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Hi everyone,

We’re excited to introduce a new initiative for the U1 ecosystem:

The Snapmaker U1 Innovation Fund — a $150,000 funding program for developers, technical contributors, makers, and innovators building technologies, tools, and ideas that help move U1—and 3D printing as a whole—forward.

Over the past year, we’ve seen developers, makers, and community members create new tools, workflows, modifications, and software that expanded what’s possible with U1. At the same time, U1 itself has benefited from many of the technologies, ideas, and projects that have helped advance modern 3D printing.

Innovation in 3D printing has always been driven by collaboration. Great ideas often come from people experimenting, solving real-world problems, and sharing their work with others.

That’s the spirit behind the Innovation Fund.

1. Why we’re doing this

Our goals are straightforward:

• Push U1 further by encouraging new software, hardware, and workflow innovations.
• Give back to the community by recognizing and supporting contributors whose work helps move 3D printing forward.
• Welcome more innovators to participate in the next generation of 3D printing and multicolor manufacturing.

2. What’s included

The Innovation Fund consists of two parts:

• $50,000 in Founding Sponsorships supporting projects that have already made significant contributions to U1 and modern 3D printing, including Full Spectrum, Moonraker, OrcaSlicer, Klipper, Fluidd, and Surface Color Stitch — a big thank you to these projects and their contributors.
• $100,000 in Open Competitions across two phases, giving developers, makers, and U1 users the opportunity to submit their own projects and innovations.

Whether you’re developing software, designing hardware modifications, creating new workflows, or exploring entirely new ideas, we’d love to see what you build.

We hope this initiative helps more ideas get discovered, more projects receive support, and more people become part of the growing U1 ecosystem.

Learn more about the Innovation Fund and how to participate.

To everyone who has contributed ideas, projects, tools, and innovations along the way: thank you for making something wonderful.

Hi everyone,

We know that nobody likes being spammed with promotional posts. At the same time, some of you do want to know when new sales channels go live, when your favorite filament is back in stock, or when there’s a decent bundle deal.

So we’ve created this dedicated megathread – a community info hub + two-way communication bridge.

You'll find:

· New sales channels (Amazon, new resellers, etc.)

· Restock alerts (e.g., PLA back in stock)

· Limited deals & bundles

Not interested? Just scroll past – no interruption.

Interested? ask questions, report regional availability issues, or just stay tuned. We'll update regularly and reply in the comments.
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📋 Changelog

• 2026.6.9 Snapmaker 10th Anniversary: Always Making

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all our community members for standing by us throughout this 10-year journey. There’s an anniversary campaign running on the official store from June 9 to July 10. It includes special offers across selected products, including a limited-time price of $849 for the U1.
Full campaign details: https://us.snapmaker.com/pages/snapmaker-anniversary-sale

Two weeks ago we said Full Spectrum was coming to official Snapmaker Orca.
Today is the follow-through: V2.3.3 Beta is live, and Full Spectrum (Beta) is in it.

New Features

Introduced Full Spectrum (Beta) printing.

Improvements

• Optimized the rib structure of the prime tower. A quadratic programming approach is used to constrain the rib area to a square shape, enhancing the stability of the prime tower during printing.
• Optimized printing from local files. The system can now correctly configure the filament-to-nozzle mapping even when the filament density is 0, preventing printing anomalies.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the first layer of the prime tower could exceed limits under certain process parameter configurations.
• Fixed a series of issues that could occur when a 3MF file contained more filaments than available extruders.
• Fixed an issue where Upload and Upload and Print were unavailable when port 13619 was occupied by another process.
• Fixed an issue where filament mapping could fail when starting a print directly from the built-in model library.

Release notes on Wiki: https://wiki.snapmaker.com/en/snapmaker_orca/release_notes/v233

If you have any questions or want to share your experiments about Full Spectrum, feel free to join the dedicated #full-spectrum channel on the Snapmaker Official Discord. We'd love to hear your feedback and help you get started.