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Bambu Lab announces the Vortek H2C, an automatic nozzle-changing version of the H2D (blog.bambulab.com)

submitted 1 week ago by TheRealKuni@piefed.social to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Seems like Bambu Lab has a new trick for reducing waste. Rather than a toolchanger like the Prusa XL or the Snapmaker, they're swapping just the nozzle. As far as I can tell from the video, the printer still has a second nozzle which won't swap in and out, meaning a print can be run with 7 nozzles (six from the Vortek system, plus the second nozzle in the toolhead). So if you're using 7 or fewer filaments, no pooping is necessary.

The cool bit here is that they're using wireless chips in the nozzles to communicate the thermistor data to the printer, so no pin-based connections are needed.

Pretty cool solution, I think. I assume you'd still need a prime tower, but that's a small amount of waste if they're eliminating poop from purging the nozzles.

I'm curious to see how they'll handle calibration, surely the nozzles aren't all going to be perfectly aligned all the time.

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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not sure about new build plates, but new filaments can absolutely be added within a slicer, including the BL slicer.

I'd also be really interested to see if a project like the X1 custom firmware is extended to more devices.

[–] SW42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes I’m sure they can. I’m talking more about the selection of the loaded material on the printer itself. Bambulab updated the list through firmware updates and so the slicer already loads the correct profile. It would be of course possible to load any material and set the correct profile in the slicer - but again it’s jumping through hoops.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Isn't that literally something BambuLab improved upon over every other printer though?

Edit: Also, you totally can on a firmware that works LAN-only before the changes, it's like the last version before them, at least for the A1-series.

[–] SW42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I bought tpu for ams. I cannot use it with the ams unless I upgrade the firmware because the stock one doesn’t let me use tpu with ams.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Not sure that project seems dead. I would like if they did an H2D version though.