You made a very good decision. (this’ll be a long post lol)
Bought a Bambu Lab P1S, and got it last Tuesday. The P1S is essentially a P1P with a full enclosure and a few other improvements, basically a half step between the P1P and the X1C. Haven’t bought an AMS yet, but it’s on the to-do list.
I haven’t been this impressed with a piece of technology in years.
The best print quality I’ve seen, at 3-4x the speeds of my other machines. The enclosure means I can print pretty much any material I’d like.
It’s opened me creatively to printing WAY more things. Been designing and printing pretty much non-stop for the last week and a half. Functional stuff and fun stuff both print so well, so fast.
I made a custom organizer for all of my toiletry stuff:
I put a scan of my head on one of those flexi octopuses
I also designed custom holsters for my wallet, earbuds, etc, since I have a bad habit of misplacing them:
(my toiletries are in my bedroom thanks to my living situation, can’t leave it all in the bathroom)
Infinity cube:
This articulated dragon thing took like an hour all together:
Designed and printed a phone adapter for my car, to stop it from constantly flopping around while plugged into android auto. I had to make like 3 iterations of this, with the final one in PETG, and did it all within a day, despite being a large part.
I think this whole plate took less than 3 hours. Herringbone gears, the infinity cube from before, and print in place vise grips
Finger chopsticks I found online, for snacking while working
I designed and printed this little guy as a test for ABS printing small long parts. My door shuts on its own thanks to the HVAC intake being across from it, so I made a little sliding door prop. Surprisingly strong.
I was planning on keeping my heavily modded Ender 3 Pro (added direct drive extruder, bed leveling, etc), but I can’t find any real flaws with this thing.
The cloud thing is a double-edged sword, but so far, the benefits have outweighed the issues for me. Being able to be anywhere in my house, or even away from home, and send a print, and then continuously monitor it, all with 0 setup, is really nice. I can do a long print, go on a walk, and check on it over the course of a few hours.
It’s also helping me use up all of my old rolls of filament, since it goes through them so quick. I bought a roll the day I got the printer, and it was gone the next week.
It’s genuinely been 0 tinkering, just printing.
I think you’ll love the X1C.