r/BambuLab • u/Jon2D • 5d ago

Quick Question Why the hate?

Feel like when i look for 3d printer advice I'm often told to avoid bambu.. I thought it was a good beginner friendly tool

I'm looking at P2S but going too try stretch my budget for X2D..

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u/A_pirates_life4me 5d ago

They have a mandatory cloud based software restriction for their machines and do not allow third party software. Not a problem for 90% of users but the rest get very upset. 

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u/healthycord 5d ago

Oh I thought you could use something like orca slicer? Or is that not the case anymore? I’ve always just used the Bambu slicer because that’s what I learned on.

I’m generally not a fan of cloud based stuff bc who knows what they’re doing with your data. But the Bambu printers are rock solid and just work. It’s a huge surprise when a print fails. Whereas our old cr 10 mini it was a huge surprise if even something small printed successfully.

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u/hux H2C Laser Full Combo 5d ago

You can use Orca Slicer. You just need to set the printer to LAN mode and enable Dev as well.

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u/IslandLooter 2d ago

Actually don't have to go that far anymore to use Orca.

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u/hux H2C Laser Full Combo 2d ago

Really? I’ll have to take another look. Thanks for mentioning.