I’ve been saving all the Bambu RFID tags and marking them with the color/type to use them in other rolls. Here’s a part that helps use them with Hatchbox filament…
Just started using some Hatchbox and this model and it’s working great so far. One thing to keep in mind is where the RFID tag goes. If you only use one it has to go on the correct side of the spool. The RFID readers are between slots 1&2 and 3&4. So if you have just one tag, in bay 1 it has to go on the side of the spool closer to bay 2. In bay 2 it has to go on the other side - towards bay 1.
As a hobbyist I do not need Bambulabs telling me how much left on the spool. AMS is next to me and I can easily make those estimations myself. On the other hand, trying to find the profiles I created for that particular filament among hundreds of Filaments listed in a pull down menu is not convenient.
IMHO There is no technical risk Bambulabs should be concerned of. As some of you wrote the tag is not able make correct estimations for bambulabs filaments either if it was used on another machine prior to putting it into AMS. It is clear that they are afraid of loss of profit and market share of their filaments.
Although I am a new BL user, I have been following this forum for some times. All the requested features turned down by BL, produced by some official and not so official manufacturers. From what I see some are failing terribly and ruins the BL reputation more then themselves.
What BL should realize that the 3D community had been trained to find their own solutions for more than a decade now and will never stop trying to improve and improvise when the companies ignore them. I am sure this is not what BL had intended when they were planning to make a closed source printer.
I would assume that the RFID system for Bambulab will remain closed. This is totally common in the market. Considering that Bambulab offers me lots of varieties, colors and fast delivery at a very fair price, I have no problem with that.
Others on the market (especially for MSLA, Resin) either don’t allow you to use other brands AND are EXTREMELY expensive in their own brand.
I have tried many different brands, and in terms of price/performance I ended up with Geeetech + Bambulab. This means I don’t have to scroll through a massively long list in BambuStudio because I always use the same manufacturers.
I would also like it if you could save your own brands on your own RFID tags - but I would be very(!) surprised if this is opened.
On sale, a role PLA from Geeetech cost ~15-18€. And on sale, a role PLA from Bambulab cost ~17€.
Are we allowed to make are own tags now. On my last order it popped up I could purchase nfc tags so I purchased one pack of each that they offered only was a few bucks per pack so I figured why not. So either it’s coming or already out of was my thoughts.
The NFC tags from the MakerSupply catalogue of items are entirely unrelated to the AMS means of determining what filament was placed inside it.
To my knowledge, nothing has changed the position Bambu Lab has which is; they have no plans or interest in allowing third-party suppliers to adopt their NFC tagging system nor allowing us users the ability to add custom NFC tags to filaments from other suppliers.
Actually, the Bambu tags are more of an issue than they are a benefit. I found that (for whatever reason) I get better print results from my Bambu Lab PLA Matte using a different temperature than in their standard filament settings. Since that cannot be updated, I need a copy. Two problems follow: 1) The copy will not get any updates to the default profile. 2) Selecting the AMS slot filament in a project gets the default profile – not the correct one.
So, I have a choice: A) try to remember to select the correct profile including dealing with substandard prints when I fail, or B) not buy Bambu filament.
Getting the wrong settings (but looking OK) is far, far worse than getting no settings.