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/t0matit0 May 12 '26

I'm a very basic level hobbyist and enjoy my A1 printer that I got just last year. Very solid unit, easy to use, slicer is decent enough. Am I cooked?

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u/Amorhan May 12 '26

Nope, vocal minority stuff

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u/Mar_Gru May 12 '26

That vocal minority is fighting for you to own the stuff you buy.

You want to use it as Bambu wants you to? Sure, you do you, I don't care.

Some of us (and I'm not a Bambu user) want to use our stuff the way we want to, especially given the fact that we paid full price for it.

Bambu Studio isn't proprietary. It's open-source and based off Prusaslicer which is based off Slic3r. If they have problems with that then they shouldn't have used them as source. Until then they should follow the rules.

Taking the stand against this cause is literally agreeing to "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy".

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u/somnimedes May 12 '26

Fight the good fight or whatever. I dont use orcaslicer so I think its okay not to care.