Bambu Lab
Every FilamentFeed story on Bambu Lab — news, reviews, and analysis, newest first.
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Printers
QIDI Plus5: The Plus4 Successor Grows the Build Volume 18% Without Raising the Price Floor
QIDI's new enclosed CoreXY Plus5 bumps build volume to 320x320x300mm, adds 65C active chamber heating and a 370C hotend, and still starts at $749 — the same floor as its Plus4 predecessor.
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Industry
ICON Opens First of Ten 3D-Printed Army Barracks at Fort Bliss
ICON delivered the first of ten robotically printed Army barracks at Fort Bliss on July 29, the largest robotic-construction deployment in DoD history, printed in 58 days at roughly 9% below conventional cost.
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Software
CNC Kitchen's PrusaPATuner Turns Your Bed-Leveling Load Cell Into a Pressure Advance Calibrator
Stefan of CNC Kitchen has released PrusaPATuner, an experimental AGPL-3.0 tool that auto-calibrates pressure advance on Prusa printers by repurposing the nozzle load cell as a back-pressure sensor — no extra hardware, no test prints, no squinting at a calibration tower.
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Printers
Hands-On With the Bambu Lab X2D: Is the X1 Carbon Successor Worth $649?
Reviewers now have the Bambu Lab X2D in hand, and its dual-nozzle system, 65C heated chamber and $649 base price make the X1 Carbon's successor the most aggressively positioned X-series machine yet.
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Software
Bambu Studio 2.8.1 Public Beta Adds Automatic Color Decomposition and E3D High-Flow Nozzle Support
Bambu Studio's new public beta can auto-break any target color into an optimal filament mix, sharpens CMYW/RYBW color prediction, and adds official support for E3D's High Flow nozzles.
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Industry
RIC Robotics' Autonomous Printers Break Ground on One of the Largest 3D-Printed Housing Communities in the US
Denver's RIC Robotics has deployed two autonomous printing systems at Cleora, a 106-home Colorado community where 65+ houses will be robotically printed alongside the county's first 3D-printed metro district.
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Printers
Ugee's Funbox Bets That Kids' 3D Printing Needs Less Assembly and More AI
Ugee's new Funbox ships fully assembled with HEPA/carbon filtration and an AI tool that turns a kid's voice, sketch, or photo into a printable model — priced at $269 for launch.
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Printers
Bambu Lab and Insta360 Launch $11,160 Luna Ultra Design Challenge on MakerWorld
Insta360 becomes MakerWorld's first official camera brand, releasing free CAD files for its Luna Ultra 8K gimbal camera as Bambu Lab runs a $11,160 mount-design and content contest through August 9.
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Business
Bambu Lab Runs 48-Hour Fundraiser for Venezuela Earthquake Relief, Matching Filament Sales to UN Crisis Relief
Bambu Lab is donating the full MSRP of Venezuela-flag-colored PLA Basic Refill sold July 13-15 to UN Crisis Relief, building on a prior $50,000 LATAM pledge and grassroots maker splint printing after the country's twin earthquakes.
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Software
Manual Supports in Bambu Studio: The Complete How-To
Bambu Studio's auto supports are good — but painting enforcers and blockers, manual-only support modes, and per-object overrides are better. A complete walkthrough of the painting tools, blocker objects, tree vs normal styles, and the Z-distance and interface settings that decide whether supports pop off cleanly.
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Guides
Flow Calibration Explained: Getting Your Extrusion Multiplier Right
Why flow rate governs dimensional accuracy, layer bonding, and surface finish, how Orca Slicer's wizard differs from Bambu Studio's own calibration flow, and how to organize per-filament flow profiles across a library and multiple printers.
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Software
Klipper vs Marlin: 3D Printer Firmware Explained
Marlin runs entirely on your printer's own board; Klipper splits the job with a host computer. Both now do input shaping and pressure control. Here is how the two actually compare — and who ships which one stock.
