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  • There are also still a lot of QoL issues with the GUI and no real attempt to bring in influences and widgets from direct modeling. FreeCAD is pure of heart and pure of thought, but I’m not sure I’m quite there, though I can at least imagine it now

    fyi, there is now ondsel
    based on FreeCAD, their release introduction reads:

    So our thinking was: we should focus on a polished user experience and features that are essential to professional use. Let’s build something we feel good about recommending it to someone working on a deadline. And let’s build a service for vaulting and collaboration.

    Our primary objective is to provide polish and sorely missing features — that’s a large part of the added value. We’ve made big and small changes in the upstream project, but the four vital projects for us have been toponaming, integrated assembly workbench, UX/UI, and collaboration.

    full Article / release notes

    So working exactly on what most consider FreeCADs weaknesses I’d say

    Unfortunately toponaming is still not done for either. That will be a huge leap in usefulness for me.
    (fixes models breaking when their topology changes)


  • Infill has massively diminishing returns. I don’t think 100% is required. Usually it’s much better to increase the number outer layers.
    That said, depending on the cost scaling, the possibly positive effects of extra mass, and how much I want to avoid a second attempt, massive objects can make some sense.

    PLA becomes brittle with moisture (from your hands and/or air). I would recomment PETG / ASA / ABS (ascending order).

    Yes, basically all CAD and slicers (3d-printer software) can mirror. PrusaSlicer for example can mirror and then save to stl again.



  • I don’t think it’s necesarrily nothing, as sending all of that data is so comprehensive it should be communicated clearly by bambu, and it seems (but I don’t know!) That it isn’t.
    Sometimes you might want/need help and don’t want to send everything.

    For a lot of stuff partial gcode / sensor data around the issue should suffice for example.

    But it sounded way worse before the clarification, when I understood that it was sending those logs all the time.

    The open source license issues will be interesting, but probably irrelevant. We already can be rather sure that they already are in violation with BambuStudio and no one wants to spend the money to do anything about it.



  • TheYang@lemmy.worldto3DPrinting@lemmy.worldPrusa or Bambu?
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    7 months ago

    The only thing I think the Mk4 is missing is a camera / octoprint support, but I can live without those.

    Firmware 5.1 enabled octoprint support.
    Not as far as they’d like, but it works. From memory what is missing is some support when Local and Octoprint mix (i.e. when you print locally, octoprint can’t stop the print. Bit annoying but far from a dealbreaker imho)