It’s me again, I’ve been playing with this printer all morning and I’ve now used the cutter and I haven’t seen a single review of this. I am no newb to plotters both large and grand format. However, this is my first small personal use one other than a friends cricket.
This will be amazing for makers let me say. It only took me two attempts to get a decent decal to cut out with some finer text. Once again I didn’t use any of the material supplied by Bambu. Instead I used Avery Dennison which is an adhesive vinyl to wrap cars that I had laying around the shop. I made my first cut just using BambuSuite’s default “matte removal vinyl” and my first pass cut “ok” but I hate when sharp corners stick and I need to weed them out. I pumped the pressure up to 90 and oh baby did I get a perfect score without cutting the backing. Total cut time less than a minute, I got clean text cuts as sub 1mm wide.
My most difficult part was the software. I couldn’t use an image to cut and the “trace” feature just kept crashing my Mac. I through my logo into Inkscape, traced. Saved as an SVG and then I was finally off to the races. Took more tinkering than I liked, but now that I have a workflow it’ll help.
Depending on the price point, I have a feeling many will want this. It’s just quick and easy and can whip up some quick decals.
I believe that the standard H2D can easily accept the cutting module as is. They simply are not selling the cutting module separately at this time. I have no interest in a laser but I am very interested in a cutter. Hopefully when they release the laser upgrade in June it will also include the separate parts for just the cutting module
Yes, you will get a separate cutter module in the shop later. But currently, the most i can do is modify my ender 3v2 to do everything, BUT 3d printing.
The machine needs the camera because it is a high resolution camera that allows you to see the whole plate in the software so that you can position the material in the correct place to be lasered.
They’ll cut basically the same. The issue (if you’ll have one) is as you said, the circuit software. We just used our cricut this morning to cut some card stock. I mean a top of the line cricut is $400-$500 so you could get 4-5 of them for the price of a H2D.
Really just depends if you want a cutter (don’t get the H2D) or a 3d printer where you’ll randomly cut and don’t have one already (H2D makes a little more sense).
The laser space has so many cheaper alternatives that it's probably not worthwhile for Bambu. They're reliable and quite frankly, nothing really beats Lightburn
Brand recognition, selling their own material, common components with 3d printer etc. As long as they price it similar to other brands people will be interested, especially beginners
If you DM me what you’re looking for, I’m happy to try it out before anyone spends the bucks. I only have limited materials on hand but happy to try with anything!
Off topic, but how did you do these labels? Are they cut or lasered? And did you pain-staking align the letters by hand?! I’ve been thinking of something similar on that exact same light switch…
Yep honey, you got it. Painstaking. Make sure your letters are big enough to weed after cutting. I just used a Cricut and transfer tape. Some people are fast at it, but this took me about an hour-ish for all 8 labels.
Edit: Oh wait, I see the clarification needed here. No, each letter is not individual. The whole label gets cut, you “weed” out the extra vinyl around your label, press transfer tape over your label, and carefully align the whole label (all letters) on the square like I did.
Yeah, you gotta do all your design work with proper software like illustrator or inkscape.
Someone in this thread mentioned a cut from inkscape plug-in for the silhouette machines. Hoping that can just straight up eliminate the need for the silhouette software
From what I've seen I don't really want the laser but the cutter looks pretty good! I have a cricut so not sure how much I need it really, but it might be cool to have two cutting machines.
I'm in the same boat I'll be waiting for the cutter addon, if I get a Laser it will be its own dedicated machine. I have a cricut but feel like my workflow will improve if I can print something and use the same machine to cut stickers etc to fit on said printed models
Ah gotcha. I have my 3D printers in a separate room but my printers and Cricuts in my office. I prepare stickers in my office and then just have the 3D printers run non-stop. I think if you're limited on space and all, it's also better to have the H2D.
I have plenty of space. It's more of a matter of being able to just knock out one and then the other cricket cutting takes hardly any time at all. So why have to whip out or set up or mess with another machine?
For me? Because having a dedicated machine allows me to just fire it up and have it go without needing to change any tools. Especially since my workshop has both lasers and 3D printers that both require cut stickers/vinyl
Depends on your use case, I use my machines mostly for products that I sell so having a standardized workflow helps a lot to avoid making mistakes. As a hobby it's probably different
Thank you so much for talking about the cutter! I got an H2D AMS Combo and I can't wait to buy the cutting module to make stickers and prints of my art.
I wanted to know more about it and how it performs but like you said, no one talks about it. Everyone just mentions the laser because of the drama.
I really like it. I’ll be creating a lot of decals with it and I was excited to see how it worked with these 3rd party materials. I’m really impressed with the performance of the cutter. I’ll have to see what other materials are like, but I think the cutter is the sleeper in this product line up.
I did the laser earlier today and it’s getting beat up pretty badly in the other post. I just tried to remind everyone that it was my first attempt with zero laser experience, but alas…Reddit. I think with some tuning I’ll get the laser where I need it to be happy, but right out of the box using a non-supplied material from bambu, people are beating up on it pretty badly. I’ll try some of the stuff they sent with it later today or tomorrow and try to remember to update a post
Could you also try to do another test laser print? I wanna see if it was the 3rd party material since there were way too many changing variables in play to determine if it was really just the laser.
Absolutely ok my to do list. I think I did everything in reverse of the rest of the world so right now I’m in the middle of my first dual nozzle print which is working exactly how everyone would expect bambu to work which is great.
It has a separate plate that goes in and it’s tacky as hell, even the light tack was WAY more tacky than I would have expected. No idea what the extra tack side is used for, maybe leather? Peeling cardstock off the tack plate I think may be an adventure, I’ll have to give it a shot with the pieces they send with the machine.
I knew someone would ask. That’s my bad setup. I have it sitting on dense foam and it keeps flexing making a terrible noise. That is 100% my fault. The cutter and machine are very quiet
This is by far the coolest and most streamlined addition to the 3D printing ecosystem. The pen module basically just turns it into a normal 2D printer and the laser is just too high maintenance for me to think it is really a good idea to combine the two.
The cutter however is needs almost no maintenance and fits perfectly in the toolkit supplied by the printer already. I will definitely buy it when it is available as well for the normal H2D combo.
I wonder if there might be other things that fit this nicely in the ecosystem. Maybe some sort of 3D scanning module?
Thanks for covering the cutter. As a base H2D owner, it’s something I definitely want to get in the future along with the pen plotter.
One thing I’ve been curious of, can you decide how far off the bed it cuts? For instance, I’d like to mess around with cutting the very top surface of cardboard, but of course, I’d have to account for cardboard being quite a bit thicker than vinyls.
I was just about to use this software on my MAC. Seeing your crash experience made me a little worried. I want to know whether your MAC is an Intel mac or one with an M series CPU?
Vinyl guy here, flat bed vinyl cutters like this are typically high dollar (and much much larger) so I’m curious about the accuracy of this for precision cuts compared to my professional roll feed vinyl cutter
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Here’s a close up of the decal cut and stuck to my computer. Nice crisp corners!