This is interesting. Soval has become the budget open source brand. While everyone else is trying to prevent the competition from stealing ideas, Soval has been the contrarian and has been very up front about their desire to be open source.

I have 3 concerns:

First, advertised speeds are never what you can get in the real world. Due to the constant need for changing directions while actually printing. The machines can seldom get enough distance to reach their full speeds. 40,000mm/sec² means little if the best you can get is 5000mm/sec² due to all the short moves. So I’ll be curious to hear of what the real speeds are from consumers out in the real world.

Secondly, Soval does not have the best reputation for QC and responsiveness to problems. And they do have problems. It appears you can’t expect Prusa or Bambu level support if disgruntled users can be believed.

And finally, do you really need that print volume at a consumer level? Just how many life sized Mando helmets or Dwyane The Rock Lobsters are you going to print? At $1200, (projected street price), that is a lot of money to spend for a machine that might get used to capacity once or twice over the years you might own it.

I’m pretty sure Bambu wants the files as sliced by Studio just like everything else there. They want the machine profiles for users to download and print. Right down to the color of the filaments for the FDM stuff.

It would appear you are now trapped by Bambu into their product system.

May God ha’ Mercy on your Soul.