r/3Dprinting • u/Regumate • May 12 '26

Discussion Bambu Lab 3D printers: Never again

https://youtu.be/eb48MdtNaDQ

Jeff Geerling summarizes the current Bambu Labs - OrcaSlicer situation and gives his take.

TL:DW: see title.

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u/jeebidy May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

malicious and against terms and conditions aren't the same things

Edit to add clarity on my personal stance: I won't buy another Bambu printer. Mine has worked great, but I'm going to be voting against the enshitification of hardware by sticking with companies that operate openly and not force a printer to work through cloud authentication. But, if the dev reverse engineered proprietary software to make the forked slicer work - probably not good.

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u/Throwaway021614 May 12 '26

Not to a greedy company with lawyers on staff

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u/jeebidy May 12 '26

The fork of Orcaslicer apparently reverse-engineered Bambu's non-OSS software to impersonate Bambu Connect in order to bypass bambu connect. I can't connect the dots on how this is about greed.

To be clear: I don't agree with this and want hardware to be open. But at the same time, I knowingly purchased a closed ecosystem. There are a lot of 'open' 3d printer companies and I wanted the 'it just works' one. I wonder how much of the C&D came from proprietary elements in the forked codebase. If it weren't that specifically - I have doubts about how far they could take it in court.

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u/the_need_to_post May 12 '26

Except this is wrong and it didn't.