Print terrain smoother & faster!

[@ToddRumbach]

🐉Always informative, often entertaining. Someday a Fat Dragon mascot stl will be available.

[@JakeSpacey]

I’m going to second that Fat Dragon mascot stl.

[@SamuraiMujuru]

@@JakeSpacey I shall third this request.

[@jamescandlish7097]

Just bought a Bambu Labs A1 Mini 3D printer last week, and your videos are coming in so handy. Thank you!

[@ninjatango]

I hate the youtube algorithm but I love miniatures!

[@PWALPOCO]

Wow - thank you so much for this! I've had an A1 mini (my first ever 3d printer) just a few days now and after learning the valuable lesson of filament care and getting a Sunlu S2 filament box I got onto my very first piece of terrain. It's the "Dungeon Arch 2x2B" file (from within a set) ... I am so happy! The lines are barely there - and thats just on banbu pla matte... thanks again!

[@Quietlovingman]

Using the Bambu slicer, the print head will travel to the edge of the print bed and rest the hot end to allow for a timelapse photo even if you are not using the timelapse setting. To disable this travel you can change the print option from by layer, to by object. It takes 5 minutes off of the Door print, and about 10 minutes off of a wall print. It takes more time off of the print based on how tall it is, as it does that odd travel every layer by default.

[@tiberiumnp8030]

Thank you! I was just wondering is there no way of removing the timelapse feature.

[@blacksnapper74]

Thanks for explaining the journey from default to best. At each step, you explained the change and what was different. I hadn’t tried lightning infill before and didn’t know why you’d choose any of the different options.

[@PotentElectron]

Super useful guide! Makes so much sense to be able to select which part of the terrain gets high quality thin lines, while less intricate parts can have thicker lines. Thank you for making this!

[@PokeJulyTCG]

Thanks for the continued FDM miniature content!

[@madadric]

I find another benefit when using adaptive layers is that overhangs can be printed with thicker layers which have less droop, and look neater

[@jarededwards7018]

I've actually been firing off dungeon tiles at .28 on my P1P and they also look great, there's just something about how nice and smooth the bambu printers are that they even look super good at that layer height

[@DMKarinZeeland]

Oh wow, sticked to .2 so far but will certainly try .28 with my P1S. Is that with the standard .4 nozzle?

[@jarededwards7018]

@@DMKarinZeeland yup!

[@magwumpus]

Here’s a comment for the signal boost! Good content here, excellent work.

[@DMsMixUp]

Love what I learn here.

[@nctinman8775]

Thanks Tom, I have enjoyed your vids for several years. You fueled my early days of terrain design.

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

Thank you :)

[@Slurgical_3D_Terrain_Channel]

Your videos always rocks. Thank you again.

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

Thanks!

[@FamBoren]

I really like your informative videos. They are such a treasure trove of tips and tricks. Great job (again)!

[@wayne479]

About to print a castle and you are helping alot

[@scottroy1579]

An excellent, detailed yet easy to follow video, thank you!

[@tremorflow3614]

Love your tutorials, helped me a lot years ago with creality and now with my new A1. Keep up the great work!!

[@arved.jeltsch]

I always enjoy you videos! Looking forward to print terrain on my A1 mini.

[@bobryan7927]

Always appreciate your tips. Love my A1 mini.

[@menyou6873]

I love your videos! Please keep them coming!

[@jenshs4817]

Great video and very interesting to see how you customised everything.

[@maartjevancaspel]

Thank you for all your hard work! 😊

[@SteveK72688]

New to the game of 3D printing. This video was helpful and informative as always.

[@thomaswilliams5005]

You’ve saved me so much time I am always eager to help

[@ITSMONKEYBABY]

You're the reason I got an A1 mini. Here's your like, sub, and comment. Thanks for the content!

[@edmacauley2419]

Trying this now with my P1S. Thanks Tom. :)

[@nassozeebo]

You have also saved money on filament using the lightning infill :)

[@anderdelrio]

🎉 keep these videos coming! We love ‘em!!!

[@travisbarber1945]

Thanks for this great video Tom

[@Immolate62]

Love the A1 Combo so much we're getting our second one on Monday. 90% of the performance of my P1S Combo but otherwise better overall with PLA/PETG. That includes silks and sparkles and tricolors, so most of what a hobbyist terrain printer would ever print. My K1 Max is also performing well for now, and it's quite an attractive printer, like the Bambus. What a glorious time to be involved in 3D printing.

[@VictoriaKatt-gf3ig]

I cannot wait to start printing these. Hopefully these settings will work just as well on my X1 Carbons.

[@DingoPaints]

Thanks and great video. I have a lot of your terrain to print. This is info I am going to try on my P1S

[@sil3ss]

Very informative, thanks!

[@Itronin01]

Great stuff, Tom!

[@dakkaflakkaflame]

Thanks for the video! I'm pretty well sold on getting a Bambu A1 or A1 mini. Were you planning to do a video on comparing them for printing minis or do you think that like this terrain test there wouldn't be any noticeable difference? Some people have said the A1 Mini prints better quality miniatures for some reason that's over my head.

[@sneakypepe]

I'm in the same situation. The 10% discount ends in 2 weeks, so it would be nice to know if there is a significant difference in quality between them for minis

[@augustopaixao8911]

Great video Tom.

[@clute76]

Amazing content as usual.

[@Darkbirdy]

One suggestion, if I may: Consider increasing your cursor size and setting it's color to inverted for these videos. It would make it a lot easier to follow where you're pointing/clicking.

[@wayne479]

Awaiting delivery of my A1 Mini

[@pscriv1100]

Great content as always!

[@corkey2077]

I've just been using auto adaptive layer never considered custom and such a time saver on the base at 0.3

[@KentuckyFriedGamers]

Great video Tom! I'm going to try those settings on some prints.

[@Darkbirdy]

Thanks for this. I'd really, really love to see you revisit your "How to Print Miniatures" series on Bambu - four years is a long, long time in a technology this new and advancing this fast!

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

I do have a minis printing video for Bambu Labs printers (published a few months ago)

[@Darkbirdy]

@@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors Yep! I have watched it a couple of times. I"m trying to work your A1 profile into my P1S, and I really liked the detail you went into on your old videos back when I was using Cura. It really helped to understand what was what, and how best to tweak the settings for the best results. There are tons of videos out there, but they tend to focus on settings for much larger, less detailed prints.

[@jgroppe]

Can't wait to try it.

[@SinisterGamingTabletop]

Good stuff Tom!

[@Eewokney]

thanks for all your effort

[@jeffcochran3610]

I'm going to have to try adaptive layers again, haven't tried it for quite a while and not sure I understood completely how it worked. Thanks.

[@chrisrad216]

Thanks for the video! I'm going to try these settings in a few hours when my cavern tiles come off my new K1. I'll run them on my Ender 3 V3 SE too and see what it does! Thanks again for the tips!

[@rorythomson149]

I'd be interested to know how they work on your Ender. I want to upgrade to a Bamboo A1 so have been trying out Orca on my CR6-SE. So far I'm getting a lot better prints with my tuned in Cura settings and haven't figured out how to tweak Orca the same way.

[@JakeSpacey]

This is a great video. So helpful.

[@GarryWButler]

Thanks!

[@arcanewhiskers2662]

Love it, definitely sharing this with some of my players ! If you're ever looking for some dynamic gameplay oriented Sci fi terrain I'd be more than happy to send you some sample files from my store.

[@MarkCMG]

Thanks for the video!

[@MrAndersonMusic056]

Sweet 😮

[@lenavand2369]

great info thanks

[@WaynesForge]

Thank you

[@pamelaalbin1458]

Thanks for the great information

[@Nerdhaunt]

I'm considering upgrading my Ender 3 V3 SE 3D printer, as it's a good starter, but I'm dealing with issues like inconsistent print quality and auto Z offset, which are becoming frustrating. I've narrowed down my choices to two options: 1. Flashforge Adventurer 5M, priced at $550 in my country. 2. Creality K1 is also around $550 2. Bambulab A1, costing $700 here, but it's not officially sold, leading to higher prices. Which one would you recommend? Creality printers are the only ones with good prices here. However, it seems like all of them need some fixing or adjusting. I want a printer that I can just start printing, go to work, and return to a finished print. I've heard that even the K1 can be unreliable at times.

[@dutch1800]

I don't print terrain or any kind of minis, but I do have an A1 but I'm sure this technique can used on other prints as well 👍

[@gilwenlive]

Dang need to get a new printer now 🎉

[@chasingthefish9042]

You should throw gridfinity bases on your terrain!

[@rwsorden]

Tom, thanks for the great video as usual, but your instructions are specific to Bambu Studio running on MacOS. For Windows, you use the left mouse button to to "scrub" down to .1 and the right mouse button to "scrub" up to .3. To me, the "scrubbing" process seems kind of clumsy and inexact. From my perspective, it would be simpler to allow the user to select the start and end of a "layer group" and then manually enter in the desired layer height as an exact number (.1, .2. or .3, for example). I'll send this suggestion to Bambu Labs directly.

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

The 'scrubbing' allows for intermediate layer heights, but your idea would definitely be a good option to have.

[@michaelkolozsvari3575]

Just a note for the variable layers. When I was trying this in my windows Bambu Studio left click made it thinner, while right click made it thinker. Not sure what was up with the Lightning infill, but not able to scroll down and select it. I'll try to fix that later, as I can't wait to try to print with your other options. I loved your settings for mini figures so much I had to rush out and try your Tile printing suggestions!

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

No clue on that, I use Macs exclusively.

[@estevandelgado8329]

Thank you! I'm looking to get a 3D printer so I can make terrain and minis for Star Wars Legion and for an rpg game.

[@florianmousson2773]

very interesting subject

[@Tank10A]

great video

[@guillaumebellanger9716]

hello thaks for your video . soon i will buy this 3 d printer for printing terrain and your video will really help me to begin this kind of project. i will buy the 0.2 nozzle so is there a diffrence for the profil printing?

[@Hermitmaster]

With OpenForge 2.0, I do the bases at 0.2 and the detail stuff at 0.16.

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

You should try DRAGONLOCK! For a limited time on sale for 70% off: preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/429472/dragonlock-lost-dungeons-master-set&affiliate_id=25275

[@domgrigore7549]

Thank you so much for this informative guide. Is this similar to the beta terrain profiles you have available on DriveThruRPG?

[@robertspears8301]

Thanks for another great video. It looks like you were doing terrain printing with 0.4 nozzle in this video. How would using a .2 nozzle work?

[@richardokeeffe8375]

I like bambu studio but wish you could disable some of the unnecessary solid until it seems to add on a whim

[@abotolo]

Why did you remove the video you posted today where you were telling us to stop printing with the A1 right away? Has anything changed?

[@DougDorman06]

Nice! I thought it would be easy. I assume your prints were with the Sunlu Meta PLA?

[@andrewlongfellow8745]

Tom, I don’t think you have one or reviewed it but do you have any thoughts on any cubic Kobra 2 pro or a Neptune 4 pro?

[@johnross1048]

Great video thank you! How many of those tiles will fit on the bed of an A1 mini?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

You can fit 9 of these size dungeon tiles on the A1 Mini (check out my A1 Mini review video to see 9 tiles on the bed.) :)

[@kisatom]

May I ask what was the print time of these pieces on an Ender 3?

[@Daedalus_Dragon]

Cool. Do you print multiple walls at one time or do you find that it is best to just print 1 at a time?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

I do miniatures one at a time, but fill the plate for walls/terrain.

[@MrAndersonMusic056]

Are you having to do the Per Tile or is the more of a Layer Height. So say you had a corner piece and a wall piece, would they both benefit from the Selective Layer Height?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

Do this once to each different tile (e.g., a wall and a corner) then right click and clone each one however many times you need, the custom layers will be copied.

[@MrAndersonMusic056]

@@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors nice! Seems easy enough since most of the time I do all similar tiles at once then rotate to a new design per plate.

[@johnwatrous3058]

What is the better slicer for the A1 Mini?

[@mekko1413]

Why do the custom adaptive layers have way more stepping than the Auto?

[@greysonspencer]

It has been a couple of years since I've been printing for my D&D campaigns, and I've noticed some changes! Is Bambu the new go-to slicer? I've still been using Prusa and Cura. Do I need to change things up to get with the times?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

Bambu Studio is only for Bambu Lab printers, for Enders and such Cura is still the go-to option. :)

[@manuellaslo1282]

can anyone suggest a cheap and easy to use pla for terrain printing in good qualitiy? for 28mm minis i use sunlu and i did some testprints on terrain with the bambulab pla matt, which came out pretty well. only that bambulab is much more expensive than sunlu.

[@GameMaker04]

Have you considered uploading test models to makerworld with the profile built into the upload ? for ease of retrieval / sharing profiles ?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

My profiles are available on my website for download under the Resources menu.

[@davidzizza]

Would it be possible to make this model available so we can test our settings against your results? I would love to test this on my P1S.

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

Everything is on my website :)

[@comradesub9166]

Hey man, I've just gotten into 3d printing and your tiles look great from my A1 Mini. The problem I'm having is that once clipped together, they are not laying flat. The clips are coming out at a slight upward angle and it's causing my rooms to be a little wobbly. Any ideas what's causing it?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

Can't advise without seeing a pic or two, send to our support e-mail (link on front page of our website.) :)

[@comradesub9166]

@@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors Roger roger! Thanks for the timely response. Love your stuff

[@anderdelrio]

Do you print terrain with the .4 nozzle instead of the .2 as with the minis?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

Yes

[@cerberez1]

Favorite filament (preferably pla+ for heat resistance) for terrain?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

My favorites ate Hatchbox PLA and Sunlu PLA Meta

[@cerberez1]

@@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors i have your filament preset for pla meta from the video about printing miniatures with a .2mm nozzle; do you use those same settings for printing terrain on a .4mm nozzle?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

@@cerberez1 no, check out my video on printing terrain on the A1 for my settings.

[@cerberez1]

@@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors this video (adaptive layers for terrain) is the only one i can find about a1 terrain, and i don't see anything about filament printing. Did i miss a video?

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

@@cerberez1 this is the one. What do you mean "about filament printing"?

[@zak10m57]

just bought my printer so exided

[@paytreonsuhks]

The algo will recommend small channels if that's what you watch. My entire front page is 95% small channels because that's all I watch.

[@dotwinX]

In really like this Videos from you. Especially the older ones with Ender data. I used this to align my prints for miniatures. But unfortunately it looks like for me, that you are biased by Bambu (see affiliate links, clear titles, more videos, ...) recently. Is money here the factor? Sorry, but just my feeling...

[@ZoneKei]

Your like and subscribe request is so long it's probably making people click off. Not me though!

[@Tombof3DPrintedHorrors]

Eh, it's their loss then. And thanks :)

[@tinathecrafter]

Definitely doesn't make me stop watching! I actually like your explanation instead of a generic 'click and subscribe'.

[@jerkq]

Amazing! Keep this good stuff coming. I had already incorporated some of this stuff into my settings but those adaptive floor layers are a revelation!