I totally support the idea to let the user choose which Slot to use should the current run out (as long as it’s the same material).
My idea is to have all slots filled with almost empty spools and run a functional part or a prototype over night using all my leftovers. So if the user could define on runout e.g.(or any other sequence):
S1->S2, S2->S3, S3->S4, S4->S1
That would be awesome!
Keeping BL’s environment friendly attitude in mind, that should be ticking all the right boxes in that regard too No more waste filament…
Yes, agreed, to continue with another color of the same type of filament would be very nice and logical.
Thank you for a great product.
Please consider this request.
simply put it in and lie to the printer. I do it all the time.
I’ve even cut off RFID tags so I can tape them onto another spool.
I’ve just printed a model that used 6kg of filament. The first 2 were not bambu filament, but the printer thought they were, and the color I need it to.
I actually joined this forum so I could post exactly this as a feature request. I won’t do that, I’ll just add myself to this request. I had to throw away a print job today that was 12 hours into it because I didn’t have another spool of matching color. It was extremely frustrating because this was just a draft / test print, and I didn’t care about color at all and I had other filament, but I couldn’t find any way to get the thing to continue printing. I ended up trying to trick it by pulling out one spool and feeding it in and that resulted in me having to take apart my AMS.
I would really like a feature like that is suggested, a “relaxed” mode that says “I don’t care about color in this, please just finish printing it”. I would call it a “just f’ing print it” mode, for when you really don’t care how it looks but you want it to complete and want to use up bits and pieces of filament you have.
Actually I run into this because I want to use up old spools and I don’t have a fresh spool of the same color. I had an idea… I could take my old spool, pull off the RFIDs, and put them onto another spool I want to use up. That will trick the AMS into thinking it’s a matching filament. Would that work? Or do the spools have serial numbers and get tagged as non-reusable?
It is not necessary to remove the RFID…when your printer run out of filament you can insert every Filament you want (same material and same position), there is no check…
But my point is, I want to switch filaments. Let’s say I have a Dark Matte Green, and I’m tired of it so I’m not buying any more. My print gets 2/3 finished on Dark Matte Green and I just want it to finish with Grey for example, because I don’t care about the color. There’s no way for the software to do this, but if I switch the RFID from the Dark Matte Green to the Grey spool, that will allow it to keep going.
They really need to implement this. 95% of my prints, I just don’t care if there’s a color change in it. We’re 6 months away from doing any final prints of our product so everything I’m doing is test prints.
No more waste filament…