Hello all, On day 5 of with my Bambu X1 carbon and also 1st 3d printer so I am learning this day by day. I have a series of questions that I am looking for some insight on.
Within Bambu Studio we have 2 different configurations for support Filament. Support and Support Interface. When printing multi-color what filament is it going to use when set to default?
In my testing of support changing these 2 different support filament configurations can have a huge impact on overall print length. It’s not clear to me what best practice is here. I do have a roll of the Bambu Support filament and I was thinking maybe it would make sense to:
Support - Use the same filament as the print uses which should reduce overall print times??
Support Interface - Uses the Bambu Support Filament which will increase print times due to the filament changes??
Is using the Bambu Support filament needed?
Thanks for any feedback.
Hi there,
for multicolor prints and if you leave support with the option ‘Standard’ it seems (at least in my experience) it uses the filament type which is currently in the extruder at the time support is going to be printed. I think this makes the most sense as it reduces the number of filament swaps during printing.
Regarding the specific support filament: Again my experience - if there are only small areas interconnecting between the support structure and the final object I don’t border to use the support filament. As soon as a break away of support (e.g as it is inside the object and not starting from the bottom) is cumbersome or there is a larger area covered or you want to be sure that the final print comes out crisp, the additional time added by using the support filament for the interface is worth it. But I use it only as interface material - so swapping filaments is reduced to only those spots.
Thank you for your feedback. This is in-line with what I was thinking and have seen so far.
Any ideal what that additional tower that gets printed that is not even part of the model? Seems to always occur when I have support.
It’s the prime/purge tower. You can activate/deactivate in the ‘other’ tab.
If the purge volume for the different filaments and the purge to infill is checked (and there is enough infill area available) I didn’t see the need for the purge tower. But again it depends on the model to be printed.