What a great weekend at SMRRF! Was so hectic trying to get the printer working but so great to see nice prints from it today 😍 This system's gonna be developed further - keep an eye out! @The_SMF_ @lborouniversity

What a great weekend at SMRRF! Thanks @The_SMF_ for making it so great. It was so fun making this printer for it. And many more developments still in the works! FullControl used to design the toolpaths and powder dosing action, etc. 🤓

😁 I'll just write it on my exhibitor table tomorrow if all goes belly up and hit the pub 🙃

I am pumped! And also a total idiot... been developing a system for months and ambition was bigger than sense. The first full test is tomorrow just before the show 😱😱😱

Yehhhh! Please come chat to us and find out loads of unreleased capabilities for FullControl... robotics, real-time gcode generation, pharmaceutical pill printing, and loads more!

Can't wait for the show!

Very cool! If this seems to work well on a range of bambu printers and different software versions, I'll get fullcontrol.xyz to point to it! If you start playing around with python FC, you can stick the method directly into FullControl and be credited forevermore 🎉

Very cool on those numbers! That zoomed in nozzle really gives a new look at this stuff. I have some cool ideas that are v easy to program and may give you some killer vids! Can talk thru em when we chat

"Blob printing" model 💧

Yep that'd be cool. FYI, I've got a video that introduces the python stuff here: youtu.be/qaQe-YgDPgo?si=FOJ_… Maybe talk this week. If you email [email protected] with suggested times, I can reply with video call link

The ripple texture model is available as a python notebook, so then you can set huge overhangs and any kind of ripple you like really. The blob one would be cool. And one like the phone holder with wide squidgy extrusion

So awesome to see how this model prints in such detail!

Soooo interesting seeing the difference between uphill and downhill zoomed in!

Yeh nonplanar printing is very dependent on the nozzle and hotend geometry

Normal bambu nozzle is fine. I use 0.4 and 0.6 fairly interchangeably for most models. A less pointy nozzle can be beneficial for printing wider lines (e.g. the phone stand) like E3Ds v6 ones - they have a slightly wider 'flat' around the orifice

...support 3mf files for all bambu printers which I was thinking of doing. It would be feasible. But might not work if bambu update software, and I don't want lock myself into forever re-hacking to suit bambu updates

...see the workflow though, about taking a skeleton(ish) 3mf file and injecting the GCode. I did get it to work for a1mini too, but it took some tinkering to avoid the start-procedure crashing beyond axis limits. The level of tinkering meant I gave up on the idea of formally...

FYI, there is some not-very-publicised docs and examples in FullControl about exporting bambulab_x1 3mf files that can be sent directly from the printer. It's quite tricky to make them work reliably for different versions of the printer firmware or bambu studio though. You can...