What about software? Locked in? Can you design anywhere and load to print or do you have to design in their software?
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mrcleanup@lemmy.world 1 day agoAll your points are valid, but I’m not going to put in 3rd party hardware and their default slicer seems great to me. There’s a group of users for who this is all more or less not an issue.
My Bambu had also been soooo easy. So there’s that.
bowreality@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
All your design work would be outside their software (Fusion, Solidworks, Tinkercad, etc). You would then export to a 3mf (native) or stl and then import that into the slicer program (this is where the “walled garden” starts). That translates it to gcode that the printer then uses, almost like a backwards CNC.
alx@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
All slicers, including bambu-studio (which, as a fork of prusa-slicer, is open source) work by loading .stl files from any source, so yes. You can also techniclaay use any slicer, and no network at all, if you put .gcode files on the printer’s sd card. Not convenient, but functional. But again, bamu-studio works great
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
Bambus do print great, but Sovol, Qidi, Prusa, etc. also seem to print great while not doing any of the Apple/HP-esque anti-consumer practices.