Is my 3D printing setup wrong?

[LMGcommunity]

Now that Bambu Printers may be harder to recommend after their latest update, what 3D printer should Linus buy next? To find out we asked Jake and some other youtubers (Jeff Geerling, William Osman, and Camden Bowen) to show off their Prusa, Elegoo, and more different printers!

 

 

[MultiGamerClub]

5 minutes ago? HELL YEAH

[Wmsr734]

Does anyone know witch cereal containers that Jake was using?

[Kiwamu]

They got rid of Dennis' se... ... HOLY! 

[geerlingguy]

1 hour ago, Wmsr734 said:

Does anyone know witch cereal containers that Jake was using?

Not sure which ones he was using, but I know someone who bought a few packs of these and likes them: https://www.amazon.com/Skroam-Containers-Organization-Dispensers-Measuring/dp/B0C1N9C3T7/ ("Skroam Cereal Containers Storage of 6 [4L/135.2 oz]")

[CasualExtremist]

I still don't know how to feel about the intro segway... Something about the demeanor of Dennis's impersonation curdles my soul

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

3 hours ago, Wmsr734 said:

Does anyone know witch cereal containers that Jake was using?

I would look into the 10.6L Ikea365 container:

https://www.printables.com/search/models?q=365+filament

[techElliott]

I do think, even with the whole Bambu situation, that Bambu printers, specifically the A1 mini and A1, are the best option for beginners as they balance ease of use, quality, and cost.

[Joseph_Stalin]

I really enjoyed this video, surprised but happy to see the collabs. Interesting to see everyones take on the subject. 

[iSuat]

Can anyone help me find this model?

[05032-Mendicant-Bias]

I've been going to the deep end with local GenANI with ROCm acceleration. I wanted to share that it is now possible to convert images in 3D models using newer open source models that have become available in the last couple of weeks, and run locally.

 

First use any T2I model to make an image of what you want

 

It's better to do background removal and make a neutral png image with transparency. I did it rough here but it works. (I used paint to remove background XD. With ComfyUI there are a number of background removal strategies with better results.)

Then use I23D to make a 3D model of that. The model will be able to hallucinate what's on the hidden side of the image and make a 3D file.

 

 

Performance wise I have a 7900XTX 24GB, and the 3D model generation took 130s, it's about the energy to boil 6 grams of water.

 

 

 

The model seems pretty good, only the tail seems weak from a pringing perspective. If you want to 3D print it one strategy is to bisect it then glue the 2 halves to avoid supports, or just use supports. I'll be trying that.

 

There are nodes to also texture the model that are meant to use it as assets for videogames, which I believe is going to be pretty incredible.

 

This model comes from tencent and is open source. The community and AMD have been working hard to make everything else around it work.

https://huggingface.co/Kijai/Hunyuan3D-2_safetensors/tree/main

https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-Hunyuan3DWrapper

 

As for my setup, it's pretty difficult because I foolishly went AMD, it's going to be a lot easier with Nvidia.

• Win11
• 7900XTX 24GB + 64GB DDR5 (you really need that ram)
• WSL2 + Ubuntu 22
• AMD Driver
• ROCm
• Pytorch
• ComfyUI
• Hunyuan 3D

[White_Helix]

13 hours ago, techElliott said:

I do think, even with the whole Bambu situation, that Bambu printers, specifically the A1 mini and A1, are the best option for beginners as they balance ease of use, quality, and cost.

Yes and no. I think that heavily depends on if you can live with a product, which you will not have full control over in the future and support that company, which just lied about stuff when the shitstorm started. I do own an A1 myself, but I wont get another one. Now its in LAN Mode only, Internet access is blocked in my firewall. I had some trust issues with Bambu before but felt that I can work with that as there is MQTT etc., but those announced changes and the whole handling of the situation changed that for me.

[Potatoes2241]

You guys should consider doing more videos on 3D printing, this one kicks ass. This whole deal is a perfect balance between a nerdy rabbit hole and an accessible yet super useful hobby.

 

4 hours ago, iSuat said:

Can anyone help me find this model?

 

Not the exact same one but seems similar https://www.printables.com/model/168-universal-auto-rewind-spool-holder-mm

 

17 hours ago, techElliott said:

I do think, even with the whole Bambu situation, that Bambu printers, specifically the A1 mini and A1, are the best option for beginners as they balance ease of use, quality, and cost.

Begrudgingly agree with you - as an enthusiast with some experience I would rather get something capable of running klipper and having modification potential, but for clueless beginners who just need to print stuff Bambu are unfortunately still the best. "Best" in this situation being a very specific set of things - high quality hardware that can just run out of the box without much modification, automation for the most important calibrations, and enough community content for reference. Bambu knows this well and exploits their advantages, and will continue doing just that as long as the positives outweight the scummy practices for the minimal possible amount.

 

There is nothing "special" in their printers and every company out there can pull this off, but the entire 3D printing community now has to vote with their wallets and push for positive changes made by other manufacturers. And make enough community content, surely.

[Judokaman]

With the recent release of the Anycubic Kobra S1 Combo, I see it as a good beginner entry thinking about the pricing (being cheaper than any other 3d printer with multicolor capabilities) and for what I can see so far, an easy-ish set up, thinking about unpacking and set up. Surely is not as great as the Bamboo 15/20 minutes ready to print, though still a straightforward path to make a first print.

I have been looking at 3d printers for the past 4 months since I want to start this new hobby and I am seriously thinking about this option after the whole bamboo firmware situation put me off about buying a P1S since the price is not cheap and I wouldn’t want to be locked in another ecosystem, like Apple.

happy to be wrong with my opinion, if anyone has any suggestions, please do! 

[Potatoes2241]

1 hour ago, Judokaman said:

Anycubic Kobra S1 Combo

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but Anycubic is doing pretty much the same thing Bambu does - they have a closed ecosystem. Their hardware and software is closed source and I won't be surprised if they also lock down the slicer. Creality on the other hand takes a lot of critique for some other blunders but at least for now they are mostly adhering to the opensource nature of the product - you can mod them, you can use custom software with it, you can control them however you want. My Ender V3 SE is modded beyond recognition and has much improved performance along with Klipper software, but with my A1 the only useful mod I could do is to block its internet access through my router firewall so that I can continue using the slicer I like 

 

Also not trying to bicker with you but IMO the "x minutes ready to print" that is marketed by every manufacturer out there is a huge load of marketing BS talk and an absolutely meaningless metric. Honestly there are two possible options here - either you order a disassembled Prusa or even a Voron and take a freaking while to start printing, or you get a printer that is fully/partially assembled and just needs some preparation post-shipping like screwing in the portal or removing the fixators from the moving parts. Plus or minus 10-30 minutes to prepare your first ever printer should not make any difference to anyone and don't let the manufacturers convince your otherwise. And that's not mentioning the fact that manufacturers straight up lie about that ready time as if they've measured it by asking a ninja with a speed buff to prepare it. Now the automated calibrations on the other hand do improve the initial experience, but I suppose this is mostly the case for all the recently released printers.

[SquirrelBo55]

This video came out while I'm battling with Bambu UK to receive my P1S Printer/AMS Combo.

 

I ordered on the 25th of Feb from the official UK site, 2 days later I received an AMS Lite - not the printer/ams I ordered.

I spent 4 days going back and forth with Bambu trying to get a return raised, and finally sent it back on the 4th of March. 

On 13th of March, I contacted Bambu to find out what was happening, as the return was still showing as "in progress" with the courier. They agreed to send out my printer on an expediated delivery, which arrived today.... It's ANOTHER AMS Lite!
 

At this point, I'm ready to get a refund and get something else.