today my AMS’s (i have three) stopped identifying that Wood PLA is loaded
this happens on bambustio, handy app and even on the x1c filament selection screen
it was fine yesterday, it’s very strange…
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btw unloading and loading fixed it, however it’s very strange, the machines weren’t even powered down in between reading and not reading, and even doing a power cycle didn’t bring it back, really needed to reload the filaments
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I have had that, too. Pre-print: all visible, post-print: nothing. A bit annoying but fortunately not a show stopper.
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Anybody have any more advice here? I’ve been having the same experience except it has never recognized the wood PLA. It is always just seen as a mystery filament. All other bambu filaments have worked so smoothly but this one has been a pain in the butt.
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Same. Tried two PLA Wood rolls and no ID. Attempting to set manually (on the X1C display, or through BS/Orca) doesn’t work either, as it just goes back to mystery a couple seconds later. Along with that, syncing/resyncing the AMS (in BS/Orca) indicates no filament is even detected as loaded in the AMS, so only three of the slots/filaments populate.
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I’m new to 3D printing within the last month, and I’m a little relieved to know that this wasn’t just me having made a mistake!
So until this bug is fixed, is there a workaround? Can I still use a wood filament if I input the correct heat/settings as a new Generic filament? And if so, where would I find those details?
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Also seeing this behavior. isn’t recognizing the pla wood
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Yea, for sure, but I get a notification, when starting the print, that the AMS isn’t reporting any identification information, so I “Confirm” that I know what’s loaded and that I consent to proceeding. The AMS slot to print from needs to be manually selected, even though you already specified it in the slicer, before hitting “Send,” since as far as the printer can tell, the slot appears to be populated, but no matter what, it won’t accept the manual input after failing to auto-detect.
I mostly use Orca, but the Bambu PLA Wood does not show as an option anywhere (I did make sure all available Bambu Lab filaments were visible), and I wanted to just have a “proven” profile to try first, so I launched Bambu Studio, and the Wood filaments exist, making it easy to just export a *.3mf for import to Orca.
Having a hell of time trying to print a bowl of wood, as I’m trying to get scarf seams to work properly; even trying every suggestion I can find (I’ve read the Printables guide several times, so that’s not the issue), but I always get bulging seams where it doesn’t look like an unretract position, but it looks like what I usually get with scarf seams, and that’s a bulge/over-extrusion AT and sometimes after the unretractions.
I’ve tried many settings combinations, including what is likely to be suggested, if anyone replies, and that is:
- Changing wall printing orders
- Setting a negative “Extra length on restart”
- Variable layer height
- Wider outer wall
- Different wall speeds
- Both wall generators
- And More!
Anyway, you get it. If anyone has magical settings, I would like to know, please!
Happy you solved, but unfortunately this does not work for me. I just opened my first rolls of BBL PLA Wood and none are identified; in fact, I can’t even manually set the filament information, as it just reverts to mystery after a couple seconds when I try. At first it does look like it sets a color/info, but that disappears shortly after it loads.
That’s strange, is your AMS (and printer) in the latest firmware?
I have not had the issue again, and it’s working fine both in the X1C and the P1S
I bought a spool of Light Oak and one of Black Walnut. The X1C with AMS behaves oddly with both of these and is fine with PLA basic, matte, and metal. It looks like the printer is able to read the RFID tag because it comes up with the correct color in both cases. It then rotates the spool next to it and decides it doesn’t know what it is. Bambu Studio doesn’t deal with this well. I am using hand calibrated profiles with Orca and telling it that, yes I want to use that AMS slot.
The downside of making everything automatic is that when it doesn’t work correctly it can be a huge problem.
It is probably something simple like a bad batch of RFID tags. The printer knows there is something there but because it isn’t quite right the software gets confused. If you put in an override like it is a 3rd party filament, that goes away when the tag gets read again. I am sort of looking forward to running the spool out so I can safely open the spool and inspect the tags.
I had it work for a few hours once but the next day it was confused again.
I do quite like both flavors of the PLA-wood I have tried. I hope someone addresses this issue because it was quite annoying to have to run the calibration.
All fully updated; have been since newest updates were released.
This is exactly my problem. I gently unscrewed the spool and the tags look like all the others I’ve encountered on BBL filament.
In case no one has figured this out, Orca Slicer breaks the communication between the AMS and the X1. I’ve had the same behavior on the A1. My best guess this has something to do with Orca’s handling of the Bambu network plugin, but not sure. It doesn’t just break what shows in the slicer; they all go to question marks on the printer itself.
The only solution I’ve found is either restarting the printer or reseating the filament.
Side note - it (Orca) doesn’t find profiles for wood filament at all. In order to use the calibration tools I had to manually create a preset. Even saving the Bambu Wood preset doesn’t work; it won’t show up in Orca.
Next release of Orca should have it. The configs for Wood and TPU for AMS were added about 3 weeks ago. Update Filaments to add Bambu TPU For AMS, Bambu Wood Fill filament types · Issue #7527 · SoftFever/OrcaSlicer · GitHub
The issue tracker has the filament json files in case you don’t want to wait and are willing to dump them into your configuration folder ( user/<number>/filament )
That’s cool but are they going to fix the fact that it completely breaks syncing filaments from the AMS?
Because honestly at this point the only reason I have found to use Orca over Bambu Studio is the calibrations, and with recent changes in Bambu I’m not sure I really need them. I ended up doing the wood recalibration in Bambu and after some small manual tweaks to retraction and temp to elimate oozing (pretty sure I’ve got it tuned spot-on now) it prints like a dream.
Not only does Orca seem to break the filament syncing, the AMS/lite required a restart once I switch back to Bambu for it to work again.
I’m seeing little to no benefit here, TBH.
Different issue with the sync ? appearing. Anyways… sidelining, ref Issue I’ve had it appear once a long time ago. Between X1C firmware updates, Orca updates, and reattaching the network plugin, it’s fixed itself for me. Sadly, I think it’s an intermittent problem no one’s able to actually nail down on people who have been experiencing it. My suggestion is to reinstall the network plugin and do a rebind.
Anybody find a solution for this? We’re having the same problem in our P1S and have tried restarting, reloading, changing positions on the AMS, etc, etc…and nothing works at all. On Bambu Handy, when you first load, it recognizes for about 2-3 seconds and then drops the setting and shows the question mark. Manually changing it works for 2-3 seconds and then goes back to the question mark. Using Bambu Studio - it doesn’t even recognize there is anything in the AMS in that slot at all.
Same problem here, doesn’t recognize the wood filament.
Thought I was doing wrong. Same problem here on the AMS lote