Bambu Lab H2D

LadFromWales · 20 Apr 2025 at 13:59

Has anyone got the H2D with laser? How is it?

I've heard that a lot of cleaning is required after using laser before you can 3D print again.

Avalon · 20 Apr 2025 at 16:24

LadFromWales said:
Has anyone got the H2D with laser? How is it?

I've heard that a lot of cleaning is required after using laser before you can 3D print again.

As someone who did commercial laser cutting and engraving for two decades, under no circumstances do you want to combine laser and any other work type that requires cleanliness. Also cutting the wrong type of plastics can produce hydrogen cyanide gas (ABS), in general, the output in general needs to be filtered as it's just nasty.

Chaos666 · 20 Apr 2025 at 20:53

LadFromWales said:
Has anyone got the H2D with laser? How is it?

I've heard that a lot of cleaning is required after using laser before you can 3D print again.

better to get two separate machines...

VeNT · 23 Apr 2025 at 12:12

Avalon said:
As someone who did commercial laser cutting and engraving for two decades, under no circumstances do you want to combine laser and any other work type that requires cleanliness. Also cutting the wrong type of plastics can produce hydrogen cyanide gas (ABS), in general, the output in general needs to be filtered as it's just nasty.

I can see this being a problem in short order.
the scribe thing should be fine though. I see prusa already have an example worked up.

Avalon · 24 Apr 2025 at 11:34

VeNT said:
I can see this being a problem in short order.
the scribe thing should be fine though. I see prusa already have an example worked up.

I also did vinyl cutting, it's better from a cleanliness perspective, but over the sort of cutting area you have, it's really more of a gimmick than something useful - I tended to run 600mm rolls and run jobs that were anything up to 2-3m long. It does open up things like glass etching though and making stencils, but personally, i'd rather just buy a cutter and keep the workflows separate.

jammir · 27 Apr 2025 at 02:01

Is it normal for the H2D when it goes into sleep to still have fan noise?

daz.rathbone · 17 May 2025 at 23:40

Just ordered a H2D - I used a P1S combo for ages and loved it, but needed a heated chamber as I wanted to print more ABS and some eng filaments. Sold the P1S and bought a Qidi Plus 4. It's a good machine, but requires so much more work to set things up. Even after doing some of the mods and installing a Beacon3D onto it, no end of problems - after two months with it I've just lost all confidence. Tried a few times to leave longer prints running and almost everytime came back to destroyed prints at best, destroyed hotends at worst. Found myself pining for the P1S where I could comfortably leave a print running overnight. So the Plus 4 is going up for sale and hoping the H2D will bring the confidence/feel-good factor back for me

It ought to at the price it is!!

Captain Chaos · 23 May 2025 at 10:19

I was looking forward to the H2D but all in going to stick with my P1S combo, great bit of kit.

daz.rathbone · 23 May 2025 at 15:04

Captain Chaos said:
I was looking forward to the H2D but all in going to stick with my P1S combo, great bit of kit.

Yeah loved my P1S combo, until now the best printer I've had - it's what made me want to go back to BL.
I've had the H2D a couple of days now. 100% the right decision, superb printer. So far printed a pile of PETG, ABS, ASA, PA6-CF, PA6-GF, and TPU - hasn't skipped a beat (one fail on some PA6-CF which the AI caught - I didn't put any glue down as I wanted to see if I could get a failure to test the AI

). Got the AMS2 which is very nice, and an AMS HT on order... now to order a glacier plate and to persuade myself NOT to order a second AMS2.

jammir · 24 May 2025 at 20:34

daz.rathbone said:
Yeah loved my P1S combo, until now the best printer I've had - it's what made me want to go back to BL.
I've had the H2D a couple of days now. 100% the right decision, superb printer. So far printed a pile of PETG, ABS, ASA, PA6-CF, PA6-GF, and TPU - hasn't skipped a beat (one fail on some PA6-CF which the AI caught - I didn't put any glue down as I wanted to see if I could get a failure to test the AI ). Got the AMS2 which is very nice, and an AMS HT on order... now to order a glacier plate and to persuade myself NOT to order a second AMS2.

Ive done it in reverse, used to run Enders and would have issues on a daily base, got a H2D about a month ago and been in use pretty much 24/7 not had one issue, then got a 2nd ams pro, now the ams2 pro works with X1/P1 got myself two P1S AMS2 combos to speed up workflow.

daz.rathbone · 24 May 2025 at 20:44

jammir said:
Ive done it in reverse, used to run Enders and would have issues on a daily base, got a H2D about a month ago and been in use pretty much 24/7 not had one issue, then got a 2nd ams pro, now the ams2 pro works with X1/P1 got myself two P1S AMS2 combos to speed up workflow.

Yeah I've just caved and ordered a second AMS2 because, why not

Currently running the printer 24/7 printing the AMS Loft V2 off Makerworld (AMS stacker), then I'll run one into each nozzle, and when the AMS HT arrives that can also go into the right nozzle.
I did that little hinge multi material print (PETG and TPU) which turned out perfectly - it's given me a few design ideas for using different materials together now. Fantastic printer.

jammir · 24 May 2025 at 20:51

daz.rathbone said:
Yeah I've just caved and ordered a second AMS2 because, why not Currently running the printer 24/7 printing the AMS Loft V2 off Makerworld (AMS stacker), then I'll run one into each nozzle, and when the AMS HT arrives that can also go into the right nozzle.
I did that little hinge multi material print (PETG and TPU) which turned out perfectly - it's given me a few design ideas for using different materials together now. Fantastic printer.

Was gonna print some sort of stacker but would work out too high for me so ended up just putting them side by side.

arknor · 4 Jun 2025 at 16:18

3d printed ant nests seem like easy big profits if anyone is looking for ideas.

markets niche though, probably a total market value EU wide for ant keeping is like 3bil (chat gpt claims its a growing market)
only a fraction of that will be 3d printed nests.

but probably worth looking into

I literally just bought a 99mm (L) x 42mm (W) x 28mm 3d printed nest with 90% of it is 3d printed for 14.99 for example.
The white insert is PLA, IDK what the other material is.
the cost to design and 3d print must be almost nothing though?

I know the shop is using these exact same bambu labs printers as well. even a1 mini is capable of the tolerances needed to prevent even the smallest nanite ants from escaping.

only jank nests on amazon which was the first place I looked.

Where I ordered from has a big lead time as well so they must get enough customers.

took like 3 days for them to dispatch that, I have another order with them for quite a lot of stuff and that's been sat on confirmed for over a week.
they aren't using just 1 printer either its not someone in their bedroom, so even in just the UK there must be enough demand for it to be a business

Rilot · 12 Jun 2025 at 13:51

I printed a link piece to stick my two AMS together.

daz.rathbone · 13 Jun 2025 at 11:09

HT arrived the other week as well. This is my setup:

Rilot · 13 Jun 2025 at 12:53

I really like that stacked design. It's really clever the way you can slide the AMS out to load filament. I don't have the workbench space for it though and it would be too tall on top of the H2D.
How are you liking the HT? I see you have the Cryogrip plate there too. How is it?

daz.rathbone · 13 Jun 2025 at 15:08

Rilot said:
I really like that stacked design. It's really clever the way you can slide the AMS out to load filament. I don't have the workbench space for it though and it would be too tall on top of the H2D.
How are you liking the HT? I see you have the Cryogrip plate there too. How is it?

Cryogrip plate is excellent - I've had it on every printer I've owned and it's normally my go-to. I've tried it once on the H2D, and it was perfect as always, just not started using it as my main plate yet as the stock one has been spot on (and mostly functional prints so don't care about there being a bit more first layer texture

).
The HT is good. I didn't need it, but thought the price for a dryer that can reach 85c was worth it (plus, you know, keep it all in the ecosystem) hahah. Found a nice model to raise the HT up a bit with two drawers underneath (the drawers are what were printing when I took that pic), so it all looks very neat.

As much as I'd love to tinker with a laser, I've no real interest in putting one inside my 3d printer, but the cutter/drawing module, well I'm very keen to try that when they release the upgrade. Heard rumours of around the £70 mark, we will see.

Also I printed a design off MW for a vent that fixes to the rear exhaust. It uses a Tesla 3 HEPA/Carbon filter to further filter any nastiness. So far it's done a good job, not a single "smell" from ASA/ABS/PA6 since I installed it.
Oh and also build a nice little air quality monitor which is now sat behind the printer on the Skadis. Using an ESP32 CYD and a Sensirion SEN055 for PM1/2.5/4/10/VOC/NOx. Just in case the filter let's any escape.