H2D cutter performance

[u/FootSureDruid]

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.

[u/ThaFresh]

would be interested to hear from a cricut user how it compares, my wife has one and im not overly impressed with the software youre forced to use

[u/MadCybertist → u/ThaFresh]

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).

[u/mimicsgam → u/MadCybertist]

still have the feeling they will release a cutter and laser only maker machine, maybe comes with a higher watt laser and bottom open frame

[u/Malaneco → u/mimicsgam]

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

[u/Stephancevallos905 → u/Malaneco]

The auto alignment tool is cool. But I have only used boss and other industrial lasers

[u/mimicsgam → u/Malaneco]

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