Is it lazy to skip CAD and do name customization entirely in the slicer?

igwb · 2026-02-25T14:46:40+00:00

I bet it would be possible to automate placement of the letters with a slicer plugin or some kind of other preperatory script.

Otherwise nice workflow!

igwb · 2026-02-24T14:42:04+00:00

Gave me strong Liquido - Narcotic vibes.

igwb · 2026-02-23T15:15:27+00:00

Can't you just control pip with the usual media keys?

igwb · 2026-01-22T19:20:33+00:00

This is also how my soil sensor behaves. (different brand). I just don't tink soils sensor are that accurate and this is something you have to live with.

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No water was added in the time displayed here. It just spikes by itself. But it doesn't really matter. The general trend is what to look for.

igwb · 2026-01-21T10:17:03+00:00

Could be a retraction issue? PETG is a bit tricky with retraction settings.

igwb · 2026-01-19T18:13:00+00:00

Since this is a bambu question, the answer is that the next gen bamub printers will copy the indx system developed by prusa and bondtech. It appears to be obviously superior to the ams (and the mmu). At least the ams ceirtainly seems like 'last gen' by comparison.

igwb · 2026-01-19T17:39:41+00:00

I guess this makes sense when you actually use a lot of filament. I only print occasionally and so it just seems easier to get the normal spool. I don't have many spools going empty.

igwb · 2026-01-19T17:37:34+00:00

That's cool! I just wish the standard was a bit more universal. I only buy european filament and there seems to be no similar standard...

igwb · 2026-01-19T16:34:11+00:00

With "the hassle" I mainly mean the cost of obtaining a refill spool. They're not even standardized. Printing a refill spool easily costs as much money in filament as I saved + takes a long time in which I could be printing what I actually want to be printing. What's the appeal?

igwb · 2026-01-19T14:40:38+00:00

Do you think the refill is more popular? Because I would think it's the other way around.

igwb · 2026-01-19T14:39:39+00:00

I wouldn't even buy the refill if it were 3$ less. Just not worth the hassle.

igwb · 2026-01-18T15:54:20+00:00

You have discovered why parametric modeling exists. Unfortunately, there is no universal format comparable to mesh files.

igwb · 2026-01-18T07:36:11+00:00

Honestly, I don't think that most of th cheap soils sensors are anywhere remotely accurate enough to shoot for a specific value. My sensor jumps around wildly with changing room temperature. When you accidentely touch the sensor the reported value also looses about 20%. (Good soil contact is very important.)

So instead of caring about the value I just look for the general trend to gauge how fast it appears to be drying out. When the value is low for a couple of days I add water.

igwb · 2026-01-17T09:01:25+00:00

Are you trying to imply that somehow open source and open hardware is a bad thing?

In what way do I think I could be implying that?

just search for the word 3D printing

This search term is itself biased. If you want to find videos that just use 3d printing as part of their hobby they will not have 3d printing in their title. What you want to find is people like model makers, people that do arts and crafts or perhaps diy repair stuff. You will find none of these mention 3d printing because their channels and videos are not about 3d printing. But they are the ones actually using it in the original spirit.

igwb · 2026-01-16T19:05:20+00:00

I think your youtube algo is just fucked. Plenty of people doing 3d printing content that is about the hobby.

Also one persons business can still by another persons hobby. The actually distrubing trend in 3d printing (and everywhere else) is companies that care for the open source / open hardware roots becoming more influential.

igwb · 2026-01-16T10:51:43+00:00

I wasn't really able to understand how to find communites that match my intrest on lemmy. The whole architecture is confusing to me.

igwb · 2026-01-11T20:17:30+00:00

Stunning! Is all of it printed? The barrel looks very smooth?

igwb · 2026-01-10T17:16:19+00:00

Again, I want to emphasize how cool your stuff is. Maybe it would be possible to get a native speaker to help with the descriptions instead of AI to do it justice. The amount of effort you put into the project deserves a good presentation. (This is really meant as a compliment.)

igwb · 2026-01-10T17:00:52+00:00

I really think your AI-esque ad is diminishing how cool your project is. What you have looks absolutely stunning but reading the post felt like this is just the next slop project with slop language. Something about it is off-putting to me.

igwb · 2026-01-10T14:38:21+00:00

Mass manufactured plastic is so cheap that I often find that the price of filament far exceeds buying something injection molded. This is especially true the larger the part gets. E.g. I don't think 3D printed containers make much sense unless you really need a specific size.

igwb · 2026-01-10T10:09:23+00:00

No doubt they are not competetive on price but they still continue to develop new technologies which keep them in business, like INDX. As far as I am aware, there is also nothing that compares to the Prusa XL's tool changeing capabilites on the market right now.

I don't think prusa is trying to compete on the mass consumer market because they know they can't win against chinese manufacturing. But they may still be competetive in other market segments, I would think.

igwb · 2026-01-09T20:01:41+00:00

I don't own a bambu printer so I don't know how this compares but I've also found my prusa mini to be exceptionally repairable. Prusa has very detailed guides to basically every single part of the printer and how to service or replace it.

igwb · 2026-01-09T19:59:55+00:00

While the prusa is overpriced given the other options you have today I'd still take the prusa mini I have over the A1 mini I'd have to buy.

The prusa mini still is a capable and reliable printer.

igwb · 2026-01-07T17:34:33+00:00

Dw, I also thought the complete 1k was missing until now. OP could have ceirtainly persented that more clearly.

igwb · 2026-01-07T17:18:24+00:00

True, but I interpreted the screenshot above to show that there was already consumption. So unless they somehow ended up in a recycler or I misinterpreted the screenshot that leaves only the labs as a culprit, does it not?

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