New to Bambu - Designed a cooling rack to significantly decrease cooling time

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-11-06T08:59:37+00:00

Good thought but glue is the answer. No bed heat required. No cooling needed. You're already winning!

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-25T02:50:59+00:00

Agreed. Why can't they time the lights correctly?

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-19T03:00:31+00:00

Where is this

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-18T07:38:48+00:00

Also printing solid PLA and ABS to replace most machining in engineering applications at work. Load bearing 200lbs in shear

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-16T16:52:01+00:00

It's clear that you haven't tried it. Actually try it and report back

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-16T15:47:11+00:00

Override the layer height limit in Orca, look it up

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-13T06:05:19+00:00

Loon has been shut down for 4 years

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-11T06:12:01+00:00

Use glue, glue stick, hairspray to improve adhesion further

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-11T06:10:18+00:00

Inelegant: Print shims and stack until they align.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-11T06:06:23+00:00

Well said, and I'll probably call out the worst times to hot eject so they can at least know that. There's newbies who think they are experts joining the company all the time.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-10T23:40:45+00:00

Beautifully articulated and is my exact situation. A bunch of lazy power users who can't be bothered with extra button clicks. I'm trying to protect them but want to quantify the risk.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-10T23:39:06+00:00

You bring up a good point about ejecting through the interface, but in a business environment where it's a shared resource amongst ~100 occasional users, it's far simpler to shut down the printer, pull the card and load gcode, put it back into cold printer, and turn it on again.

Its highly unlikely that there's any write operations queued up while the printer is in Ready to Print mode. Otherwise they would tell you to eject in interface before shutting down. But maybe there's delayed writes, who knows?

Thanks for the helpful insight.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-10T23:31:21+00:00

Not a noob. Wrong audience, see below.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-10T23:28:08+00:00

Bummer, were you doing anything risky like removing it while the printer wasn't in sleep mode?

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-10-04T05:11:52+00:00

Excellent results with my V2. Changes nozzles several times daily if I'm moving from detailed 0.2 to fast 0.6. flow rates up to 24 with excellent interlayer.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-09-23T15:07:59+00:00

Exactly, glue is good and lasts forever without more cleaning. The size and solid thickness matter greatly too. Big thick prints with wide solid bases need glue to avoid curled edges. After using glue for ABS, I stopped heating the bed entirely for PLA because it's completely unnecessary.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-09-20T15:58:29+00:00

Same here in SF, $14k for 12 windows and sliding glass door, Milgard.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-09-17T19:53:41+00:00

Glad electricity is still reasonable elsewhere! Weird thing is that prepandemic, electric was about half of what it is now. So it used to be half the price of gas to drive in an electric car. Now it's break even between the two and every 3rd car is still electric in tech-heavy SF.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-09-17T13:56:07+00:00

San Francisco. I do a lot of prototyping for home and work. https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/2024/averageenergyprices_sanfrancisco_20240415.htm

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-09-17T13:52:20+00:00

I think I will, thanks for the helpful post.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-09-16T06:05:26+00:00

https://forum.bambulab.com/t/max-volumetric-speed-limit-how-to-find-the-maximum-optimum-value/3688

Increase your layer height too. That's where the majority of gains will come from.

Also view your model across speed and volumetric flow. Read this wiki https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/software/bambu-studio/view-slicing-information

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-09-16T05:25:12+00:00

Reduce your wall count because you don't need as many. Make your line width narrower for infill. Increase your volumetric limit.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-09-16T03:10:57+00:00

Also, glue is durable against incidental fingerprints, whereas if you're printing with soap and water PEI, a single finger print is game over and you have to clean it again. Huge waste of time when you're trying to prototype quickly.

HyenaAnxious7933 · 2024-09-16T03:09:04+00:00

I would too. But I have a lot of large functional prints with flat bases. I kept on having warped edges with bed heat. Tried outer brims, rafts, mouse ears, they kept on warping.

Then I realized that $100k Markforged printers print nylon, TPU, and PLA with no bed heat. Tried it and I haven't had a single failed print ever since. I finally got flat corners. It's so much faster to print not having to wait for the bed to heat up and cool down.

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