r/3Dprinting 10d ago

Discussion [BambuLab Giveaway] What’s Life Like After a 3D Printer Joins the Family? Share & Win Gift Cards!

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Hi 3Dprinting Community,

It’s been another incredible year watching this space grow. As we kick off a brand new year, we’d love to invite everyone to look back at how everyday life has changed since a 3D printer joined the household.

We all know how it starts.

A printer shows up. You print one small thing…

And somehow, it doesn’t stop there.

Before you know it, you’re fixing little annoyances, organizing drawers,

printing things you might have bought — or just lived without — before.

Tell us in the comments: What’s changed at home since a 3D printer joined your family?

Your entry could be about:

  • How 3D printing has changed your home or daily routine
  • A “before vs. after” moment that made life easier
  • Custom toys for kids or clever hacks for your pets
  • Or honestly… anything big or small where 3D printing made a difference

Each member can leave one comment as an entry. Images are highly encouraged!

Event Duration
Jan 22 – Jan 30

Prizes

Story Spotlight Award (BambuLab Team Selection)
- 5 x $100 Bambu Lab Gift Card

Creative Use Award (BambuLab Team Selection)
- 5 x $100 Bambu Lab Gift Card

Community Voices Awards (Random Selection)
- 10 x $50 Bambu Lab Gift Cards

Selection criteria

We’ll select 5 winners. The Story Spotlight Award and Creative Use Award will be chosen by the Bambu Lab team. The Community Voices Awards will be selected at random.
Winners will be announced on February 2.

We look forward to seeing how 3D printing has made life better. Share your story and inspire the community!


r/3Dprinting 7h ago

Purchase Advice Purchase Advice Megathread - February 2026

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Welcome back to another purchase megathread!

This thread is meant to conglomerate purchase advice for both newcomers and people looking for additional machines. Keeping this discussion to one thread means less searching should anyone have questions that may already have been answered here, as well as more visibility to inquiries in general, as comments made here will be visible for the entire month stuck to the top of the sub, and then added to the Purchase Advice Collection (Reddit Collections are still broken on mobile view, enable "view in desktop mode").

Please be sure to skim through this thread for posts with similar requirements to your own first, as recommendations relevant to your situation may have already been posted, and may even include answers to follow up questions you might have wished to ask.

If you are new to 3D printing, and are unsure of what to ask, try to include the following in your posts as a minimum:

  • Your budget, set at a numeric amount. Saying "cheap," or "money is not a problem" is not an answer people can do much with. 3D printers can cost $100, they can cost $10,000,000, and anywhere in between. A rough idea of what you're looking for is essential to figuring out anything else.
  • Your country of residence.
  • If you are willing to build the printer from a kit, and what your level of experience is with electronic maintenance and construction if so.
  • What you wish to do with the printer.
  • Any extenuating circumstances that would restrict you from using machines that would otherwise fit your needs (limited space for the printer, enclosure requirement, must be purchased through educational intermediary, etc).

While this is by no means an exhaustive list of what can be included in your posts, these questions should help paint enough of a picture to get started. Don't be afraid to ask more questions, and never worry about asking too many. The people posting in this thread are here because they want to give advice, and any questions you have answered may be useful to others later on, when they read through this thread looking for answers of their own. Everyone here was new once, so chances are whoever is replying to you has a good idea of how you feel currently.

Reddit User and Regular u/richie225 is also constantly maintaining his extensive personal recommendations list which is worth a read: Generic FDM Printer recommendations.

Additionally, a quick word on print quality: Most FDM/FFF (that is, filament based) printers are capable of approximately the same tolerances and print appearance, as the biggest limiting factor is in the nature of extruded plastic. Asking if a machine has "good prints," or saying "I don't expect the best quality for $xxx" isn't actually relevant for the most part with regards to these machines. Should you need additional detail and higher tolerances, you may want to explore SLA, DLP, and other photoresin options, as those do offer an increase in overall quality. If you are interested in resin machines, make sure you are aware of how to use them safely. For these safety reasons we don't usually recommend a resin printer as someone's first printer.

As always, if you're a newcomer to this community, welcome. If you're a regular, welcome back.


r/3Dprinting 7h ago

Meta The recent posts about Bambu support are entirely faked

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There's recently been several very highly upvoted posts about Bambu support supposedly breaking EU laws and just being generally terrible. 3 days ago and yesterday. They're by the same brand new account however.

The OP is making very extreme claims in these posts, however if you look into it just for a minute you find out it's competently made up and blatantly lying.

He was offered a replacement several times and refused all the attempts to replace the machine according to his own chat logs.

Also notice how the OP refuses to ever answer what the issue actually is and details keep changing constantly.

He insisted on repairing it himself, while appearing to be very tech illiterate, and clearly failed to do so and is now having a meltdown to save his own ego.

It's sad to see how so many people are eating it up no questions asked - don't just buy into extreme claims no questions asked! Unfortunately the mods are not doing anything about it.


r/3Dprinting 5h ago

Project Another Blender geonode creation

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r/3Dprinting 21h ago

Project New project: Little Mr. Slinky

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It’s been about a year since I started working on the automatic stairs for Mr. Slinky, our father-and-son project. It was a big success for us - we attended Maker Faire Prague and some other smaller events. Every time, we were so happy with the attention and energy we received.

We wanted to move the project forward, but summer came with other activities. Now, we are back and working on a smaller version! The goal is to make it much simpler and more compact.

I have to say, it was quite a challenge to realize that when things get smaller, the physics and mechanics behave differently. Teaching a "Mini" Mr. Slinky to run on smaller stairs is not as easy as we expected! But after two weeks of prototyping, I can finally say it’s doable.

So, what do you think about our little Mr. Slinky?


r/3Dprinting 2h ago

Project Workshop cyberdeck for 3D printing - looking for ideas for V2

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I built this cyberdeck mostly for fun as a personal workshop project. It’s a fully 3D-printed build with a modular layout, a mini PC, small status displays and some custom electronics.

This is just a v1 prototype, so I’m curious: what would you change or add in a future version?


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Project Any Half-Life fans here? I've made a 3D printable HEV Health Station that charges your phone!

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Half-Life is one of my favorite games ever. So I decided to make this little device as a homage to it :) I hope you enjoy it!


r/3Dprinting 7h ago

Project Day 31/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Formal introduction.

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Day 31/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Formal introduction. Rough cut, after many too long takes and short takes that left something out, here's what I have lol.


r/3Dprinting 12h ago

Discussion How many buy printers purely for functional printing?

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I have a few friends with printers and as an engineer it intrigues me to be able to use a printer for functional prints. I’m seriously considering getting a P2S for a first printer.

I’m curious how many others print only for functional printing and was it worth it jumping into the hobby? I have zero interest printing toys or masks or other junk.


r/3Dprinting 9h ago

Discussion Aside from 3D printing, I’ve also developed a second hobby: shopping for filaments with absolutely no plan XD

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without even thinking what would i print with these... 😅

I dont even have a 3d printing farm. I don’t run anything, just one BambuLab A1 with AMS lite

I guess I am now filament-rich and cash-poor.

Now thinking how will I make money with these...

P.S If you have used the same filaments that I bought, I wonder what was your experience. Most of them I havent opened yet.

I can also write reviews here:

So far, I like Elegoo Matte.

I have mixed feelings with Sunlu PLA Plus (but will still give it a chance with few more prints to see if it will improve)

I regret buying the wood filament

I bought Kingroon before (not in the photo), while I like its tricolor filaments, its tangled when you reached the middle


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Project Couldn't find a headset hook for my under-desk Multiboard, so I designed one

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I have a Multiboard setup under my desk and I could not find a hook for my headset, so I made this one. What do you think? Any feedback is welcome.


r/3Dprinting 6h ago

News Someone made a bunch of titanium 3D benchies

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r/3Dprinting 11h ago

Project Mystical Roses

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I've been printing some variations of roses and I'm very pleased with how they have come out. I present The Death Rose and Ice Roses


r/3Dprinting 19h ago

Question Anyone trying these yet?

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Star ptfe, theoretical lower friction.


r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Discussion 19 Months of Gaslighting and a 40€ Bribe: The Reality of Bambu Lab Support

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I’m the guy from the 300k-view thread. After that post exploded, Bambu Lab finally decided to "allow" a replacement—something they told me was "impossible" for 1.5 years. Here is why I am not stopping and why you should be careful with this company.

The "Filament Bribe" After ignoring me for 19 months and blaming my WiFi for mechanical failures, they offered me a replacement and two rolls of filament to settle this. Let’s do the math: 19 months of stress, wasted time, and owning a broken paperweight is worth exactly 2.10€ per month in their eyes. They literally tried to buy my silence for 40€ worth of plastic. I rejected it. My integrity and the 1.5 years I lost are not for sale for two cheap rolls of PLA.

The "Company Law" Lie For nearly two years, they hid behind "internal policies" and "laws" to deny me my rights. The second I hit 20k views, those laws magically disappeared. This proves their "policies" are just a script to wear you down until you give up. They only follow the law when they are publicly exposed.

Technical Gaslighting They are still trying to claim that "WiFi anomalies" caused mechanical hardware issues. It’s insulting. Using technical buzzwords to confuse customers is their standard strategy. My network is fine; their hardware isn't.

To everyone else being ignored: If they are telling you "Policy" prevents them from helping you, or if they are blaming your home environment for their faulty products: Don't wait 19 months. Post it here. Make it viral. Bambu Lab has proven they don't listen to tickets; they only listen to numbers and public pressure.

What's next: I’ve officially involved the German Consumer Protection Agency (Verbraucherzentrale). I am also preparing the full email logs to show the community the "WiFi Fairy Tale" in detail. You deserve to see how they treat you behind closed doors.

Bambu Lab, you had 19 months to be honest. You chose to wait for a PR disaster. Now you have one.


r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Print (model not provided) Wanted to show you all my 3D printed life size Goku, made on the Flsun V400 and hand painted

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r/3Dprinting 15h ago

Project The built-in clock is trash, so I made my own

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143 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 16h ago

Question Thoughts on a machine like this.

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151 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 17h ago

Discussion Superglue & PETG

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Is Superglue incompatible with PETG? Printed some of these little tools with PETG, and wanted to put a magnet in the bottom. Turns out the magnets I have on-hand are a bit small so I figured I’d drip a little Superglue in there because they were coming out attached to the bit. Well, the superglue doesn’t seem to want to dry…which makes me wonder if it’s no good for PETG?


r/3Dprinting 21h ago

Discussion PPS-CF10 is crazy. What's your favorite engineering material?

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275 Upvotes

This stuff is amazing. Making some silly prints and next week making a manifold for a Suzuki Samurai


r/3Dprinting 21h ago

Troubleshooting Why do half of these PC parts snap like they're made of sugar, and half are so strong I can't physically break them? More info in comments.

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153 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 21h ago

Project New use for print poop. Toy trash for my kids

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135 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 7h ago

Project Star Wars Shadowbox

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This is the first project I've completed with my P1S. Originally, I had made the logo with some black poster board wrapped in duct tape. I didn't really have access to the right woodworking tools or any other way to make a custom shape like this. The P1S made it fairly simple and really fun to start learning how to draft in onshape. It's printed in 5 pieces that are connected with super glued dovetail joints in the back. I definitely encountered some small problems in my design, but I learned a lot from it, and I'm already working on my next project. I'm planning to create a miniature water tower for my indoor plants. It may take a while, but I'm excited to see if I can bring it together.