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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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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.
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OrcaSlicer 2.4.2 Lands With Preset-Recovery Fixes and More Reliable Cloud Sync
OrcaSlicer 2.4.2, released July 7, 2026, repairs presets broken by renamed printer/filament profiles, stops cloud sync from silently re-enabling disabled filament overrides, and squashes several crash bugs.
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Makr3D Opens Beta for a White-Label 3D-Print Fulfillment Platform Aimed at Etsy and Shopify Sellers
UK-based Yorkshire3D has opened beta access to Makr3D, a cloud fulfillment service that prints, checks, packs, and ships 3D-printed goods under a seller's own brand from a 100+ Bambu Lab printer farm.
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OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 Lands With Native Windows ARM64 Build and a Skirt-Generation Fix
OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 ships a native Windows ARM64 build for Snapdragon X Elite laptops, fixes a 2.4.0 bug that reprinted skirts during sequential printing, and adds Snapmaker U1 and Elegoo Centauri 2 profiles.
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Bambu Studio 2.6.1 Solves the Spool Guessing Game with RFID-Backed Filament Tracking
The 2.6.1 beta release brings a Filament Manager that tracks remaining spool weight via extrusion calculations, syncs across devices through Bambu Cloud, and adds substantial hardware support for the H2C and H2D Pro machines.
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OrcaSlicer vs. Bambu Studio vs. PrusaSlicer: Which Slicer Actually Wins in 2026?
The slicer landscape in 2026 has fragmented along clear lines: ecosystem loyalty, calibration depth, and hardware compatibility each favor a different tool, and the right answer depends almost entirely on what you are printing on.
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Bambu Studio 2.8.0 Beta Pulls CAD-Style Assembly Guides Into the Slicer
Bambu Studio 2.8.0 Public Beta adds an Assembly Guide tool that turns an imported STEP file into exploded-view, step-by-step build instructions inside the slicer, plus counterbore-hole bridging modes and better time-lapse output.
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3MF: Why the 3D Printing Industry Is Moving Away From STL
STL has been the default 3D printing format for 35 years. The 3MF format does everything STL does and adds color, material, orientation, and multi-part support — here's why the transition is accelerating.
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Bambu Studio Support Painting: Precise Manual Control Over Auto-Generated Supports
Bambu Studio's support painting tool lets you block auto-generated supports, add manual supports to specific faces, and enforce tree vs normal support type per region. Here's how to use it effectively.
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AI Tools for 3D Printing in 2026: What's Actually Useful and What's Still Hype
AI-generated geometry, AI-optimized support structures, and AI print monitoring are all real now. The question is which tools deliver enough value to integrate into a real workflow.
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Slicer Showdown: Bambu Studio vs OrcaSlicer vs PrusaSlicer — Which Should You Use?
All three major slicers can get plastic on a print bed. Where they diverge is in workflow philosophy, calibration tooling, and how tightly they're coupled to their hardware ecosystems.
