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Bambu Lab Firmware Update Forces Cloud Dependency & User Lock-In - AVOID THEIR 3D PRINTERS! (youtu.be)
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I have a Qidi Q1 Pro and I'm pretty happy with it. Very fast precise prints and pretty reliable. There's definitely some strange design decisions and weird quirks to it and Bambu machines feel way more polished. Overall I'd definitely recommend the Qidi machines but they are not quite as simple for people with no 3d printing experience. They are very feature rich and amazing printers for the price.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What would you say are the quirks? I come from building my own printers for the last 15 years, so I'd say I'm fairly experienced.

    What are the interesting features?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Weirdness: The default g-code for the machine does silly things like park the nozzle over the build plate letting it ooze, instead of over the nozzle wiper/waste container.

    The filament change routine is strange, requiring you to remove the bowden tube to cut the filament every time. This is easily fixed by printing a filament cutter and using that to cut the filament.

    The bowden tube rubs against the top plexiglass lid for the machine, requiring you to print a riser for the lid to avoid it getting all scratched up.

    The door for the machine is an odd shape design with no handle making it a little annoying to get a grip to open it.

    The filament holder they include is a very bad design, flexes heavily with a full roll of filament and I have had spools fall off several times while printing.

    The touch screen menu isn't very intuitive and it can be very laggy at times.

    Good features for the price point: Fully enclosed with built in chamber heater.

    Pretty decent auto leveling system.

    Timelapse camera.

    Runs klipper/mainsail and input shaping is pretty cool.

    I have around 500 hours on mine and I haven't had any prints fail that were the fault of the machine so I'm pretty impressed by that. And I find the features and capabilities to be pretty great for the price point. They just could use to do some polishing of the design

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I bought one based on this thread, but only set it up a few days ago.

    Two days ago, my five-year-old requested that I print them a cat. I downloaded two cat models, one that was print-in-place bendy and one that was meant to test your calibration. I tried to print both, but both of them caused the printer to hang after displaying "stop processing, please wait ... "

    I spent several hours testing and troubleshooting this, only to find an old thread saying that the printer firmware can't handle filenames between 6-9 characters (not including the extension), meaning the filenames could be 5 characters or fewer; or 10 or more. I had named my files calicat.gcode and flexicat.gcode. After adjusting them to be longer filenames, everything started working beautifully.

    I'm very happy with the printer now that I know that, but it seems such a random error that it was very frustrating to try to fix. I thought my printer arrived broken. Hopefully if someone else encounters the same problem, they find this post and it fixes their problems!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I have never actually tried printing off the device itself, the touch screen is very confusing. I always submit print jobs over the network via OrcaSlicer. But yes, that is exactly the kind of thing I meant when I said it has some odd quirks.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I think my first print was with the touch screen.

    I printed a few things by sending directly from the Qidi slicer that came with it, but it pretty consistently is crashing at 40-80% when connecting through the network. I've been using the web interface directly and that's going pretty well.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Q1 pro has a filament wiper and a poop trashcan that you need to empty. You'll do fine using them, they're a great tool to use as a beginner, just get "quirks" that someone that googles can solve. For the x-plus for instance, the nozzle fan only blows from one direction so you need to print out a two directional one for better printing stability. Honestly, it was my first printer and I did great with it.

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