I can’t find how to add new Filament profiles to the A1 itself. I’m not talking about to Bambu Studio, but the printer itself.
Can’t be done, I don’t know of any printer that can.
Profiles are created in whatever Slicer you decide to use…Bambu Studio, Cura, Orca.
This makes little sense to me. Maybe I’m asking the wrong question. Perhaps its not a filament profile.
On the A1 touch panel, I click on the filament button. I can see the four spool locations on the AMS. If I press edit, it allows me to select a brand, filament type, color, and some other value. I can’t remember.
In Bambu Studio I press sync, and then the filament selection from the A1 shows up on Studio.
I use overture filament, and the only two options on the A1 itself are PLA and PLA Matte. I would like to add PETG, TPU, and Super PLA to the selection options on the A1.
You are stuck with the filament types that BambuLab added to the printer, however, I expect them to add the changes that we recently got on the X1 Series where all custom filaments that you created in Bambu Studio will be available on your printer.
For now, I would suggest to set the printer to the Generic filament that matches your material type and manually assign the right filament profile in Bambu Studio.
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The X1 Series can do that.
Ok, this makes more sense, but highly disappointing.
Agree, it’s been so much easier printing with the X1 since that update.
I honestly don’t think you’ll have to wait long for custom filaments coming to the A1 Series. Maybe join the beta firmware program in the settings menu in the Bambu Handy app. That way, you should be one of the first to play with new features once they are done. (No worries, the app will show you if an update is a beta and you can downgrade the printer at any time.)
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Thanks for that. I very much appreciate the information!!!
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Might be because Bambu targeted the A1 series for beginners, not bothering to think that people with experience coming from other BL models or other printer brands might actually want more advanced functions.
Don’t know if that’s why, but as one reviewer said, “the A series is the closest thing to an appliance for ease of use than any printer that’s been released so far”. So it seems a plausible reason.
As always, ease of use is great, but advanced functionality should also be included for the “printer geeks” 
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Having a A to Z brief intro video should be included. Let people learn behind the scene on how a 3D printer works.
Agreed. This is my fourth 3D printer. All 3 of my previous printers have been DIY builds. This is my first off the shelf ready to print.
The cost, ease of use, and AMS was what had me grab the A1. I’m not a 3D printer guru, but I’m comfortable with them, still learning.
With the A1 it just seems that if they are having you select filament at the printer itself, then it would be a basic feature to add more options to the printers available filament. I mean Bambu studio has the sync option, which is useless unless you can load filament from studio onto the printer and/or from the printer. It doesn’t seem like an advanced feature at all
Haven’t set up my A1 yet. But on the AMS for my P!S, i have the short list to pick from when editing the filament on the devices page. However, after synching the AMS, when I’m on the prepare page, I can change the filament in that slot. When I do it this way ALL of my presets show up, and I can pick whatever predefined filament I have in my list.
Can i ask what the advantages are with adding filament profiles to the printer are, or would i be being to obvious when i think offline ? or just convienience ?
@iChris were those changes added to the cloud aswel as firmware ?
It’s just easier to differentiate filaments, imagine using two different white filaments, both slightly different with separate print profiles. They will be automatically synched to Bambu Studio.
@Neiljt I’m not sure what changes you are referring. The disabled custom filament selection comment came from the Bambu Studio release notes.
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These changes you mentioned above
The changes on the X1 are both on cloud and X1, the cloud saves your custom filaments, and the X1 is presenting them as filament options.
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For me, besides what Chris has mentioned, my printers are in a different room from my office. I would like the filament profiles to be present on the printer, so I select them when I load a new spool and simply sync at my computer.
I’ve had to head to the other room several times to remember the exact spool I loaded, on different occasions, because it synced as generic pla.
I knew what filament it was, but I had to verify.
I usually stick to one or two brands. But I have silk, matte, regular, air, and super pla from overture.
Plus the random brand PLA that I have for color matching and special filament like wood infused, or multicolor spools.
It’s a convenience thing. Load the spool select the filament on file and sync. No second guessing.
Honestly, this doesn’t seem like an advanced feature. Should have been standard in my opinion. If you have the option to identify what filament you have at the printer, shouldn’t be limited to what’s preloaded at the factory
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So manually added custom settings that the printer can present from the cloud .
I was just querying how it would work with the A1 / Mini due to slightly different operating systems or wether they were just being saved to an sd card, thanks
Exactly, the Printer pulls your filaments from the cloud and stores them locally.
Sadly, this is currently not supporting lan only mode.
My first thought was an sd card would be better, but i can know see how much more of an inconvienience that would be, especially to the more professional printer ops who do this kind of thing for a living .