Wow okay, definitely unexpected, but I’m glad you figured it out!

Maybe the reseller just wanted to get rid of bad stock?

I know, I was an intern at E3D ^^

Hahaha fair enough😂😂

Good comparison with Apple (no open source anything)

Are you leveling your bed with the bed heated up?

I see, but that just makes me want to blame the model even more.

What can happen if you repair a bad model is that intersecting faces are merged in a way that leads to voids on the inside of your model. If that’s the case it’s really hard to fix for somebody who doesn’t have experience with pointcloud based 3d modeling.

Please print something that you know is “good”, like the official 3d benchy. I’m almost certain it won’t have the holes that you’re experiencing on your part.

Edit: do you have a link to the moddel? Then I can confirm for you whether the problem is with the mesh or not.

To clarify: the issue is that the bad 3d moddel leaves you with very thin walls which get destroyed during the wash

It’s not air bubbles, they wouldn’t cause such huge holes.

I’m guessing that your 3d moddel bad. Intersection edges, wrong normals, that kind of stuff.

Try this: https://all3dp.com/2/stl-repair-fixer-tool-online-offline/

Please note that the traveling salesman problem is NP hard, so the auto-arrange algorithm will never aim for a “perfect”/ fastest arrangement. It just ensures that the parts have a minimum distance to each other while keeping them as close as possible to the center of the build plate

The Bamboo A1 mini is seriously good, but keep in mind that it’s closed source, so no modifying. It’s also very quiet.

You know what? I actually agree with you, in that context it’s a (little) silly

I don’t see how it’s silly.