What I realized from my first few months with a Bambu Lab A1 3D printer, half 1

Bambu Studio is not essentially the most approachable utility, however in the event you’ve made it this far, it should not be completely past your comprehension. For first-time setup, you will select your mannequin of printer (all Bambu fashions and a wholesome number of third-party printers are formally supported), depart the filament settings as they’re, and sign up if you wish to use Bambu’s cloud companies. These sync printer settings and maintain monitor of the fashions you save and obtain from MakerWorld, however a non-cloud LAN mode is obtainable for the Bambu skeptics and privacy-conscious.

For any beginner, fairly a lot all you could do is join your printer, open a .3MF or .STL file you have downloaded from MakerWorld or elsewhere, choose your filament from the drop-down menu, click on “slice plate,” after which click on “print.” Issues just like the default 0.4 mm nozzle measurement and Bambu’s included Textured PEI Construct Plate are typically already factored in, although chances are you’ll have to double-check these picks while you open a file for the primary time.

While you slice your construct plate for the primary time, the app will spit a pile of numbers again at you. There are two essential ones for 3D printing neophytes to trace. One is the “whole filament” determine, which tells you what number of grams of filament the printer will use to make your mannequin (filament usually is available in 1 kg spools, and the printer typically will not monitor utilization for you, so if you wish to keep away from operating out in the midst of the job, chances are you’ll need to maintain monitor of what you are utilizing). The second is the “whole time” determine, which tells you ways lengthy all the print will take from the primary calibration steps to the tip of the job.

Choosing your filament and/or temperature presets. When you have the Computerized Materials System (AMS), that is additionally the place you will handle multicolor printing.

Andrew Cunningham

Choosing your filament and/or temperature presets. When you have the Computerized Materials System (AMS), that is additionally the place you will handle multicolor printing.

Andrew Cunningham

The principle strategy to tweak print high quality is to regulate the peak of the layers that the A1 lays down.

Andrew Cunningham

The principle strategy to tweak print high quality is to regulate the peak of the layers that the A1 lays down.

Andrew Cunningham

Including some extra infill can add some energy to prints, although 15 p.c often offers a good quantity of energy with out overusing filament.

Andrew Cunningham

Including some extra infill can add some energy to prints, although 15 p.c often offers a good quantity of energy with out overusing filament.

Andrew Cunningham

The principle strategy to tweak print high quality is to regulate the peak of the layers that the A1 lays down.

Andrew Cunningham

Including some extra infill can add some energy to prints, although 15 p.c often offers a good quantity of energy with out overusing filament.

Andrew Cunningham

For some prints, scaling them up or down a bit could make them suit your wants higher.

Andrew Cunningham

For objects which might be sufficiently small, you’ll be able to print just a few without delay utilizing the clone perform. For filaments with a gradient, this additionally makes the gradient impact extra pronounced.

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Bambu Studio estimates the quantity of filament you will use and the period of time a print will take. Filament often is available in 1 kg spools.

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When choosing filament, individuals who stick with Bambu’s first-party spools may have the best time, since optimum settings are already programmed into the app. However I’ve had virtually zero hassle with the “generic” presets and the spools of generic Inland-branded filament I’ve purchased from our native Micro Heart, a minimum of when sticking to PLA (polylactic acid, the most typical and usually the easiest-to-print of the totally different sorts of filament you should purchase). However we’ll dive deeper into plastics partially 2 of this sequence.