I have a P1S with the AMS.
I had noticed that when I have had prime towers enabled, it would look like a new color if there was a lot of layer changes, for instance red and blue made a purplish prime tower.
I am going to to create an army of small foxes, I want them to be a mix of gold and red, with no purging and no prime tower, printing 5 or 10 at a time so each will be a slightly different shade due to the color overlap during filament swaps.
To do this I want to change the filament at every layer (and use a small layer height). Is there a way to do this using BBS or another slicer that works with P1S/AMS?
I have seen there is a way to modify each layer to pause and swap, but I am hoping for a more automated method.
Try setting the purge values to zero.
Filament changes aren’t particularly quick, even with minimal/no purging. And switching every layer is going to put a lot of wear and tear on the AMS.
And if you’re printing a lot of these at the same time, it’s only going to be the first few at most that show the gradual color change I think you’re looking for. After a few cm of filament have been extruded, the extruder will have been flushed of the old filament color and everything printed from that point on will be in the solid new color. You’re going to end up with alternating red and gold layers on some of the prints, that probably won’t be the effect you’re hoping for…
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Thanks for the response!
The prints are very small, and it may end up with stripes on the fatter portions, but it seems like a worthy test even if I find out it doesn’t work well.
The main issue I have is setting the color changes by layer, and I hope to find a method, or I’ll do it manually in the painter.
Like I said, you can tell the slicer how much purging to do. I haven’t tried “zero” so I don’t know if it’d accept that value. But if it does, then it should result in exactly what you’re looking for. Once the new filament is loaded, the printer will go direct to the model being printed without purging in the chute or using a prime tower.
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You can change filament at layers by right clicking the green plus on the right bar in the preview window:
This has the AMS change the color for you, no manual swapping.
Note: Change Filament only shows if there are at least 2 filaments setup in bambu studio
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My attempts at this failed, as Rocket Sled warned, it ended up stripes. In. my thinking I hadn’t accounted for the support structures using up a lot of the purge transition.
Also moonrakerone’s instructions for switching layer by layer don’t seem to work when using a trackpad on my Mac. Whenever I two-finger-tap for right click, it changes the layer I’m trying to change the filament at.