Orca slicer is a fork of Prusaslicer

Yeah Bambu Studio is available and works fine on Manjaro (I’m too lazy to build arch from scratch nowadays), obviously ymmv on another distro.

Bambu firmware is closed source. I’m 100% happy with my Bambu, but that being said, Prusa makes amazing printers. However, like everything else, it comes with a price. Buying used is an option, just note you’ll ideally want to see it in person and printing before plunking down cash. As good as their printers are, you could still be buying someone else’s problem.

Totally agree on the core xy printers, I think OP was trying to keep cost under $500, so that would limit to P1P, but still a great printer, you can add the enclosure kit later if you want. I’m interested in the Sovol SV08, basically a Voron clone for $579 USD. I just don’t want to be the 1st on to try it 🤣

You can use OrcaSlicer, another Prusaslicer fork

I second Bambu printers. My P1S was as simple as taking it out of the box, pulling out the included accessories, take out three screws that keep the bed from moving during shipping, plug in cord. During setup it will run a self-calibration routine and you’re all set. I thought I liked tinkering with my Ender 3v2, but when I needed to print, a failure would cost me time, effort and money. Stick with the better printers if you can afford it.

Ngl that’s fucking genius

Yikes… possibly the heat block threads are deformed after all the torching and tightening? I assume you’re using brass nozzles so this shouldn’t be the case, but I’m as stumped as everyone else now.

Any suspicion of the heat cartridge failing? Might work long enough for a pid tune but not be able to maintain temp? I’d also look I to the extruder, once you put the nozzle on its working much harder.

I don’t know what it is with ender build plates but they only seem to last about 30-ish prints on the PEI side for me, switched to the glass side and glue stick with moderately better results

We’re gonna need a bigger benchy

Oh, we all need to tinker…

Tempted to do both. As much as I hated tinkering/fixing/breaking my E3V2 and the absolute bliss of my Bambu, the larger form factor, and having two of them is… going to kill my wallet.

It’s “mostly assembled” in a flatpack. Gantry is one piece, verticals are one piece, base is assembled w/wiring complete, top is assembled. No enclosure panels yet, says they’re supposed to be available “soon after launch”. Just a ton of screws to put in. The frame is custom, purpose built, not the normal 2020 extrusions used in a “real” Voron build.

I only got about 40-ish minutes into Nero3D’s “livestream” (it’s 3 hours long), but so far one of his complaints is that it’s a proprietary “Bambu type” quick change hotend, and not something that takes existing nozzles

Yeah the further I got into his video, he seemed to relent a little, saying he didn’t know what they (Sovol) were doing, but they (Voron team) refuse to work with / endorse anyone in a commercial kind of way. His initial statement early in that video was that they outright declined it though. Guess that’s the problem with unedited livestreams

Oh gotcha. I don’t know enough about the project members.

I’m watching Nero3d’s unboxing stream, he’s saying that Sovol offered donations but the Voron team declined it. Says he’s on the Voron team, but idk if that’s true or not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1DSXK5TmKE

Oooh… now the question is… build a voron, or wait for the Sv08 to become available…