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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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[–] Rexios@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you’re talking about the MMU3 it’s the same solution they’ve had for their other printers. The only “new” part is the mounting hardware for the Core One. I have one and it’s awesome, but it’s not new.

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

They announced that they were working on a new system that would depart from the MMU3 for the core one.

[–] Rexios@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for this? All I could find is information about the MMU3.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's mentioned in one of their official videos about the core one on their YouTube channel. They really should put it on their website in written.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

They might ditch that - they published photos of a Bondtech INDX and the Core One. It might be,that they ditch the MMU3 all together.