3D Printing Bambu Vs. Snapmaker V2.0

We are continuing our process of looking at ways to develop and improve the students ability to create and produce projects.    We have recently been very, very fortunate to purchase a Bambu H2D Printer for our projects to use and have started producing work with it.   

We are also continuing to use our Snapmaker machines to produce products and have looked at comparing the two, as we did with some of our recent prints.   We need to be reminding ourselves that the Snapmakers are machines that we are comparing are now four years old - against a new machine.

In this example these are two of the name plates are are being used as part of the Minecraft Nightlight - this is to address the personalisation of the design.     Again as with our other recent examples the two key comparison points for the designs are the print time and the rafting.    Both prints in this case were started at a near identical time - however the Bambu print was completed when the Snapmaker version had only completed 40%.

In the Snapmaker version shown left the rafting in between the lettering is close and dense.   In our experience particular care has to be taken to remove the internal rafting to ensure that the lettering itself is not removed, this is particularly challenging when dealing with fine details like the e and c.

In the Bambu version - shown as it was removed from the print bed there is much less rafting and what there is, such as the trees that are holding up the 'l' which form the second and third letter is able to be removed with a small pull using fingers rather than a specific tool.