I tried to print the panda model from the built in LCD, and I had white PLA in the AMS (right nozzle) and black PLA on the external spool (left nozzle).
Printer knew which was which color, and of course it printed the colors backwards. I reversed them and printed again and it’s doing it correctly now.
The question is, how do you know which nozzle is supposed to be which color? I didn’t see anything indicating on the screen what the color mapping is.
Either I’m missing something or that’s a rather glaring hole in the implementation. Hoping someone can point me in the direction of what I’m missing.
Pre sliced, white can only go in the left nozzle. Also the printer doesn’t care about the colors, you assign them. The place you select it will be color coded though.
Also I made the same mistake for my first ever print.
I’m not sure how it works on the H2D, as mine won’t arrive for another three weeks. However, on the X1 Carbon, it’s possible to remap colors before printing—even with pre-sliced files. The only limitation is that you cannot change the material type without re-slicing the file.
The issue is that it is sliced for two different nozzles. Due to the physical difference in location of the nozzles, there is different g code. Also the g code for each specific nozzle. If you slice yourself, you can do whatever you want, but with pre generated gcode, the only thing you can do is select the filament fed into the predetermined nozzle.
That sounds logical, since each nozzle has its own dedicated G-code due to the physical offset. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out on MakerWorld if users aren’t careful with how toolhead assignments are handled.
When you select the panda on the screen and hit next, you come to a “match the filament” screen where it is shown white goes to the left extruder and black to the right.
