The pre-sliced 3D Benchy of the A1 Mini Combo. Full review of the printer available here: 3dprintbeginner.com/bambu-lab-a1-mini-and-ams-lite-review/ Printer Link (aff): shrsl.com/4kq13
This video was one of the main reasons I pulled the trigger on the A1 to upgrade from my ender 3. It just came today, I finished the setup and hit print. It's even more impressive in real life
@@xalex7923 from nothing to a1 mini yesterday and it was amazing it fast it quite but i set the speed to 50% because it going too fast my desk vibrate like crazy.The model print fine still and easy to setup
@@t_casadio1164 I have done some prints and it's night and day! It does every calibration, etc, automatically and the prints are awesome, you wont regret it
Same here, I got the Ender 3 for by Birthday. After couple months of 3D Printing stuff and always ending up having to constantly manually level the bed. I had enough and just but the A1 now, coming next week. The vids I saw so far are out of this world for how amazing this 3D printer can become.
Nope, anyone with a print farm will stick with Prusa for reliability and consistency over speed alone. However, if you do a lot of prototyping or are a hobbyist, I can see Bambu taking over some marketshare.
@@stlbullet You say that, buy I used to work in a top UK university and they switched to BBL, my friends at a quantum computing company switched to BBL, most people I know are switching over slowly. I love prusa support, but feature list alone, it's not worth it to me.
I mean look at that tiny thing, its 18cm each dimension for 500 bucks + shipping. My Ender 5 Pro has 25 XY and 30 Z for LESS, even after upgrading with ABL. Its like saying Tesla is forcing some accountability on Dacia with the Model S Plaid. As soon as say push these really nice machines out for the price of the cheap manufacturers like Creality, they will THEN force some accountability. Same size, same price, but Bambu Tech behind the device. Until then its "just" a premium printer for premium customers, while casuals like me will stay with their 300 buck printers.
@@Sena121 wrong facts. The car comparison is also a bad one. A vehicle is a vehicle. The result between these isn't very differnt if you focus on the job it has to do.. You get from point A to point B. In a safe manner. And some have to show off their money. Waste their money on holes in brake disks etc. But driving a Dacia isn't that much worse than driving a Tesla. Imagine people drive cars for centuries and they were all good. But when it comes to printers, the result (quality/time/price/usablility/reliability/noise.....) matters most. It's not a device to brag about. Sure you can buy a Ender5 Pro but A) the outcome (actual print) will not be as good and B) the handling is not as good. The printers are constantly evolving. The A1 Mini is reaching out for perfection, much more than any other printer. Just look at the Prusa XL..... it's a disaster. On this printer you have to pull and feed every filament manually.. Some have extruder problems. It's loud and slow. And the prints aren't even perfect. The Software isn't there, the display is sad, the price too high, the construction (stability) questionable.
@@REDxFROG I stopped here: " But driving a Dacia isn't that much worse than driving a Tesla." I see you have never driven a Dacia (i had a Sandero I with NOTHING in it, this thing was a shitbox of doom, i loved that little Shitbox) or a Tesla (guess what i did ;) ) to compare. Therefore your whole argument cant be fitting, therefore i do not need to read it :)
@@crowguy506 Ok, i give you this point, i havent seen that the 500 Bucks are the price of the whole bundle. But is the printer alone really worth it? I mean he is ootb, and my ender 5 pro is a shitbox i by now havent fully calibrated, but its fairly small, isnt it?
this machine seems by features and just looking at the sturdy build-engineering in a completely different category than anything else even double its price. i am so curious how other manufacturers will react to this. it will take insane efforts to come close or surpass bambu. no idea how they managed to leap so much harder than all the others...
At double of its price you have proper 3d printers with CoreXY mechanics. This floating design is the cheapest there is, but they managed to make it premium. I wouldn't pay 500 euros on a machine like this, sorry.
this is competition that is 100% not needed because companies like bambu lab will move 3d printing further away from open source and eventually 3d printers will become like regular printers closed source and unrepairable. what expect from chinese company
@@akakakakakak3084 what the hell are you woffling about you muppet. before you decide to answer, read and try to understand my comment. real example of apple brainless consumer over here
Open source or closed source - what matters is what saves people time. I own 2x x1c and 1x mini, and everyone I know has bought Bambu printers in the last year. A solid product is a solid product.
After watching this video my 3D printer is like: "I'm in danger!" :)). I'm very impressed by the speed and the close up view of the machine. Now I understand why the name "Bambu Labs" is not just branding. At least this printer looks very very lab like equipment and a bit sci-fi. And with the risk of getting hated, if a American or European 3D printers brand launched this, I would probably cost like $3999.
Its not about hate. It's the fact. EU nor US companies can't compete with Chinese one. Even Tesla vs BYD. What do you do? Give money to China company rather than to your local one ? Just because it's cheaper? Come on.
Well, you can enable cheat mode by only printing only 1 wall, 3 top layers all in x-direction, infill only in 1 x-direction with go-nuts speed. Just finished a perfect 3d benchy on my old Ultimaker 2 with more sane infill, wall and top layer settings. According to klipper history it took exactly 1 hour and 13 minutes.
@@swapnilmankame actually the purge was when it was calibrating the flow rate. It does it on single colour prints too, if you enable it before it starts printing.
That is just it figuring out the flow rate before printing, it generally doesn't use too much. But Bambu also has settings for when you're doing multi-color where you can print the "waste" that would be made when switching colors into the infill or supports of the model, or you can set it to print a seperate item on the plate with the "waste" when it goes to change colors, great for things you're going to paint anyway.
it's twice the build plate volume and 3x the build volume, so i would say that was a safe bet 😅 even if having two machines at times will be twice as fast, you'll also have an enclosed printer that can print a wider range of materials
Reliability and ease of use are pretty much all I care about when buying 3d printers now. I don’t want to have to mess with manual bed leveling and I want it to print well every time. It’s possible Bambu have proven that.
just got my A1 with ams lite, I printed their free downloadable top mount for the ams which included braces to make the z axis more rigid, this thing is insane, best $550 I've ever spent
@@3DPrintBeginner Hi, I have an A1 Mini, and with the same file from its memory, the printer shakes like crazy. My A1 Mini shakes like hell, just like yours in the video. Is this normal, or do you have a bad desk too? I'm not sure if the A1 is more stable than the A1 Mini, but do you have any advice on how to make it more sturdy or how to set up a good sturdy desk? Thanks for sharing!
I just picked up the A1 mini to add to my desktop for part testing. I printed this benchy and could not believe how much the printer skated across the desk while moving printing. What have you done others done to keep this guy from sliding off the desk?
This video was from 11 months ago. Did they give you options to set how much purge filament? That looks way excessive. My current printers don't purge that much but the prints still come out good. Letting the user decide how much would be nice.
@@leproassula3029I got one now and you can choose not to check bed or filament flow but to get rid of vibration test you need to edit the code in the printer which i did.
I want to buy one, but I'm very worried about the atmosphere in which I'm putting it?' If I put it in my room and adapt a suitable job for it to complete the printing of the model
Current #SpeedBoatRace WR is 1:59 minutes. Not compared to this quality, though 🤪 … but I wonder how this printer would place if pushed to maximum speed.
I have this printer and if I limit acceleration to something like 5-8m/s then no. I have it quite well built wooden TV cabinet, with 10m/s acceleration it already starts moving a bit and sometimes it matches resonance frequency of the table so it's loud. Also vibrations are transferred by parquet floor to my PC table and mouse cursor can shake by a pixel or two as it registers movement of fraction of millimeter. Maybe putting in on iron tile and layer of gravel and sand would help (inspired by railroad tracks or some vibration damping floors). And printer weights like 6kg. I would not put it on table with four flimsy wooden legs.
I have an A1 combo on order and will get here next week.. I still can’t fathom how those ludicrously fast movements can equate to precise lines. It just doesn’t compute in my brain. Anyway, looking forward to seeing it in person in a few days 😅
Well I’ve had it now for 5 months give or take and this thing is simply amazing. 500 print hours more or less, I can’t recommend it enough. Part of me wishes I went for the enclosed printer for printing nylon and more exotic filament but if you’re on a budget stick with the A1 for anything multicolor and save up for a P1S without the AMS combo. That’s my $0.02 anyway. Incredible machines.
Just got my Ender 3 v2 out of hibernation and after spending forever getting it perfect, I think it can go back in to hibernation and be replaced by the A1 🤣 These print speeds are crazy.
@@3DPrintBeginner i still dont get it, the extruder gear turns, plastic gets pushed through the nozzle, the purpose of the purge is to clean the nozzle, but why so much?
Are we sure the video is not speed up.. At 2m 40s the filament moments are a bit odd. Also the benchy is not done until 15:40, so to say it prints it under 13m is a bit of stretch.
Spoken like someone who has never looked at or used any printers other than Bambu. Bambu is basicly just taking ideas from other companies and make them look nicer and then market them towards a more "casual" audience.
@@snart I'm not saying that they are not making good printers or that they are not good for beginners. Obviously they are, but they are definitely not putting other companies out of business. Without other companies they wouldn't even exist. Also your statement might apply to a lot of printers from a few years ago, but nowadays even the budget Ender 3 series or pinter like the M5 etc. are all fully automated and "idiot proof". The people who still struggle with 3D printing thesedays or think that adjusting 2 settings in a slicer is too complicated can't be helped.
Wow this is so fast, my Ender 3 prints in slow motion, lol What is that background noise, sounds like a vacuum or Air Purifier? Do you guys use a Air Purifier for the melting smell of the filament? If you print multi color, does it slowdown alot?
The background noise is the part fan. It’s very powerful and thus not quiet. Pla shouldn’t really smell burnt. I recommend printing at 210°C to prevent pla from burning. The AMS lite unit that comes in the combo of this printer works very fast compared to others and does not take long switching materials
I have four x CX1's and waiting for Mini. Two of of my U S5's are just colecting dust and are still brand new. Using Bambu printers one will never go back to other printers. But one never know???
At about 12:57 on benchys I see an issue quite often with my bridge not acting correctly. It spaghettis off the roof, any reason for that? I get beautiful prints no issue but only had 2 perfect benchies out a good few.
Hi, how can I get the pre-sliced benchy gcode ? I've searched it everywhere but can find one that the Bambulab A1 use. I'am interested to know how bedslinger could achieve this speed.
U can use the 3mf File from MakerWorld (Bambu's own Place for pre-sliced Objects). The first (Green) "Benchy" with the Second Profile is like the pre-sliced from the Printer itself.
its intentional to make sure the filament is being fed at the nozzle and clear any debris from last print. Its not really a lot of filament. I have the P1S and it does the same thing. small price to pay for a good print
I guess the outer wall is still at a regular speed, not to be opossed to this great advance in 3d printing but still needs improvement for a REAL high speed printing.
What do you mean by “real” high speed printing? If you want those 1500mm/s speeds, have fun building a machine all on your own part after part after part. 500mm/s is “real“ high speed printing, especially for a 300$ bed slinger
This is real high speed printing. 13 min benchy at high quality is ridiculous for a bed slinger, let alone a $300 bed slinger. Even my voron has trouble keeping high quality under 15 minutes.
Interesting. It tears the slow layer up by the next speedy layer at 6:13 . Also if this thing is on your desk you better have everything mounted with screws and locktite.
So nice to see Bambu Labs hammering the hugely overpriced hyped up peddled shite that's Prusa and Ultimaker into the ground. About time for a needed shake up! I bought one A1 mini to try, saw the prints it produced and immediately bought two more. I love them. The quality of the prints is phenomenal. A P1S is going to be my next purchase. I've been down the Ultimaker path (two UM2+) and the Prusa path and there's no comparison with the Bambu offerings. It really is going from the stone age into the space age. Well done Bambu labs!
This printer is so god damn CHEAP considering the performance you can expect... and that the multi material thingy WORKS and I hear is very reliable... it's just crazy what Bambu Lab has done...
2 layer shifts . And with a technical Eye the Printer will have allot of parts that will need to be replaced in a short while of use . This will make the life of the printer shorter only because Bambu is pressing too much on speed . Looking at the start way to much Filament gong to waist before it starts printing . And the Auto level option only makes users Lazy and it takes way to much time . Overal conclusion nice to see its possible yet its a bad printer to buy .
I've been using a Prusa MK3S+ for the past 2 years. I just got my Bambu X1C 3 days ago; they're both awesome machines but I'm digging the X1C! I've printed many benchies and of course my first print with the X1C was the 20 minute benchy that was preloaded on the machine. Although the speed of it is very impressive, it also happens to be the worst benchy I've ever printed (even TPU on the MK3 was better lol). That being said, the X1C did it in only 20 minutes where the MK3S+ takes almost 2.5 hours HAHA
You can do it your Slicer,,, just rotate the Benchy so the bow is facing the front of you printer, and the use the "Seam" settings so it puts the seam at the front of the printer,,, Bingo all done
Because Bambu and a lot of other 3D printer manufacturers always cheap out on cooling and use the smallest/cheapest they can find. It's the main reason why a custo fan duct is one of the most popular upgrades for most printers. Even just a 6030 or dual 5015 setup running at 30-40% would make this one silent.
If decibels is a concern don’t get a 3d printer. This in appears to not be as loud as X1C for motor and driver noise but you will always have around a 55db blower fan at 1 meter it 3 feet away.
@@joescalon541 "If decibels is a concern don’t get a 3d printer" People need to stop this stupid statement. Obviously they won't be 100% silent, but there are definitely 3D printers that are way too loud. On top of that you can defintely have a very quiet 3D printer if you want to. Use a fanless power supply or a meanwell lrs 350 with automatic fans, replace mainboard and hotend fan with noctua and use a dual 5015 blower for part cooling which then only have to run at like 30% speed.
@kwedl exactly, i made my Ender 3 Pro like this. I had to swap out the board for a silent one, too. I can barely hear anything apart from a very slight fan noise
my ender 3 v2 produces the same quality print but 4x slower and more to setup and manually recalibrate. i like bambulab's user friendly and convenience features. i will get A1 mini and then p1s.
On bambu's product announcement page they said this follows the speed bench rules. In prusa's mini video prusa admitted not following those standard rules
@@Henry-gv8gj i have 2 ender 3 v2s heavy modded with klipper and yet i cant make them work plug and play because every time i set them up right something going loose or changes mid print mostly because still i dont have linear rails on them
The pre-sliced 3D Benchy of the A1 Mini Combo.
Full review of the printer available here: 3dprintbeginner.com/bambu-lab-a1-mini-and-ams-lite-review/
Printer Link (aff): shrsl.com/4kq13
were you using 166% speed for this? Or what else was done besides press print on the stock benchy that comes with the a1 mini?
@@tinywhoopfan I mean most likely, it looks very fast
@@acombo This is not very fast. Most new corexy printers do a sub 10 minute benchy these days
That first layer was satisfying AF
And when it slowly started to bridge the roof pillars together.
This video was one of the main reasons I pulled the trigger on the A1 to upgrade from my ender 3. It just came today, I finished the setup and hit print. It's even more impressive in real life
same here! from ender 3 pro to a1 mini
@@xalex7923 from nothing to a1 mini yesterday and it was amazing it fast it quite but i set the speed to 50% because it going too fast my desk vibrate like crazy.The model print fine still and easy to setup
@@xalex7923 haha and same here, from ender 3 to A1 mini, it arrives in 4 days
@@t_casadio1164 I have done some prints and it's night and day! It does every calibration, etc, automatically and the prints are awesome, you wont regret it
Same here, I got the Ender 3 for by Birthday. After couple months of 3D Printing stuff and always ending up having to constantly manually level the bed. I had enough and just but the A1 now, coming next week. The vids I saw so far are out of this world for how amazing this 3D printer can become.
Prusa have rested on their laurels for years and now they're paying the price. This is going to eat into their marketshare massively.
yep. I delayed buying a new Prusa for a while to research Bambu, I am glad I did, I love my X1C
YEP, we running 15 Prusas, but a new MK4? We got two P1S for one MK4 and there faster and save energy with the enclosure
@@marinamarinx7655Are you sure they are faster? The MK4 with input shaper prints similarly fast as the P1P.
Nope, anyone with a print farm will stick with Prusa for reliability and consistency over speed alone.
However, if you do a lot of prototyping or are a hobbyist, I can see Bambu taking over some marketshare.
@@stlbullet You say that, buy I used to work in a top UK university and they switched to BBL, my friends at a quantum computing company switched to BBL, most people I know are switching over slowly. I love prusa support, but feature list alone, it's not worth it to me.
Bambu doesn't disappoint! They are going to force some accountability on other manufacturers to up their game or get out of the arena!
I mean look at that tiny thing, its 18cm each dimension for 500 bucks + shipping. My Ender 5 Pro has 25 XY and 30 Z for LESS, even after upgrading with ABL.
Its like saying Tesla is forcing some accountability on Dacia with the Model S Plaid. As soon as say push these really nice machines out for the price of the cheap manufacturers like Creality, they will THEN force some accountability. Same size, same price, but Bambu Tech behind the device. Until then its "just" a premium printer for premium customers, while casuals like me will stay with their 300 buck printers.
@@Sena121You would have to add a Pallete to your 5s price to make it a valid comparison. Without the ams lite this is a 300 Bucks printer.
@@Sena121 wrong facts.
The car comparison is also a bad one. A vehicle is a vehicle. The result between these isn't very differnt if you focus on the job it has to do.. You get from point A to point B. In a safe manner. And some have to show off their money. Waste their money on holes in brake disks etc. But driving a Dacia isn't that much worse than driving a Tesla. Imagine people drive cars for centuries and they were all good.
But when it comes to printers, the result (quality/time/price/usablility/reliability/noise.....) matters most. It's not a device to brag about. Sure you can buy a Ender5 Pro but A) the outcome (actual print) will not be as good and B) the handling is not as good. The printers are constantly evolving. The A1 Mini is reaching out for perfection, much more than any other printer.
Just look at the Prusa XL..... it's a disaster. On this printer you have to pull and feed every filament manually.. Some have extruder problems. It's loud and slow. And the prints aren't even perfect. The Software isn't there, the display is sad, the price too high, the construction (stability) questionable.
@@REDxFROG I stopped here: " But driving a Dacia isn't that much worse than driving a Tesla."
I see you have never driven a Dacia (i had a Sandero I with NOTHING in it, this thing was a shitbox of doom, i loved that little Shitbox) or a Tesla (guess what i did ;) ) to compare. Therefore your whole argument cant be fitting, therefore i do not need to read it :)
@@crowguy506 Ok, i give you this point, i havent seen that the 500 Bucks are the price of the whole bundle. But is the printer alone really worth it? I mean he is ootb, and my ender 5 pro is a shitbox i by now havent fully calibrated, but its fairly small, isnt it?
I used to be skeptical about low-price 3D printing, but now Ive embraced cantilever printing. Its fascinating how technology evolves.
even entry-level printers produced similar results a few years ago, just a lot slower
I do not like how the layers look here, could have been better.
Cantilever can be as good as you want and even better than corexy. At the end of the day it's all about tolerances
@@eugenetaranov4549bruh now that's some massive cope 💀
@@GeneralKenobi69420I agree with you master trollnobi
@@eugenetaranov4549 Me either, but to be fair, it took 13 minutes. You could get much better results if you slowed it down.
Perfect as addition to my X1C and P1P. This is the end of the relationship to my endless stringing Prusa Mini
HAHA I have a mini too and the stringing is so relatable so I’m getting an X1C as an upgrade 😀
this is comically fast
Indeed! I was laughing when I saw it xD
the world record is 2 minutes :p
@hypo382 and it looked like poopoo
In a $200 printer!
It's so funny to see how that little thing does what it does.. slowly calibrating everything.. and after that... yeah.. :D
this machine seems by features and just looking at the sturdy build-engineering in a completely different category than anything else even double its price. i am so curious how other manufacturers will react to this. it will take insane efforts to come close or surpass bambu. no idea how they managed to leap so much harder than all the others...
At double of its price you have proper 3d printers with CoreXY mechanics. This floating design is the cheapest there is, but they managed to make it premium. I wouldn't pay 500 euros on a machine like this, sorry.
@@vhateg
good because its not even 500 euros
@@vhateg of course you won't, it's 299.
180x180
No thanks. That's incredibly small.
Even crappy ender 3s are 220x220
Bambu flipped the entire industry on its head and is the most amazing technology and competition that we need.
amazing tech? i didn't know amazing tech steppers and their drivers are so loud
this is competition that is 100% not needed because companies like bambu lab will move 3d printing further away from open source and eventually 3d printers will become like regular printers closed source and unrepairable. what expect from chinese company
@@epites-thegodSo why people like to use iphone? I never know Apple design IOS as open source😅
@@akakakakakak3084 what the hell are you woffling about you muppet. before you decide to answer, read and try to understand my comment. real example of apple brainless consumer over here
Open source or closed source - what matters is what saves people time.
I own 2x x1c and 1x mini, and everyone I know has bought Bambu printers in the last year. A solid product is a solid product.
This is _crazy_ fast! Some of those travel moves are so fast I literally can hardly see the movement.
After watching this video my 3D printer is like: "I'm in danger!" :)). I'm very impressed by the speed and the close up view of the machine. Now I understand why the name "Bambu Labs" is not just branding. At least this printer looks very very lab like equipment and a bit sci-fi. And with the risk of getting hated, if a American or European 3D printers brand launched this, I would probably cost like $3999.
the speed is... for a printer this size... obscene. My printer is very old but damn... didn't know there were small printers thisdamn fast
yep. because american and european brands does not run on money of chinise govverment...
Check RatRig V-Minion
i just looked it up, its 239!!
Its not about hate. It's the fact. EU nor US companies can't compete with Chinese one. Even Tesla vs BYD. What do you do? Give money to China company rather than to your local one ? Just because it's cheaper? Come on.
All of that automatic calibration makes me want to buy a bambu. Especially the nozzle wipe on the brush.
Cool! It both print fast and make soudeffects for kung fu movies at the same time
I have been waiting for this day for a long time. On my relic it takes......wait for it....wait for it.....117 minutes!
Well, you can enable cheat mode by only printing only 1 wall, 3 top layers all in x-direction, infill only in 1 x-direction with go-nuts speed. Just finished a perfect 3d benchy on my old Ultimaker 2 with more sane infill, wall and top layer settings. According to klipper history it took exactly 1 hour and 13 minutes.
@@atoomnetdon't they run Marlin or something stock?
@@BH4x0r ulimaker stock is a customized Marlin version 1. I have upgraded mine to klipper.
Thats hecking fast but holy heck that purge blob was also massive.
You can limit that in the software I believe, not sure why this person did not, especially with a single color.
That purge is only for multicolour, the user did not set it for single colour purge.
@@swapnilmankame actually the purge was when it was calibrating the flow rate. It does it on single colour prints too, if you enable it before it starts printing.
That is just it figuring out the flow rate before printing, it generally doesn't use too much. But Bambu also has settings for when you're doing multi-color where you can print the "waste" that would be made when switching colors into the infill or supports of the model, or you can set it to print a seperate item on the plate with the "waste" when it goes to change colors, great for things you're going to paint anyway.
Yep. I've had my P1S for about a week, same print speed, flippin' amazing!
I was contemplating between two minis or the p1s. Decided to go with the p1s but this looks good 👍
it's twice the build plate volume and 3x the build volume, so i would say that was a safe bet 😅
even if having two machines at times will be twice as fast, you'll also have an enclosed printer that can print a wider range of materials
@MrHeHim that's what sold me. I've never gotten into printing tpu, abs, asa. I'm excited about that mostly.
Need the enclosure of P1S as well as dust protection for the days not printing…
I have an Ender 3 s1 pro and I'm gonna get this lil machine for Christmas. I'm so excited
Reliability should be a top priority in 3D printing
Must be why my Prusa MK3+ sucks. Has had more things wrong with it ever since I bought it. Prusa printers are 100% total worthless overpriced garbage.
Reliability and ease of use are pretty much all I care about when buying 3d printers now. I don’t want to have to mess with manual bed leveling and I want it to print well every time. It’s possible Bambu have proven that.
@@TheNature101 Have a farm of 10 MK4s and rarely have any issues, you may have just gotten unlucky.
What is it doing at 0:16 that rising buzz - what is that?
Resonance measurements for inputshaper calibration
Fan calib i think
It is vibrating calibration
Basically if it needs to print 0.5mm thick line on 0.4mm nozzle it can vibrate instead of moving
The A1minis touchscreen interface makes it user-friendly~
I like the start G-code, it's got all the bells and whistles
just got my A1 with ams lite, I printed their free downloadable top mount for the ams which included braces to make the z axis more rigid, this thing is insane, best $550 I've ever spent
I have an X1C (and love it so hard) I want to recommend the A1 or A1 mini to anyone starting out.
really good that's for sure I'm getting one when preorders are available.
same, hopefully they ship prety fast too
Is that first layer for real ! From a creality user, that speed is crazy.
Amazing quality, no stringing, extremely fast, a dream of an Ender 3 user (like me)...
With a little bit of DIY magic to enclose it, this would be the perfect prototyping machine for a 3D enthusiast engineer
Do not enclose these machines, they are not meant to be enclosed
@@liamdj6535 The only risk enclosing it is the mainboard and PSU lack active cooling properly. This can be mitigated in DIY work.
its so loud tho
My friend has one of those, and BOY does it outstand my Ender 3 Pro, that has a CR touch and klipper running.
Does the printer do the calibration before every print?
You can choose if you want to start it or not
@@3DPrintBeginner
Hi,
I have an A1 Mini, and with the same file from its memory, the printer shakes like crazy. My A1 Mini shakes like hell, just like yours in the video. Is this normal, or do you have a bad desk too? I'm not sure if the A1 is more stable than the A1 Mini, but do you have any advice on how to make it more sturdy or how to set up a good sturdy desk?
Thanks for sharing!
I just picked up the A1 mini to add to my desktop for part testing. I printed this benchy and could not believe how much the printer skated across the desk while moving printing. What have you done others done to keep this guy from sliding off the desk?
Can you set the amount of filament extrusion before the actual print? Its so much filament poop each time 🙃
Yes you can set it in the slicer
Idk why this person Did that for a single color print, maybe flow rate calibration
Thank you!
This video was from 11 months ago. Did they give you options to set how much purge filament? That looks way excessive. My current printers don't purge that much but the prints still come out good. Letting the user decide how much would be nice.
Yes you can change how much it purges. The a1 mini has active flow compensation so it’s also calibrating how much filament is fed :) it’s about 1g
Does it do those several things (non printing stuff) before every print?
Not before every print, and its for calibration
@@leproassula3029I got one now and you can choose not to check bed or filament flow but to get rid of vibration test you need to edit the code in the printer which i did.
I want to buy one, but I'm very worried about the atmosphere in which I'm putting it?' If I put it in my room and adapt a suitable job for it to complete the printing of the model
Just bought the p1s for my small business and already excited to buy a mini next!
May I ask what your business is? I'm on the idea stage atm, and looking for, well ideas. Will not copy, promises! 👼
I am ditching my core x y Monoprice maker for this bed slinger...how the times change.
Current #SpeedBoatRace WR is 1:59 minutes. Not compared to this quality, though 🤪 … but I wonder how this printer would place if pushed to maximum speed.
Does your table need to be bolted to the ground?
I have this printer and if I limit acceleration to something like 5-8m/s then no. I have it quite well built wooden TV cabinet, with 10m/s acceleration it already starts moving a bit and sometimes it matches resonance frequency of the table so it's loud. Also vibrations are transferred by parquet floor to my PC table and mouse cursor can shake by a pixel or two as it registers movement of fraction of millimeter. Maybe putting in on iron tile and layer of gravel and sand would help (inspired by railroad tracks or some vibration damping floors). And printer weights like 6kg. I would not put it on table with four flimsy wooden legs.
This is engineering at its peak
I have an A1 combo on order and will get here next week.. I still can’t fathom how those ludicrously fast movements can equate to precise lines. It just doesn’t compute in my brain.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing it in person in a few days 😅
Well I’ve had it now for 5 months give or take and this thing is simply amazing. 500 print hours more or less, I can’t recommend it enough. Part of me wishes I went for the enclosed printer for printing nylon and more exotic filament but if you’re on a budget stick with the A1 for anything multicolor and save up for a P1S without the AMS combo. That’s my $0.02 anyway. Incredible machines.
Just got my Ender 3 v2 out of hibernation and after spending forever getting it perfect, I think it can go back in to hibernation and be replaced by the A1 🤣 These print speeds are crazy.
and this is the entry level?
yeah.
What was going on before 3:04 ??
It purges out a small line of filament as a final precaution to ensure that the printer is ready for well, printing.
My bear is crying quietly on the sidelines
got the mini as well, beast of a machine for its size and price. you cant find better deal under 200$USD.
I’m torn between getting another ams or just buying the a1 a whole dang printer for cheaper, I hate having these problems .😂
2:41 LOADING!... LOADING!...FIRE!!!
What are the print settings used here. I just ordered one of these and want to try this as a benchmark!
I think I paid more for my S1 pro/plus when I bought it used, and this machine makes my Ender look like a toy!
Spettacolare, velocità e qualità!
so what's the reason for such big poops before the print starts? a bit would be enough or am i wrong? why so much?
That's the auto calibration for the Flow Dynamics. You can turn it off and it will not purge as much
Flow Dynamics calibration, basically like linear advance/pressure advance in Marlin / Klipper but it does it all by itself
@@3DPrintBeginner i still dont get it, the extruder gear turns, plastic gets pushed through the nozzle, the purpose of the purge is to clean the nozzle, but why so much?
Are we sure the video is not speed up.. At 2m 40s the filament moments are a bit odd. Also the benchy is not done until 15:40, so to say it prints it under 13m is a bit of stretch.
I think its just the plastic being extruded so much, that it starts push itself out the side. The print itself starts at 3:00
Can you change the G code to add these kinds of upgrades or is Bambu just that GOATED?
A lot depends on the systems and printers from the bambu Lab company. Of course, many things are simply better in Bambu Studio or Orca slicer.
@@Kevin-gj5es Thanks sounds cool!
My Ender 3 just fainted
My Ender 3 fainted again
Ender 3 will be forever the best learning platform. But mine fainted too.
My ender 3 basically is basically on life support💀⚰️
Lol my ender 3 only dreams of these speeds
Bambu is putting every 3d printer company out of business
Then why are prusa/creality/anycubic/quidi/etc all still in business and thriving.
Spoken like someone who has never looked at or used any printers other than Bambu. Bambu is basicly just taking ideas from other companies and make them look nicer and then market them towards a more "casual" audience.
@@kwedl ...and solving many of the pain points that have kept people away from 3d printing. these guys are doing game changing work here.
@@snart I'm not saying that they are not making good printers or that they are not good for beginners. Obviously they are, but they are definitely not putting other companies out of business.
Without other companies they wouldn't even exist.
Also your statement might apply to a lot of printers from a few years ago, but nowadays even the budget Ender 3 series or pinter like the M5 etc. are all fully automated and "idiot proof". The people who still struggle with 3D printing thesedays or think that adjusting 2 settings in a slicer is too complicated can't be helped.
@@kwedlEnder being idiot proof… its a budget printer that always had quality issues.
Wow this is so fast, my Ender 3 prints in slow motion, lol
What is that background noise, sounds like a vacuum or Air Purifier?
Do you guys use a Air Purifier for the melting smell of the filament?
If you print multi color, does it slowdown alot?
The background noise is the part fan. It’s very powerful and thus not quiet.
Pla shouldn’t really smell burnt. I recommend printing at 210°C to prevent pla from burning.
The AMS lite unit that comes in the combo of this printer works very fast compared to others and does not take long switching materials
I have four x CX1's and waiting for Mini. Two of of my U S5's are just colecting dust and are still brand new. Using Bambu printers one will never go back to other printers. But one never know???
At about 12:57 on benchys I see an issue quite often with my bridge not acting correctly. It spaghettis off the roof, any reason for that? I get beautiful prints no issue but only had 2 perfect benchies out a good few.
Your plastic might be a little too hot or the printer is too slow. Either one will make the filament come out and soften in the wrong spot
Hi, how can I get the pre-sliced benchy gcode ? I've searched it everywhere but can find one that the Bambulab A1 use. I'am interested to know how bedslinger could achieve this speed.
U can use the 3mf File from MakerWorld (Bambu's own Place for pre-sliced Objects). The first (Green) "Benchy" with the Second Profile is like the pre-sliced from the Printer itself.
Why does it waste so much filament at the start?
its intentional to make sure the filament is being fed at the nozzle and clear any debris from last print. Its not really a lot of filament. I have the P1S and it does the same thing. small price to pay for a good print
@@yang8155on the A1/Mini it also auto calibrates linear advance/pressure advance
That's ludicrous. My heavily modded and tuned Ender 3 Pro would be hard pushed to match that quality in 50 minutes
Why wasting so much filament before printing?? @2:20
Automatic flow rate calibration. You can turn it off if you want
IT EVEN HAS A STEERING WHEEL!!!
LMAO
I guess the outer wall is still at a regular speed, not to be opossed to this great advance in 3d printing but still needs improvement for a REAL high speed printing.
What do you mean by “real” high speed printing? If you want those 1500mm/s speeds, have fun building a machine all on your own part after part after part. 500mm/s is “real“ high speed printing, especially for a 300$ bed slinger
This is real high speed printing. 13 min benchy at high quality is ridiculous for a bed slinger, let alone a $300 bed slinger. Even my voron has trouble keeping high quality under 15 minutes.
Interesting. It tears the slow layer up by the next speedy layer at 6:13 . Also if this thing is on your desk you better have everything mounted with screws and locktite.
So nice to see Bambu Labs hammering the hugely overpriced hyped up peddled shite that's Prusa and Ultimaker into the ground. About time for a needed shake up! I bought one A1 mini to try, saw the prints it produced and immediately bought two more. I love them. The quality of the prints is phenomenal. A P1S is going to be my next purchase. I've been down the Ultimaker path (two UM2+) and the Prusa path and there's no comparison with the Bambu offerings. It really is going from the stone age into the space age. Well done Bambu labs!
This printer is so god damn CHEAP considering the performance you can expect... and that the multi material thingy WORKS and I hear is very reliable... it's just crazy what Bambu Lab has done...
The multicolor is called the ams lite
Note: the buildplate can be bent to remove the model 😉
6:14 bad spot because of a to high print speed .
Speed is cool jet still not the way to go good work takes time .
So nope this is not good
2 layer shifts .
And with a technical Eye the Printer will have allot of parts that will need to be replaced in a short while of use .
This will make the life of the printer shorter only because Bambu is pressing too much on speed .
Looking at the start way to much Filament gong to waist before it starts printing .
And the Auto level option only makes users Lazy and it takes way to much time .
Overal conclusion nice to see its possible yet its a bad printer to buy .
@@uvrmaliveatsea7246 "makes people lazy" lmao
I've been using a Prusa MK3S+ for the past 2 years. I just got my Bambu X1C 3 days ago; they're both awesome machines but I'm digging the X1C! I've printed many benchies and of course my first print with the X1C was the 20 minute benchy that was preloaded on the machine. Although the speed of it is very impressive, it also happens to be the worst benchy I've ever printed (even TPU on the MK3 was better lol). That being said, the X1C did it in only 20 minutes where the MK3S+ takes almost 2.5 hours HAHA
HOW IS IT SO FAST?!?!?!😮
That is quite fast
What’s a rough material cost of producing that item
imma buy this as soon as i can
what temperature is the hotend set at?
i have only been able to get this to print 1 time. every other job i try always just fails
help how does it print so fast too??
That benchy was a custom seamline at the front. Where can I get that model?
You can do it your Slicer,,, just rotate the Benchy so the bow is facing the front of you printer, and the use the "Seam" settings so it puts the seam at the front of the printer,,, Bingo all done
Why does it waste some much filament extruding in the beginning? Why not just a little bit?
How is it that a prusa mini can run a benchy in the same time while also not sounding like a jet taking off?
They're both probably running custom sliced gcode so it doesn't make much sense to compare them directly.
prusa mini's cantilever swinging up and down cannot be saved.
Because Bambu and a lot of other 3D printer manufacturers always cheap out on cooling and use the smallest/cheapest they can find. It's the main reason why a custo fan duct is one of the most popular upgrades for most printers.
Even just a 6030 or dual 5015 setup running at 30-40% would make this one silent.
That's cause Prusa mini can not. Prusa mini is 100% pure garbage.
I really like the bambu stuft
Imagine showing this to someone from before the 1900s.
Can you print with 2 colors without the ams on the a1?
i think so but you'll need to manually load/unload the filament
@@powerpc64 thanks! I bought the A1 mini combo and I'm amazed with what this thing can do lol.
Is this standart mode? It looks similar to the x1c in ludicrous mode
No it's not the normal speed. The result is just plain ugly. It's just supposed to show what's possible when it's all about speed
@@Kevin-gj5esits not ugly the benchies look ra
Really good
Thanks but what's the decibel level at this speed ? it's very important for me please.
If decibels is a concern don’t get a 3d printer. This in appears to not be as loud as X1C for motor and driver noise but you will always have around a 55db blower fan at 1 meter it 3 feet away.
@@joescalon541 "If decibels is a concern don’t get a 3d printer" People need to stop this stupid statement. Obviously they won't be 100% silent, but there are definitely 3D printers that are way too loud.
On top of that you can defintely have a very quiet 3D printer if you want to. Use a fanless power supply or a meanwell lrs 350 with automatic fans, replace mainboard and hotend fan with noctua and use a dual 5015 blower for part cooling which then only have to run at like 30% speed.
@kwedl exactly, i made my Ender 3 Pro like this. I had to swap out the board for a silent one, too. I can barely hear anything apart from a very slight fan noise
What parameters in slicer? hight infill etc ??
my ender 3 v2 produces the same quality print but 4x slower and more to setup and manually recalibrate. i like bambulab's user friendly and convenience features. i will get A1 mini and then p1s.
You didn’t speed this video up at all?
this is ludicrous mode, search it up
This is just obscene how fast this is
speedboatrace rules? or prusa fake?
says presliced so you can ignore the whole thing :)
Fake. Prusa mini runs a benchy in the same time.
On bambu's product announcement page they said this follows the speed bench rules. In prusa's mini video prusa admitted not following those standard rules
Why it slow down when in outer layer
benchy stl link with parameters?
HOW
As someone with a Wanhao I3, this reminds me of that scene from WALL-E where the scout ship lands
that is SCARY fast😳
Its insane to see that on a stock 300€ printer :O Times changed
That's what I was thinking. Ender 3's used to be what I recommended to beginner printers. Now it's this. Sorry ender, but your run is over...
@@davidgesellender 3s are still half the cost of this machine
both still have their place
@@Henry-gv8gj i have 2 ender 3 v2s heavy modded with klipper and yet i cant make them work plug and play because every time i set them up right something going loose or changes mid print mostly because still i dont have linear rails on them
@@Gizmadin it's almost like Linux vs a Mac... hah
yeh some beginners cant justify spending this much so have no choice but to still buy an ender 3 @@davidgesell
Why does it purge so much at the start?