All your design work would be outside their software (Fusion, Solidworks, Tinkercad, etc). You would then export to a 3mf (native) or stl and then import that into the slicer program (this is where the “walled garden” starts). That translates it to gcode that the printer then uses, almost like a backwards CNC.
Other things to note regarding filament- if youre only planning on making items for indoor use, PLA / PETG will be fine. If youre planning on using things outdoors or in hot temps, you’ll want to look into more advanced filaments like ABS/ASA, Nylon, etc. These absolutely require an enclosed printer, whether thats part of the design or something you put over top of it to keep the temp inside higher. I’d highly recommend figuring out your ultimate use case and make a decision around that.
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Depends on how comfortable youd be with voiding the warranty. There’s a replacement firmware available for the X1C line, and there’s a board replacement for the P1 series that allows you to run klipper instead of the Bambu firmware. Fwiw, I couldn’t care less (at least for now) about having to run their slicer, its good enough, for Arch based distros you can install from the AUR and for others, at least Debian/ variants there are flatpacks
Also something to consider, the average size of what you’ll be printing. Yes, you can make things in multiple pieces, however if youre constantly printing parts that dont fit the “standard” ~250mm cube you may want to look at the larger format printers
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