3D PRINTING

The H2S arrived today. What a freaking machine. One of the most incredible pieces of machinery I have ever purchased.

Even the packaging was beautiful. Plugged it in, calibrated it, and it's printing the most beautiful prints I've ever seen within 2 hours of purchase.

If you're on the fence about what manufacturer to go with, just go Bambu. There's simply no substitute in this marketplace.
 
Can someone with a 3d printer make me a cup holder? I'm looking for something like the picture attached but with a single cup holder. I'm willing to pay of course.
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Scott86MJ said:
Can someone with a 3d printer make me a cup holder? I'm looking for something like the picture attached but with a single cup holder. I'm willing to pay of course.
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DM me, sounds like a fun project.
My son is working through his engineering tech degree and needs projects like this to keep him excited.

Gonna need dimensions of the space it fits in.
 
Well the honeymoon with the H2S is over. I'm packing it up and sending it right back to Bambu. What a POS.

Small simple prints work just fine. Anything above 3 inches fails every single time. Thing just self destructs. Every model I try, every filament I try, every setting, every tweak. Nothing. It simply doesn't work. It's almost 100% a hardware problem with something wrong with the printer itself. Nothing else makes sense.

If I wanted to fiddle around and tweak things, I'd have bought a Qidi Max Q2. Fuck this thing, seriously.
 
Friday:
Macdaddy4738 said:
The H2S arrived today. What a freaking machine. One of the most incredible pieces of machinery I have ever purchased.

Even the packaging was beautiful. Plugged it in, calibrated it, and it's printing the most beautiful prints I've ever seen within 2 hours of purchase.

If you're on the fence about what manufacturer to go with, just go Bambu. There's simply no substitute in this marketplace.
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Macdaddy4738 said:
Well the honeymoon with the H2S is over. I'm packing it up and sending it right back to Bambu. What a POS.

Small simple prints work just fine. Anything above 3 inches fails every single time. Thing just self destructs. Every model I try, every filament I try, every setting, every tweak. Nothing. It simply doesn't work. It's almost 100% a hardware problem with something wrong with the printer itself. Nothing else makes sense.

If I wanted to fiddle around and tweak things, I'd have bought a Qidi Max Q2. Fuck this thing, seriously.
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Rough weekend huh? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
 
jeepinmatt said:
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Rough weekend huh? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
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Honestly makes no sense at all. It's the same failure, in the same location, at the same height every single time. I've messed with everything I possibly can and it just won't work beyond 3 inches or so. Absolutely ridiculous for a 1700 machine that is supposed to work "out of the box".

But I will say that anything simple and less than an inch tall prints beautifully, but if I wanted just that, I'd have gone with the A1 or something cheap.
 

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Macdaddy4738 said:
Honestly makes no sense at all. It's the same failure, in the same location, at the same height every single time. I've messed with everything I possibly can and it just won't work beyond 3 inches or so. Absolutely ridiculous for a 1700 machine that is supposed to work "out of the box".

But I will say that anything simple and less than an inch tall prints beautifully, but if I wanted just that, I'd have gone with the A1 or something cheap.
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what kind of failure? Sounds like something is blocking the Z lead screw travel
 
Macdaddy4738 said:
Honestly makes no sense at all. It's the same failure, in the same location, at the same height every single time. I've messed with everything I possibly can and it just won't work beyond 3 inches or so. Absolutely ridiculous for a 1700 machine that is supposed to work "out of the box".

But I will say that anything simple and less than an inch tall prints beautifully, but if I wanted just that, I'd have gone with the A1 or something cheap.
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Understood, I just thought the total swing from a 5 star review to a 1 star review was humorous.
 
RatLabGuy said:
what kind of failure? Sounds like something is blocking the Z lead screw travel
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I posted the time-lapse video on another post. It's hard to catch but the whole thing just stops functioning. Honestly that lead screw thing is a good bet. It does appear that the printer head crashes in to the prints.

I'm not sure what would possibly be blocking the z screw though. Especially since it has no problem moving up and down when not printing anything.
 
Macdaddy4738 said:
I posted the time-lapse video on another post. It's hard to catch but the whole thing just stops functioning. Honestly that lead screw thing is a good bet. It does appear that the printer head crashes in to the prints.

I'm not sure what would possibly be blocking the z screw though. Especially since it has no problem moving up and down when not printing anything.
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what kind of trouble shooting have you done?
Did you try just manually moving the bed up and down past that point and seeing it it sticks?
 
I know nothing about these machines, but on big CNC machines, there's generally 3 limits:
Soft limit, programmed and changeable in the software
Absolute limit, coded in by the manufacturer
Hard limit/mechnical limit, physical travel limitation due to interference.
 
RatLabGuy said:
what kind of trouble shooting have you done?
Did you try just manually moving the bed up and down past that point and seeing it it sticks?
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Mostly filament based at this point. Dried everything, changed all the settings I know of for it to be related, changed filament types, profiles.

Cleaned the bed over and over again. Handled it with gloves. Tried multiple different prints.

I haven't tried manually moving the bed yet. I'll try that tomorrow. I'm not sure what would be limiting the travel though. When it comes from the factory, the bed is all the way down on the bottom. If it rose up to calibrate, it has to be able to move as it should. I actually calibrated twice because I moved printer locations.
 
So I'm finally able to sit down and muck about in Bambu Studio. I haven't had a ton of time to do this and I've been using the Handy app.

It seems like all the default profiles for filament are built for speed. Like, absurd speed. I'm thinking perhaps that's part of the issue. Overture filament is apparently okay at Bambu speeds, but not ideal. I've slowed the print speeds down to what I'm familiar dealing with Overture on. A little slow but whatever. I ordered a boat load of Bambu filament which I think is designed for their faster speeds.

I also suspect that the failures are happening because of both the print speed and because the machine has some vicious shake to it. Evidently it's built to move and the machine compensates for it, but I think coupled with the Overture not being super great at fast speeds, it's causing the problem. I've got some stabilizing feet printing now.

I also ordered a Biqu Glacial plate for it. Seems like the Bambu PEI is picky and many don't seem to think it's very good.

FWIW, Bambu customer service was super quick about responding to me. They've sent some files over they want printed to see the results. I'll try them tomorrow.

I was salty before, but frankly I haven't done enough true troubleshooting to be about that. Nothing I've printed has come from the slicer and the Handy app is only good for really quick hands off stuff.

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God I feel dumb. I strongly believe the failure was 100% related to default filament profiles trying to print at the speed of light. I'm pretty certain I'll have finished dessicant containers tomorrow with no issues at slower speeds.
 
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Macdaddy4738 said:
So I'm finally able to sit down and muck about in Bambu Studio. I haven't had a ton of time to do this and I've been using the Handy app.

It seems like all the default profiles for filament are built for speed. Like, absurd speed. I'm thinking perhaps that's part of the issue. Overture filament is apparently okay at Bambu speeds, but not ideal. I've slowed the print speeds down to what I'm familiar dealing with Overture on. A little slow but whatever. I ordered a boat load of Bambu filament which I think is designed for their faster speeds.

I also suspect that the failures are happening because of both the print speed and because the machine has some vicious shake to it. Evidently it's built to move and the machine compensates for it, but I think coupled with the Overture not being super great at fast speeds, it's causing the problem. I've got some stabilizing feet printing now.

I also ordered a Biqu Glacial plate for it. Seems like the Bambu PEI is picky and many don't seem to think it's very good.

FWIW, Bambu customer service was super quick about responding to me. They've sent some files over they want printed to see the results. I'll try them tomorrow.

I was salty before, but frankly I haven't done enough true troubleshooting to be about that. Nothing I've printed has come from the slicer and the Handy app is only good for really quick hands off stuff.

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God I feel dumb. I strongly believe the failure was 100% related to default filament profiles trying to print at the speed of light. I'm pretty certain I'll have finished dessicant containers tomorrow with no issues at slower speeds.
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Throw away the Handy app. It's useless except for being extremely lazy.
 
I tried a few other filaments but always came back to Bambu. They just work well. Plus with each spool having RFID the printer know exactly whats loaded in it. I really like the whole ecosystem.
 
NCJeeplover said:
I tried a few other filaments but always came back to Bambu. They just work well. Plus with each spool having RFID the printer know exactly whats loaded in it. I really like the whole ecosystem.
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At work we only use Bambu filaments (except for cases of weird things (like SimuBone or conductive materials) bc 99% of the time it just works and we save time.
At home I'm not that kind of baller and mostly use Polymaker with minimal tuning.
 
Macdaddy4738 said:
So I'm finally able to sit down and muck about in Bambu Studio. I haven't had a ton of time to do this and I've been using the Handy app.

It seems like all the default profiles for filament are built for speed. Like, absurd speed. I'm thinking perhaps that's part of the issue. Overture filament is apparently okay at Bambu speeds, but not ideal. I've slowed the print speeds down to what I'm familiar dealing with Overture on. A little slow but whatever. I ordered a boat load of Bambu filament which I think is designed for their faster speeds.

I also suspect that the failures are happening because of both the print speed and because the machine has some vicious shake to it. Evidently it's built to move and the machine compensates for it, but I think coupled with the Overture not being super great at fast speeds, it's causing the problem. I've got some stabilizing feet printing now.

I also ordered a Biqu Glacial plate for it. Seems like the Bambu PEI is picky and many don't seem to think it's very good.

FWIW, Bambu customer service was super quick about responding to me. They've sent some files over they want printed to see the results. I'll try them tomorrow.

I was salty before, but frankly I haven't done enough true troubleshooting to be about that. Nothing I've printed has come from the slicer and the Handy app is only good for really quick hands off stuff.

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God I feel dumb. I strongly believe the failure was 100% related to default filament profiles trying to print at the speed of light. I'm pretty certain I'll have finished dessicant containers tomorrow with no issues at slower speeds.
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Was it overture petg? If so I had about the same luck with prints failing towards the top, even after drying it out for like 2 days.

Also if your using poly maker filaments they have print profiles on there website that you can upload into Bambu studio.
 
snipes243 said:
Was it overture petg? If so I had about the same luck with prints failing towards the top, even after drying it out for like 2 days.

Also if your using poly maker filaments they have print profiles on there website that you can upload into Bambu studio.
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All my filament is Overture right now. I ordered a bunch of Bambu filament, that won't arrive until Friday. Still having failures with anything taller even with slowing it all down. We'll see how the Bambu stuff does. The test files they sent printed out okay, with a few issues, but nothing wild.

The MakerLab is probably the best reason to buy Bambu honestly. There is some really cool stuff in there.
 
Might be a dumb question but did you remove all of the packaging screws and foam etc that comes packed with?

Our H2D has operated flawlessly for a couple months and several spools of filament. Everything from complex multi color stuff to a Batman mask for a large dog. Once I get time I’m going to set up a window vent system and try some one piece pteg 1:10 RC crawler bodies. Need to try to make one for the slash too, that thing takes a beating.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Throw away the Handy app. It's useless except for being extremely lazy.
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What should I be using with the H2D? I mostly poach stuff off MakerWorld. I would like to dip my toes in designing my own stuff too. I am trying to fit a FJ45 cab on a SCX I chassis.
 
frankenyoter said:
What should I be using with the H2D? I mostly poach stuff off MakerWorld. I would like to dip my toes in designing my own stuff too. I am trying to fit a FJ45 cab on a SCX I chassis.
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For slicing and printing, until you get to using multiple printers, just use Bambu Studio.
It has a button you can flip between standard and advanced settings
If you use a pc, on MakerWorld you can select to import a model directly into Bambu Studio and it will import with all the print settings already set as the maker intended... So in theory you just have to hit print.

For designing your own stuff if you're starting at square one I love TinkerCAD. It's make for kids and stupid easy. You can export an STL which is the format Bambu Studio will want for slicing and printing.

For real CAD, OnShape is great and has a free home user/hobby license.
 
RatLabGuy said:
For slicing and printing, until you get to using multiple printers, just use Bambu Studio.
It has a button you can flip between standard and advanced settings
If you use a pc, on MakerWorld you can select to import a model directly into Bambu Studio and it will import with all the print settings already set as the maker intended... So in theory you just have to hit print.

For designing your own stuff if you're starting at square one I love TinkerCAD. It's make for kids and stupid easy. You can export an STL which is the format Bambu Studio will want for slicing and printing.

For real CAD, OnShape is great and has a free home user/hobby license.
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Using the Bambu/Makerworld interface already and it’s been flawless for everything we have tried.

That H2D does good work. I’m not concerned with a little purge time/waste
 
I’ve played with tinker a little but not gone too far. Might look at OnShape soon.

I told my son to use the printer to make money for a car if he wants to. Kids are smarter than me and have more patience.
 
frankenyoter said:
I’ve played with tinker a little but not gone too far. Might look at OnShape soon.

I told my son to use the printer to make money for a car if he wants to. Kids are smarter than me and have more patience.
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It's not easy to make money with a printer anymore. Now everyone has one and everyone is selling the same crap.
Where people do well is to find a specific niche community with a need a refine a solution. For example there's a couple guys that sell specific parts for 80s 4runners.... Cupholders, dash mods, etc. Complex enough chore I'm not going to take on the task to DIY for the price of what they charge.
 
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