Help Me Understand the Filament Manager

Bambu Lab Software
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I need some help understanding the Filament Manager. I’ve read the official Bambu description of it and it sounds pretty good. But I don’t quite understand how some of the magic works.

My question is really pretty specific: how do I get the Filament Manager to recognize and then track usage of non-Bambu filament?

Here’s a workflow that I know how to do, but I am not sure where the Filament Manager fits into this…

  1. In Studio, I create a new custom filament called Overture PLA Green.
  2. At some point, that information gets sent to the printer/AMS
  3. I take my brand new spool and put it in the AMS.
  4. Then, on the printer screen, I tell the AMS that Overture PLA Green is in slot #4 of unit A
  5. In Filament Manager, there is NO “Overture PLA Green”
  6. It’s not Bambu, so I don’t mind adding it manually. It’s brand new, so I set it to 1000g

QUESTION: if I print Benchy with that filament, would/should the Filament Manager add it to the inventory all by itself when it is finished?

QUESTION: does the Filament Manager know that the spool in the AMS is the one I called Overture PLA Green and will it track it being used when a project finishes?

Bambu spools have RFID and an ID# – so I can understand how the Filament Manager can track them. But, my 3rd party spools don’t have that or an ID number… how does the Filament Manager know that specific spool is the one being used and starts to track it?

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Well, Bambu Lab has never been well known for maintaining compatibility with third-party stuff AT ALL. I’m pretty frustrated at this, because their filament is very expensive unless you buy it in bundles, so I have only ever used 15 grams of it (it came with the printer, used it to print a benchy).

To answer your questions:

Question 1: No, at least from my experience, after printing the benchy you will have to put in the remaining amount of filament yourself.

Question 2: Filament manager is not the part of software responsible for assigning an AMS slot a specific colour, you do that through the printer. I personally don’t have an AMS unit so I wouldn’t know if it then tracks it as opposed to the external spool, but pretty sure it will still show which slot the filament is in, if that answers your question.

P.S. sorry for this reply being sloppy, I did this while half asleep