I Made a HUGE 3D Printer - Using 3D Printing!

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[@lisandroCT]

A .0mm nozzle? Dang, that's a lot of precision.

[@ChristianLonneker]

Lol, i just heard it, went to the comments to see if i was correct

[@MaySheron.]

Same here😂

[@sawtoothspike]

I had to play that back 3 times when i heard that. First of all i thought he said 0.2.

[@3ddruckservice-allgaeu]

Need this nozzle as well! 😄

[@Tomd8002]

With all the hard work on such a mammoth of a project a tiny script error is almost guaranteed to happen! Pat yourself and the Bamboo Labs team on the back for creating such an amazing project and then take a well deserved long rest!

[@NicksStuff]

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it took me several *minutes* to realize he wasn't building a printer but a model of a printer. I even thought that stepper motor was real, even though it didn't look heavy at all

[@arbitrary_username]

Same. Expected much more from one of my favorite makers than a stupid marketing model that could not even simulate printing.

[@ashleyreid155]

Yeah, watch Ivan Miranda if you want to see the real thing, very cool to see an actual working huge printer build

[@NicksStuff]

@@ashleyreid155 Or Dr D-Flo kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWOadK2hqat3eck

[@inoob26]

Yeah was hoping for a simulated replica with moving parts at least

[@gazehound]

He did not indicate anywhere that it wouldn't even move. Not the title, not even at the start of the video when he said "this is also a stepper motor" about his large *model* of a stepper motor. It's just classic clickbait video-retention stuff. Cool marketing stunt but really a nothing burger of a video.

[@Jacon95]

nice, but for 99,9% of visitors it was just some unfinished build that bambulab didn't make in time this should be finished before the exhibition

[@oliverer3]

I mean part of the point of the whole thing is that bambulab wanted something to keep their printers busy during the show, but having maybe half of it done ahead of time would have made sense.

[@FrodeBergetonNilsen]

It was a show for makers. It ended up being the key part of the show. But it was a bit over ambitious, and ideally should have been finished the morning of last day. They then could have flipped the story, printed miniatures and handed them out, or something. But hey, this was a piece of art. The art of making.

[@Vandel212]

Well they have it for next year.

[@Bloodgod40]

Can't believe I watched this whole video and didn't realize until the last minute or two that you were just building a giant model, and not an actual giant 3d printer.

[@arbitrary_username]

You are not the only one. Pretty disappointing clickbait

[@vilainlechat7187]

only commercial video for bad chinese company that didn't respect opensource community. this channel is now in my blacklist

[@Jorge.ALXNDR]

I really wonder how someone saw the motor that he showed at the beggining an actually thought it was real...

[@arbitrary_username]

@@Jorge.ALXNDR I thought he might be using dummy motors while experimenting at home, because the real ones may be quite heavy and expensive and not required until the real show

[@internetcancer1672]

@@Jorge.ALXNDR I thought I was just a housing for an actual motor to make it look right. Also when he said it was gonna "move" he said something else in the video (I'm not gonna re-watch it to find it) that seemed to imply it would print. Cool project, click bait title, disappointed it did not print!

[@jasonchaney5382]

Trade shows are part of what I do for a living. So I know how challenging that environment would be to build anything in. This is an impressive feat. And a super cool thing for BL to arrange. I hope you had enough down time to see the rest of the show.

[@JanosKehl]

I had a blast meeting you and see the process of building this massive printer. 🚀💡👍

[@seanfishback3340]

If Bambu Labs doesn’t know what to do with that wall and those printers after the convention, I measured and all of it would just fit inside my middle school tech classroom. Just wanted to help you find a good home for all of those.

[@simonvongunten9288]

Nice job! I already imagined that you had to alter the original file way more than just to scale it up. I did a similar (but way smaller) project last spring. I made a 1:4 model of our ultimaker at work as a retirement gift for a dear co-worker (it was suposed to be a 3D giftcard with money for a 3D printer). I did t have the files so I had to construct the whole thing first. It turned out great and the head was also moving 😉

[@Fixthisbuildthat]

Awesome project, Alex! Wish I could have gone to the show and seen it in person. Been loving my Bambu Army :) (1 X1C and 6 P1S)

[@jakobtonnesen]

6??!

[@jerkwagon]

Weird flex, but ok

[@jakobtonnesen]

@@jerkwagon Nah thats just sick

[@Realariplayz]

Ur wrong. It was a waste

[@Lexies-Adventures]

Trying to slide me one? :P

[@gabrielemarabello1638]

Very fun project... And above all, thank you for taking the time and energy to take a selfie together while you were overwhelmed by work in the middle of Formnext 😂😂😂

[@buddienorway]

Man that is so cool. Impressive project and very impressed with the low failure ratio and missprint in those enviroments. That is actually good. I got my ratrig and v core printers. But starting to get curious on these bambu labs printers too now. Might end up getting one in the future to see what the hype is all about. Bambu is an impressive company i got to say. Cheers to bambu and to Alexandre Chappel. Love your channel, videos and all the job you put into everything. Keep up the good work. Cheer from Norway

[@WF3D]

It was crazy seeing that thing come to life in person! Impressive work!!

[@properprinting]

This looked even more impressive in real life, great build man! Also, genius combination of the alu profiles and dowels!

[@Zachary3DPrints]

Ooo, another Dutch guy that was there

[@mcstando]

15:00 "point zero millimeter nozzle" that's some next gen tech! lol

[@danielvieira1773]

Alex is back on the workshop, luv it! Whooooooooh

[@maxmustermann194]

.0 mm nozzle haha. Didn't know it was you who made the big Bambu at FormNext, nice!

[@antonsemenyura5337]

What an awesome collaboration and challenge, which you completely nailed! BambuLab indeed pushes affordability, quality, speed, reliability and simplicity of use to consumer level price machines! So glad it is moving forward! Thank you Alex

[@MarkusReinisch]

Nice Alex. I have a Bambu Labs P1S and I love it, it runs 24/7 and made since months no trouble. It very fast and quality is perfect, no match for the printers I know.

[@lawrencegroves8307]

It must possibly be the most interesting 3D printer I have encountered. Crazy to see how many hours you put into that and congratulations! Has anyone else started making what you have, does it work?

[@ShopNation]

Dude, so cool! What a grind

[@JakeThomasCreative]

You did so much work scaling up the model! Wow, great job sir.

[@MarcelElsaesser-uj1re]

Awesome Video as usual! Would you share with us the hardware you used for the suspended ceiling in your flat? Specifically the brackets for attaching the the wooden construction to the joists in the ceiling? Thanks dude!

[@dwuk99]

Another great video, I alway enjoy seeing what you are up to. - This looked like a really fun project. It reminded me of a few things I have done. Firstly I printed a 4ft long cruise ship on a couple of X1Cs - it was 6 build plates long and about 13 build plates high (although each part was only about 2-8 cms thick) - so around 100 multi colour build plates - probably almost as much printing time as your big P1P - your video inspires me to make a build video myself. Also I created a fun multi colour model of the X1C extruder too (but only full size rather than as big as yours). Finally I would like to create a probably half size model of the P1P - but alter to so that it has two P1Ps jointed together on the Y rails - to show what a P1P IDEX would look like.

[@christambartrueman4726]

I'm proud of your efforts to complete this 🎉🎉 bro

[@frauhagedorn]

Wow!!!! - what a cool and well planned project!!!

[@balakrishnanbtr]

What a Great Job you did.❤

[@ScytheNoire]

It's a thin line between brilliance and madness. Can't imagine doing all this live at a trade show. I know a lot of us are wanting an large volume Bambu printer, but this is insane.

[@KyleofAsgard]

Fun little video of the event and the project, also super cool that all the surrounding booths were friendly enough to lend out their printers to help you get everything done in time :D Nice work!!

[@hosquiat]

This is super cool. Glad you were able to complete it.

[@AndersHallengren]

Very impressive, what software did you use to split the model into decent sized pieces?

[@jocelyndeguise]

Am I the only one expecting to see a "working" giant 3D printer ?

[@FidgetyGuy]

I was thinking the same; only to be disappointed once again.

[@arbitrary_username]

Clickbaity Title… calling it a Model as it is would have saved me the time.

[@Ryan-ik2mk]

no, you're not; this is blatant clickbait.

[@FidgetyGuy]

@@arbitrary_username Pro Tip: Always click to the end of videos.

[@gazehound]

Yup. Clickbait.

[@Mattbe72]

It's good to see you back to your workshop 😀

[@roysigurdkarlsbakk3842]

Very good! Will you make a live one in that size next time?

[@TheRealBobHickman]

What an epic build!

[@entredeuxbouchees]

This is so cool, as always! :)

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic work, Alexandre! 😃 But next time build a working one! Perhaps a collaboration with Ivan Miranda? Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@wdbland0820]

Your work is amazing!!!

[@Xenthera]

Would be cool to see a follow up to continue adding all the details to this like the back panel, poop chute, giant ptfe tubing, etc.

[@StraussBornman]

I used to do electronics for shows like this. I felt the suspense of that rush to finish through the whole video

[@Schneekanone_TR8_gaming]

The giant printer is really great, you can develop it further, the display at the top of the printer could be built so that it even shows something and it would be really cool that the hot end can even move and that it can print something on the huge 3D printer you made the printer really great.

[@Jaroslav.Bratro]

Love this content

[@NorthernLightSouth]

Amazing project! Fun to watch :o)

[@scaryfish91]

Ooooh been waiting for this since I saw Stefan from CNCKitchen on the periphery of your build process

[@russellduffy3942]

Thats so cool man !! Never expected anybody to be able to do something like this

[@fyter889]

As a person who has restored several, old aircooled vw’s with bolt on fenders, decklids and hoods, how long it would take before someone 3d printed these sometimes hard to find body parts and how durable they would be, at the very least, they wouldn’t rust.

[@906MediaProductions]

I'm planning on building a 3d printer to do exactly that. The nozzle will be large and it won't be extremely precise, but it'll be enough to print supports for carbon or fiberglass sheets.

[@wittworks]

Unreal

[@ShyneflowLC]

Curious how you accounted for shrinkage if at all? :)

[@ClintonCarawayCNC]

Fantastic can be a reality. I toured Push Plastic 3D printer filament manufacturing facility when I was at PwnCNC World Headquarters (I work remotely for PwnCNC) in Arkansas. Push Plastic has a real 3D printer you can stand inside of. It's as big as a good sized closet.

[@wito1974]

Good work👍

[@Rick-vm8bl]

This is great, I saw it being built through different peoples youtube videos. Really hope to see it at more trade shows!

[@TheHollermann]

What 3D modelling software are you using? Thank you!

[@marsgizmo]

This was such an impressive project and effort from you and the entire Bambulab team! 🙌😎 And it was a real pleasure seeing it in person! ..now I’m curious of your next project ideas.. 👀

[@ButtMan8888]

That's crazy! Nice job!

[@darren990]

details are Amazing

[@beastlybrosrus5366]

Where do we get the file that you have made and edited I would love to make it lol

[@TheCoolStuffHD]

Kind of strange to not finish it until the event was essentially over. But major props to you for all the work and skill that went into this.

[@markc1793]

Pretty sure i saw this posted on the BambuLab SubReddit, unless of course two people were crazy enough to build this! Had no idea you were behind it though, super cool to see the "behind the scenes"

[@David.19.80]

Thanks for your work Alex! Great content!

[@Zachary3DPrints]

I was waiting on this video Alex! Awesome that I have met you in person! Oh I did saw my friend and I at 11:20

[@CAGRIOKUR]

Cool and a lots of effor ! Conragulations !

[@ThisisDD]

I'm sure they'll get lots of use out of that prop for trade shows. Looks great!

[@babylonfive]

Love your work.

[@BeefIngot]

Recommendation for you that Ive recently found quite useful: Nylon R-Type rivets. Need to connect something quickly, but want it to be removable, but also want it to be cheap, and dont want it to be thrown out with a prototype part should it nor be the final part? Nylon rivets. Easier to implement in cad in all orientations as you only need a cone with the end snipped off to be the diameter of the rivet (you can actually just extrude a hole beveled to 45 degrees and you are done), cheap as chips, and you don't have to throw them out with failed ideas like you might have to do with heat melt inserts, which if you've ever prototyped something with, you know the pain of seeing all that hardware go down the drain, or having to design for screws, and then switching to them later. They also come in tons of good for 3d printing diameters and lengths.

[@ggaub]

Does the BL+AMS not have a Spool Join function?

[@achappel]

it does, but you have to load the spools before you start the print

[@kazolar]

Yes, switch over, tell it the spools are the same material and color and it will switch over. Very useful to use up old spools

[@mehrdadhaghighi5140]

Amazing job!!!

[@calvinhenshaw2147]

is it possible to get the cad files for this. I will be reducing to try and make a copy but bigger of my bambu carbin i have. I will have to resize and some changes but you have done most of it. thanks

[@ericbeauguitte2290]

Pretty cool video Alex. Good to see my friend Teddy into your video.

[@jangrewe]

Wow, a .0 mm nozzle (14:57)? No surprise it took that long! ;-)

[@pgsss6354]

Very impressive! What is it going to print? Print a house for start!

[@KiemPlant]

This is amazing. I received my X1C a few weeks ago, and even considering the over 8x price of my previous printer, it was worth every single penny. Just the relative speed alone justifies its price for me, not to mention the ease of use and insane quality and reliability.

[@Liepez]

You are AMAZING! 🥺

[@alanbarker2279]

Great project - now a working model - that would have been something else! 😛

[@hrdcpy]

Well done, Alexandre. I saw a sneak peek of this project in the b-roll of another creator's video. Could this be foreshadowing that Bambu is releasing an XL printer soon? hmm

[@petero.7487]

It's funny how, despite never having used a 3D printer, I remember the possibility that a person could use a 3D printer to create a 3D printer.

[@TheLordNoodles]

That's the whole RepRap project concept

[@davidprock904]

I do not have a 3D printer but I have a design for one. The printing is done on the inside of the motors. The three motors are stacked vertically over top of each other in the same space and there are No Rods of any kind or belts at all, and it has submicron precision , ZERO backlash, and high torque.

[@ralmslb]

1:30 thank you for the responsible disclaimer :)

[@FactionalSky]

Where can i get the .0 mm nozzle? ;)

[@hodenkobolt2]

.0mm Nozzle? ;)

[@syndicated8158]

What an accomplishment!!!

[@danielboos9302]

Love the project. Maybe It would have been a bit faster ig you would have used bigger nozzles than 0.0 mm ones😂. Just kidding, keep up the great work. I was at Formnext as a visitor but must have missed you somehow. Bummer, maybe next year…!😉👍🏻

[@MayorAwesome]

Mad respect for working your ass off at a conference. It's much more fun to GO to a conference rather than WORK at a conference, especially with hours like this. The food is crap, all the sales guys are at the bar all night while you're struggling to get MAYBE 6 hours of sleep. Great idea for an exhibition too!

[@tannerwalker2735]

This is awesome.

[@BLBlackDragon]

That is epic. I'm sure that Bamboo Labs will hold onto it as a presentation piece for future shows. Can't wait to see what you do with the new toys.

[@AndrewHelgeCox]

Ship 86kg of fragile plastic and x kg of other parts to China and then find a place to store it until they want to get it out and finish it off?

[@jsjohnst]

@@AndrewHelgeCoxnot uncommon thing to do for trade show gear. Do you think they left all the X1Es behind too?

[@Ravera.Drawings]

haha what an incredible project!! you're crazy! P.S. It would be great to have a tour of the event too haha ​​to know what each brand was showing!

[@athmaid]

13:08 you nailed that "Morgen!" haha, sounds like a native speaker

[@GameArtsCafe]

It's a mini home!! hopefully more affordable, could print out parts for a larger home! It probably eats other printers for filament when you're not looking

[@snailer06]

Alexandre, MAKE IT WORK!😉

[@Pndda-rm9of]

this is wild and awesome haha

[@calvinhenshaw2147]

this is awesome

[@seb.sch.8905]

Hope BambuLab will release a 350mm cube Printer soon in Gen2 like the A1 as an xy core ❤❤❤

[@seb.sch.8905]

Sth. like a P1-A1 XXL 😂

[@AJB2K3]

Lets hope they keep it so that next year you can go back and upgrade it!

[@Petsimnonsense1723]

alternate video title: how to build an 2m 3d printer and make every 3d printer company go bankrupt

[@TefenCa]

Wow! That is something else! What an accomplishment! It would be even more incredible if you somehow made it so that it actually worked as well. That would of been mind blowing. lol

[@marcus_leon]

Where is it now? Did Bambulab keep it?

[@simonmathenge7544]

17:56, great!! now i can tell my kids i was printed!!!

[@jaynw26]

What were those “special supports”??

[@SpannMagoo]

Where do they provide the 3D files?

[@Waltuh7862]

This is really epic… now make it print 😎

[@cheeriomartinez]

this video was so chaotic. lol seemed like he was really unprepared lol

[@kashgohel]

Amazing opportunity and stunning work. So much effort and skill put into this, glad it worked out!

[@murderdoggg]

At first, I was like: "It doesn't even print?!" However, I now see that is is a work of art, beautiful in it's form at this scale.