Today my first attempt to print bambulab polycarbonate and this is the result. Never happened in 1 years and 1200 hours of printing. I used this plate so much and before this print it was like a new one……u can say to me sometimes the lidar black on black fails but is black on grey!! Now I can’t use anymore because it has ruined the surface and the pattern. The worst part is I can’t buy it anymore…
I’m not sure I’m following. The lidar and bed leveling are two different things. I don’t know how a lidar fail would affect bed leveling.
To be honest I don’t think the damage on that is all that horrible.
That’s nothing compare to the very first ABS print of the X1C at my previous work place: The coating at four corners of the print completed peeled off leaving bare metal surface, just like paint job flakes off when repaint your car but didn’t clean the surface.
I wonder why I can’t find “engineering plate” on BBL store anymore.
In my opinion, you can still use the build plate just fine and the damage is not too bad. It seems that the bed leveling did not go quite right as far as it was on. The building plates are consumables. So once in a while you will have to replace it.
If the lidar has do his job this damage wouldnt happend, i think. This is what i want to mean. Maybe u are right and its a bed leveling issue. My complain is why they remove their best plate and add a really consumable plate like the smooth pei? Because they want to sell u the sheet i presume.
U are right, i just hate my self to havent checked the first layer, i was just furious because overall this plate has an infinite duration, if this type of things wouldnt happend.
If i can buy another enginnering plate i wouldnt create this threads, i cant replace that plate. They remove it from the store for sell to us a really consumable plate like the smooth pei. And isnt the same things, this plate has a “textured” surface the smooth pei no.
Where is infinite lifetime from? (engineering plate ≠ consumable plate)
From what I can tell, you can use a (PEI) plate forever, as long as you don’t:
Is this different for the engineering plate?
I had the same experience with PC and PA6 but with much more significant part imprints left on the Engineering plate. Still working fine though. Annoying, but currently not a show stopper for me.
I get the frustration. I do.
I’ve seen the plate elsewhere, maybe AliExpress. You may look and snag a backup.
I have a rule in this house, backups for backups. I hope you find one. If I come across one I’ll post it.
Lidar is used to set the flow for extruding filament, checking the bed plate qr code and inspecting the first layer. Over or under extruding filament won’t damage a plate. Generally only a nozzle too close will damage a plate if the correct filament is used for the plate.
Have you checked out the new plate?
