long is “a while”? Thanks for your input.
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Thank you for the input. After reading what you referenced, Discourse strikes me as a very poor choice. It reeks of being coded by control freaks who make users jump through hoop after hoop, with many utterly ridiculous. One of many examples: “To get to trust level 3, in the last 100 days…Must have visited at least 50% of days.” As if my life revolves around Discourse and this forum – sheesh!
Of course, this would be a moot point if Bambu had good support, but they don’t. I wonder if Bambu executives realize how the complaints about Bambu (on many other forums, not only here) repels potential customers. What I see (usually on other forums where criticism isn’t stifled) is users complaining about problems with others guessing about solutions but usually with no good ones.
Here’s one example: after weeks of searching, I haven’t yet found a way to turn off video recording (on the A1 and A1 Mini) when printing via the SD card. The printers always record, cluttering the SD card. Deleting those files in Windows 11 usually takes a few seconds but roughly 15% of the time hangs up, either not deleting the files or taking a minute or so to do it, or requiring multiple attempts – something I haven’t experienced with any of the dozens of other computers I’ve used intensively since the 1980s. But true to form for Bambu, they don’t make things easy. There should be a simple, easily accessible setting to enable or disable video recording ONCE – but they don’t.
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I’d recommend Wisconsin cheese, it goes great with any whine.
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How about solutions to some of my problems rather than complaining about my complaining? Can we get back on track here?
The problem is your attitude. Why would someone go out of their way to help a person who constantly complains? You’ve written essays about how terrible Bambu is. Your seemly first legitimate complaint is that you can’t figure out how to turn the camera off via the SD card. The majority of users don’t print from the SD card. There are ways to disable it from both the app and Bambu Studio. There is possibly a way to turn it off via gcode but honestly I can’t be bothered wasting my time helping someone so negative. There are lots of other people who are appreciative of help that I could be spending that time on.
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Let’s bury the hatchet and start fresh. Please explain how I can disable video recording when printing via the SD card – necessary in my case. Please!