Printing floating parts in Bambu Studio... this took too long to figure out

This is one of those crazy tech issues that really shouldn’t be an issue… until it is… and then it takes you far too long to figure out. And the resolution is crazy simple.

The video describes it but in short:

• You should be able to import multiple parts to Bambu Studio and it will offer to create a single object with multiple parts, for you.

This is what you want, but sometimes, it doesn’t work! I was struggling with this for a while. I thought it was a limitation of e.g,. Tinkercad or Bambu Studio.

I thought I’d got to a solution where you can import multiple .stl at once and then NOT allow BS to create one object with multiple parts… and then use the merge/assemble function to nudge the parts in to the correct place. But occasionally this wouldn’t work for me.

And actually it’s a lot simpler. You CAN import multiple .stl at once and DO allow BS to create one object with multiple parts BUT the critical part is this:

• You need to ensure the part order in the object is correct.

Hard to describe… so I made a video about it.

There is tooling in Bambu Studio to help you assemble separate parts in to a single object, but actually this isn’t what you need. If you’ve designed the model (in e.g., Tinkercad) and then exported to separate .stl files, then importing to Bambu Studio as a single object with multiple parts does work - but there’s a kicker.

Spoiler (TL;DR): you need to ensure the parts are in the correct order in in the object in Bambu Studio.

That’s all. So annoyingly simple.