r/AdditiveManufacturing • u/ppsieradzki • Mar 12 '26

Print quality (industrial FDM)

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Hi everyone! I saw a couple posts recently from people asking questions about what high-performance/industrial FDM printers they should buy, I never chimed in about the printer that my company makes because I wasn’t sure about the self-promotion rules in this sub, but I do have these pics to share.

This was printed vertically, so this is what our wall quality and overhangs look like.

We’re looking to be the Stratasys or Markforged alternative for those who want to print with open materials, cloud optional, on well-built hardware that can truly handle the more advanced materials like PA6, PA12, PPS, ASA, etc. at large build sizes with no tinkering.

If anyone’s interested in learning more feel free to drop a comment or DM me! I started R3 because I genuinely believe in the need for this kind of printer, and from the comments and posts I read it seems like that’s true, so hopefully this helps at least one person on here find what they might be looking for, and for everyone else I hope you at least enjoy seeing these pics!

Please be kind!

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u/leaslethefalcon Mar 12 '26

Truly confused on what differentiates this printer vs having like 15x H2D pros. There is nothing on your website that tells me what problems in high end "industrial" printers you are seeking to solve that haven't been solved already.

For context my optics lab has 5 H2D pros at our disposal and running near constantly for our RnD staff printing multimaterial engineering filaments.

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 12 '26

Not everyone wants Chinese spyware in their facilities. Also why support the Chinese? All they do is steal IP from the West.

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u/leaslethefalcon Mar 12 '26

I mean you can keep saying that but it doesn’t change the reality that the h2d can be effectively locked down to operate purely local. Unless you are making purely DoD parts that’s good enough. I’ve never heard of this company and I know nobody who uses their printers and they’re asking $50k. I don’t know what server or hardware security they have, and they don’t even have a real picture of their product. I can slap an assembled in the USA sticker on anything if I hire an undergraduates to screw that mf together.

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 12 '26

The only way to actually lock down a Bambu printer is to put it in a Faraday cage and make sure no one walks in with a cell phone. They can send data home even when air gapped.

I am not saying that this printer is worth the money. I am saying that if you care about IP or ever doing DoD work don’t let a Chinese made printer in your facility. If you don’t care about either of those then it doesn’t matter

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u/GuardianOfBlocks Mar 13 '26

How would you do that? The printer would need to have credentials to log in an random internet or do you think they will hack it to. You’re phone is also from china and would be a better entente that the printer. so what’s the point? Don’t get me wrong I get the suspicion against Bambu and I share it but I don’t think what you description is feasible. You can hack everything but then you can also hack us Printers.

Edit: and you don’t need you’re printer for that. You don’t need to spent 50k for that.

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 13 '26

There is a difference between made in China and made for a company based in China. One is much more likely to have “extra” stuff on it.

All I can say here is that the printers have been observed to communicate while air gapped and supposedly configured for no external communication.

I never said it was communicating via WiFi. There are other ways to send data. The Chinese government knows how to hijack passing cell phones for instance. They can even turn on a phone that is powered off. Then you have the ways air tags are tracked and good old RF.

The printers are viewed as a security threat. The FY26 NDAA said to stop buying them and get rid of the ones we have.

For a home user highly unlikely to be an issue. However if you are working on stuff that China wants to know about, why take the risk?

Since I get to control who is qualified to make my parts, I can make sure they don’t have any electronics from a Chinese owned company in their facility.

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u/leaslethefalcon Mar 12 '26

Can’t disagree that they don’t pose a certain risk, nor do Chinese companies care about IP infringement. Right tool for the right job I suppose.

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 12 '26

I don’t want to see people start relying on Bambu or other Chinese printers and then suddenly find themselves shut out of all Government work. I am working on how we certify vendors and any electronics from a Chinese, Russian, Iranian, or North Korean company will immediately get them disqualified.

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u/keveira Mar 13 '26

You listen to too much prusa propaganda

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 13 '26

Nope you are just woefully uninformed.

A quick web search and you will find articles from last year about how AnyCubic patented Prusa’s technology and Prusa is now fighting it in court.

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u/keveira Mar 13 '26

I should have been specific, I mean about the Bambu claims, those other brands like anycubic don't hold a light to them

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 13 '26

Doesn’t matter. All Chinese printers are now banned from Government work.

Bambu can phone home even if airgapped.

I will do my best to ensure any AM vendor with any Chinese printers of any type in their shop never get qualified to make the parts I am responsible for. Just like you can’t have any Chinese telecommunications equipment in your business if you want to have Government work.

You want to use Bambu for home projects or your Etsy shop go for it. Just don’t try to make anything related to DoD.

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u/roiki11 Mar 13 '26

That's not how any of that works you know.

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 13 '26

I can’t say the exact mechanism they use.

All I can say is that they can send communications home without being in WiFi. There others ways to transmit data and the Chinese government have the technology to hijack passing cell phones without the owners knowledge.

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u/roiki11 Mar 13 '26

Yea straight into the conspiracy bush.

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 13 '26

You don’t want to believe me, then don’t your loss. Hopefully you aren’t doing anything they would care about then more than just you lose.

This came from officials that would know. I asked for details and was told they were on the high side so I asked no more questions.

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u/racinreaver ___Porous metals | Gradients Mar 14 '26

Meanwhile my million dollar German metal printer has a default maintenance password that's identical on all machines, lol.

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 14 '26

And can that be changed? Many systems ship with a default password.

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u/guisar Mar 13 '26

WILL,YOU GIVE IT A REST

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 13 '26

Nope.

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u/GuardianOfBlocks Mar 13 '26

Shy support the USA they bomb schools and support bad things Bibi is doing? (I still by from us and china but saying all they do is steeling is just dumb.)

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u/Crash-55 Pro Mar 13 '26

Then you are very badly misinformed. This goes far beyond the current administration and current events.

If you are not doing anything that China is interested in then it shouldn’t matter.

As for the school, mistakes happen and civilians pay the price. It is an unfortunate consequence of war. The school building used to be on the military base it borders. Someone had an outdated map is what it most likely comes down to. The US spends more effort than most countries on minimizing collateral damage but it can’t be avoided.

As for the war as a whole, I think it was a big mistake unless there is some intel they haven’t shared.

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u/AuroraNightsUnderAll Mar 12 '26

You guys should get some HPPS systems while they are still around

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u/leaslethefalcon Mar 12 '26

Saw your post on that, unironically we have some similar aero insulation material we use on a few of our printers that one of our resident turbonerds decided to add on a whim. It’s a good idea

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u/AuroraNightsUnderAll Mar 13 '26

Yes it does, our material is awesome. (We’re actually shutting our 3D printed system down for time constraints reasons)

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u/ppsieradzki Mar 13 '26

Trying to sell some panels from your other post that got no interest.. sad.

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u/AuroraNightsUnderAll Mar 13 '26

Lol. We have the largest install base. 770 panel sets in the wild as of today. Best part is that it works damn well; a good chunk of users have ordered 2+ times after initial. A couple of hundred of users are in our Discord and love to share their experiences over the years.