r/BambuLabX2D

I have the opportunity to purchase a used X1E from my work soon (about 1000 hours). I run a small print farm for parts that we use for our products we manufacture, and we're currently in the process of switching everything over to H2S printers. There's no price for it yet, but my boss said he'll give me a good deal. I already personally own an H2D and X2D for my side business and love them both.

At what price do you think the X1E would be a good idea over another X2D? The X1E would come with multiple brand new spare Biqu build plates and tons of spare OEM parts. I'm also already very familiar with repairs on X1C/X1E/P1S printers from years of running them at work. X1E also has 320c nozzle temp, over the X2D 300c nozzle temp.

Edit:

This post is 50% out of curiosity of what others would be willing to pay at this point for an X1E, but also will somewhat sway the decision I end up making.

Looking for help.

I've recently got a X2D and it's quite a downgrade in comparison to my P2S. I'm printing using the default 0.24 profile and Bambu labs' own PLA Matte profile. And it just gives me terrible top layers. I've tried:

• Running the printer calibration.
• Drying the filament in the AMS.
• Using a fresh unused 0.4mm nozzle.
• re-tightened the screws on the heating assembly.

In that first picture of the 4 circles I have:

1. Top right is using the Generic PLA filament. It actuually looks the best out of all of them, but still not as good as I expect it to be, still worse than my P2S with the same settings.
2. Bottom Right is using Bambu PLA MAtte filament profile.
3. Top Left is using bambu PLA Matte filament profile and a +0.02 Nozzle offset from the first layer calibration settings screen.
4. Bottom left is the using bambu pla matte filament profile and a +0.04 nozzle offset.

The big grey circle was printed using the PLA Basic Filament profile, while better still issues. The actual process changes are only changing the walls to be 4 and the infil to be gyroid at 5%. No other changes.

I don't know what to do anymore. Increasing the nozzle offset was what Bambu lab livechat recommended me but that didn't change top layer and only made the first layer worse.

Totally new to 3D printing, I bought a X2D. Most of it was pretty straightforward, and it all seemed so easy. That was until I stumbled upon 3D Mobility which seems like a good cause and I don't really mind printing some extra stuff. Then they ask you to print two test plates, one of them being TPU. This seemed like a completely new thing to me, and honestly, it caused some anxiety

I didn't want the hassle of having to constantly swap tubes, etc. so I wanted to do it right. I bought an extra AMS HT, PTFE Splitter, Feed Module and now it's a matter of swapping spools again.

This will be my first experiment printing TPU 90A. Wish me luck!

First print

thank you bambu lab 👍

This is my third printer in about 6 months as I've rapidly descended down the 3d printing rabbit hole. Started with a used Ankermake M5C that I got for $50. Then I wanted something enclosed and core xy so I got a flashforge AD5M. I'd kind of been avoiding Bambu Lab. I've not been and still aren't a fan of their proclivity to try and lock down their software and potential open source license violations, but I could never deny the quality of the machines they make, and as I went further down the rabbit hole and got a better and better handle on what it is I actually want my 3d printers to be able to do, I couldn't shake the feeling that the X2D was aim at me personally. Good build volume, heated chamber, nozzles that get hot enough to handle most of the reasonably priced engineering filaments, with a auxiliary extruder obviously optimized for support/support interface printing. For me 3d printing is primarily an enabler for my other hobbies, and nobody really seems to make a printer quite like the X2D, laser focused on printing the kind of engineering filaments most people are actually going to print with any regularity at an astonishing price for what you're getting with in the box.

First benchy coming out now. Still familiarizing myself with the printer and Bambu studio. But very much looking forward to putting the machine through it's paces over the next few weeks.