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But you need a ton of photos.

The technique is called photogrammetry

Print a 1 or 2 layer thick rectangle the length of the seam. Maybe 1cm wide. and glue on top. Sort of like how you use tape.

Yeah let me know. My first printer was a creality ender so I am pretty much a troubleshooting expert from that experience. 😅

Be sure to check the screws on the backside. You will need to take out the front three to access it.

https://forum.bambulab.com/t/are-you-having-issues-with-first-layer-heat-block-solved/110665

How old is your printer. ?

I had near 2000 print hours and started having first layer problems. I did a lot of troubleshooting and nothing worked.

Ended up being that the heat block needed replaced. Even though it seemed to be functioning. It was causing flow errors or something.

It could also be that the screws around it get loose. That’s actually been most people’s issue but that wasn’t mine.

I replaced the heat block and it fixed it. Here is a link to the thing I’m talking about. Explains to check screws first before considering replacing the heat block.

Hopefully that’s your issue cause that’s easier to do than replacing the heat block.

A poor first layer may not be super noticeable at first. But the problem for me was it got worse over time and did result in prints lifting.

https://forum.bambulab.com/t/are-you-having-issues-with-first-layer-heat-block-solved/110665

My experience in manually changing filament on my old printer. : There was often tiny gaps between color layers that ultimately made the model weak. Sometimes blobs instead.

(I would pause and change filament at a specific layer to get a multicolor print without a multicolor printer).

To solve this I would add a cylinder object to the plate so that the first place the head went after a color change was to the cylinder to get the filament back up to the right flow rate.

The pressure changes from changing filament is why the printer usually does a quick line at the start of a print. And why it’s necessary for multicolor changes.

Yeah op. Rotate it so it’s printing with bottom and top being the open parts on the middle.

Rough sketch but hope this helps.

I don’t think there has been any gun banning on printers. Only on 3d file host websites and that’s all of them as far as I know.

And I’m pretty sure it would be impossible to ban a printer from printing a gun.

A gun would print in multiple components that could be almost anything from looking at one part at a time.

Seems like the owner would be suing them if that was the case.

Honestly it all sounds like manufactured drama to me.

If you don’t like Bambu product limits. Just use a different brand. There are many other companies. No one is forcing people to use bambu products.

It would be like me complaining a company doesn’t sell the shoes I want. And then trying to sue them because of that and start drama in shoe comunities. Saying they are in the wrong for not running their company and offering services or products I want.

Okay but we are talking about Bambu using a specific open source code for creating their software and firmware.

Have they violated the use of that specific open source code in some way ?

Their software is free to use.

Creality firmware is based on open source but they make it hard to jail break their printers too.

Why aren’t you going on tirade about creality?

I don’t think so. Open source stuff doesn’t usually require that for using it as a base.

Android OS is based on open source.

Did Microsoft or whoever owns it, sign a contract saying they promise to keep it open since it’s based on linux ?

I don’t think it works like that.

Open source base just means you can’t charge money for it.

Unpopular opinion but. A company doesn’t owe you open access to their tech or software.

Bambu spends an enormous amount of money on r&d.

They have incredibly high quality printers that are intuitive and easy to use.

They collect data to improve their machines.

You can opt out of that collection.

The replacement parts are cheap. Comparable to other brands.

And you can buy non Bambu parts. That fit. But why when official high quality parts are available for same price.

I don’t know why everyone is so mad that Bambu won’t let them tinker with the software. Or “jail break it”.

Why would you want to on a Bambu. ? It already works optimally.

if you want a tinker printer than get one that’s open.

Most people don’t need that. They just want to print things.

I get that people think “it’s my device and I should be able to jail break it if I want”. Ok

Then buy a device that lets you.

It would be different if Bambu printers were crap and needed tinkering but wouldn’t allow it. Or they lied about being open. But that’s not the situation.

Bambu has been up front since the begining that their printers would not be open.

They never mislead about that.

Why are you mad about something they made clear from the begining ?

And yes I know they used open source data to base a lot of their tech on. (Yeah and Linux is used a lot for proprietary stuff too. It is what it is). But they have proprietary software and hardware now that was a result of their own investments into research and development.

You can’t hold it against a company for not giving away advancements they made to their competitors.

With so much unethical and anti-privacy , companies blocking right to repair. And all the shitty tech companies out there, it’s hard for me to take the complaints against Bambu as anything other than grifting and online created drama.

Their products were always closed. They never said they would be open.

Use a different brand if that’s a problem for you.

They never promised to keep anything open. It never was open.

This is new territory. It’s going to take some trial and error to figure it out.

Nothing can be tested and improved upon until it’s rolled out.

Right it’s going to take longer than a few months to enforce properly and undo the damage and protect new generations from its negative effects.

At least it’s a start.

Right!? MRI machines need them way more.

Okay that’s pretty funny

Yeah I think big hubs are too problematic.

Someone else mentioned Codeberg

Yeah I also liked the show subs where people theorized and discussed details.