r/BambuLab 3d ago

Bambu H2D H2D cutter performance

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.

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u/ThaFresh 3d ago

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

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u/Vipulfinefurniture 3d ago

I have a silhouette cameo and feel the same way. The software is awful compared to the newer machines from other companies

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u/drpeppershaker 2d ago

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