I really appreciate this reply. Thanks mate - that does give me confidence.
Unless the second outlet is for poops. 
I unless I am missing something it still looks like only one color being exported at a time but it can choose left or right nozzle the diagram is hard to tell
Yes one at a time is likely correct, I donāt think anything has mentioned simultaneous extrusion in any of the leaks?
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No I mean the ams can only put out 1 color at a time not 2 color into the separate nozzle that are printing one at a time
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My hope was 2 AMS - one to each head or something similar. I never assumed one AMS to both.
For me the dual nozzle uses will be:
- Black ABS panels with white text marking for control panels and/or logos etc.
- Complex Nylon parts with ASA supports, they dont stick to each other (just like PLA/PETG)
- PETG items with built in TPU gaskets, they stick together well
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I will have one nozzle fed by AMS 2 and the second fed by AMS HT. Will put main material into the HT and other materials into the AMS 2.
So where in the specs are the āfeatures that enable capabilities not previously possible in consumer 3D printingā ?
Laser engraving and cutting, thatās it? Those were done before, right?
One can argue that auto articulating dual nozzles fed by AMS is something we have not seen before. Add the filament drying, laser and cutter and you have a package that gives you something not available before. Just converting their marketing speak to plain language. LOL.
Iām not sure of the use case for a small footprint laser cutter. Lasers are wonderful manufacturing machines when they can accommodate a decent size piece of material. Cutting small chunks to put into the laser could waste a lot of material, and most smalltime hobbyists donāt own much in the way of cutting or shearing equipment. Even if you wanted to cut a cardboard box profile, that takes lots of capacity.
Laser engraving is a different animal, because you might be doing this as the last step of manufacture on an individual part. Then, the machine needs some sort of T slot table or other clamping system to locate the parts.
Iām sure weāll see what the builders had in mind for the system. Exciting stuff.
That 10 min time reduction for 100 layers was in the AMS 2 pro specs and they attribute it to the new brushless servo motors allowing for 60% faster load times. I imagine the printer is going to also reduce the time with the dual hotends, as you said.
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MendelMax!? Oh you poor thing,
Here take this silver blanket and hot cocoa, can we get a trauma counselor please!! 
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In the specs somewhere it said it uses the cameras to create a 3D mesh of the item being engraved, but I did not see anything about a clamping system.
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When I look at my Xtool lasers and their chambers, I have to say that I really donāt want these residues on the walls in my 3d printer nor the camera lenses. Also, a honeycomb base with enough free space at the bottom is very preferable for cutting. An I dont want to engrave my prints, most filaments just melt or burn with a blue diode laser ā¦ or it just doesnt work at all.
I have no idea what to make of it (if it really comes to that), but if such a H2D moves in with me at some point, it will be because of the dual head, but certainly not because of the other functions.
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Filament drying is not new.
Laser engraving and cutting are not either, and they are subtractive manufacturing. They were not possible and still are not possible using 3D printing. If itās about putting them into a 3D printer, didnāt Snapmaker have one?
So that leaves the auto articulating dual nozzles fed by AMS as the only one possible explanation. But the word is āfeaturesā, plural. There should be something else that we are not seeing yet.
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While that is indeed possible, I think it would it more likely that since it also appears it will be able to self-identify which nozzles size/type are installed, it will goā¦ āoh, you have the hardened nozzle on the left, and the normal nozzle on the right are are doing a CF-PLA and PLA printā¦ CF-PLA will be directed to the left nozzleāā¦
We can all use ai summarizers.
For a different purpose, a while back I suggested this forum implement AI for summarizing threads and posts that are too long to read through. Now that DeepSeek is out and cheap, maybe that can be considered now.
Just curious is the new printer going to have laser cutting and certain aspects like that. Please correct me if Iām wrong just trying to keep up with all the news