i used to detest using my 3d printer, then i got the bambu x1c , it pretty much just works there a couple of issues but nothing major, can be a hassle though
the rfid tags are only for their reels currently, you just manually enter other oem’s types color/pla etc, and if you don’t update your firmware the newer bambu ones dont recongise anyway and you have to manually enter it
they focus mostly on cloud usage, you upload from their slicer which is a fork of prusa slicer , i use the orca fork. you can use ‘lan’ mode which is basically SFTP to a sd card you buy, but you can’t remote start it , that only works via cloud which is upload to amazon. then back to the printer. a lot of mqtt going on their cloud does go down more often then you’d expect. you dont need to use it, remote start would be nice on lan mode but i dont think they’re gonna add it as they’re radio silent any time anyone asks
the camera isn’t a normal stream theyve got some internal routing or something going on to sort it out so its the app
they use drop shippers as is common so it can be a fast shipping, their stuff goes out of stock quick
cardboard reels dont usually work in the AMS and some tpu’s don’t either, some CFs the AMS is pretty great though, a few teething issues but its clever
the fancy lidar and spaghetti detection is mostly marketing it always false triggers for me and i’ve esen it print nothing and all the calibration still works.
bed leveling is great, however they have an issue with bent beds because its like a 3mm aluminium pcb, we’re actually working on a replacement,
its a really fast printer, when it head crashes though it can be a mess, usually it just pops off but its can drag around and damage itself (As can any printer but the bambu is meant to come off)
we’ve printed about 1000+ things on it over the months and very few failures, i prefer the textured pei plate
but i like it that i leave it on all the time and just remote send a print to it and just pick it up later.
the community does a bit of that cargo cult brand loving that seems to happen to some things, so it can get a bit toxic sometimes
support is a bit hit and miss, but if you persist with them , theyll get to it eventually, just sometimes needs some back and forth
not all the spares are buyable yet, and the main boards are closed source, encrypted and not for sale yet, they also have to be married by support
some of the early ones had cheap sleeved fans that failed, but they seem to have fixed that
its definitely the closest thing to the ‘toaster’ of 3d printers, i gave my flashforge dual to goodwill (though i felt bad about it)
and it is really fast…