Bambu Studio colorFabb varioShore Profile

After some experimentation with the excellent starting point provided by colorFabb, I thought I would share my settings here, as well as other things that you will need to do for this to work well.

This project has had numerous settings updates which I have made through trial and error and a lot of repeated prints trying out varioShore and making some gaskets in the process.

To manage expectations, you are going to be in for a bit of post-processing, so have some snips at the ready. The picture above shows a 92mm fan gasket after about a minute of post-processing using these settings.

First, load the project and replace my excellent gasket with your model. Or don't, your call.

The project is based on modified project, filament and process settings. The filament is modified “Bambu PLA Basic” and the process is modified “0.20 Standard @BBL X1C” process. If you change either of these to other presets it will not work.

Printer Setup

It's a cool plate job. Use glue for easy removal. The liquid one is easiest to apply.

You can not use the AMS for this print. I am feeding my varioShore directly from a Sunlu S2 dryer into an X1CC, having already dried out the filament for 6 hours.

Consider printing one model at a time for less post-processing work and better quality. This will result in less stringing, outer wall defects etc and applies for multiple quantities of a single model as well as many different models in the same build. If you can, use one. It will build with many, it will just be more work.

Manual Printer Settings

To give your print a good start it is a good idea to disable the first layer inspection, as a little ooze will be problematically dragged all over your print bed at this point. Also best to disable AI monitoring for these types of print.

On your printer device status page, click the “Print Options” button.
Disable the two options that are selected below. The other options are already set (or not) at your discretion and do not affect this print.

Now you are good to send your job off to the printer, assuming you have already loaded your varioShore onto an external spool and absolutely not in the AMS. Check one last setting before you send it off:

Ensure that flow calibration is disabled. This will result in more ooze related destruction of the first layer if enabled.

Most of the guidance here is geared up to protect the first layer. I have found that minor problems in the first layer tend to snowball into larger ones later on and protecting this from slight oozing is key to quality.