I made a sign in MakerLab with a background/baseplate in a filament that can only be handled in the external spool holder (glow in the dark PLA).
The text filament is loaded in my AMS lite.
How can I print this? When it comes to assigning filaments, it doesn’t seem possible to assign the base to the external spool holder and the text color to a filament in the AMS lite. As soon as I select “Enable AMS” in Bambu Studio it shows all the AMS lite filaments but not the external spool. If I don’t select “Enable AMS” then I see the two filaments required but can’t assign them - it seems to be expecting them both to come from the external spool, I’m guessing.
Will it print the baseplate, then prompt me to change the filament in the external spool holder?
Well, not to change the subject but are you using a hardened nozzle with that Glow in the Dark stuff? Because it’s very abrasive and will tear up your standard nozzle. Now to your original question… Have you tried using 2 plates? Since I don’t now how your doing the test exactly it seems like you could print the base then switch to a second plate and just print the text on the surface. But that is just a thought.
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If your text is printed inside the object, then it has to switch the filament for every layer, retracting the filament, switching, pushing and so on. As far as I can see, it’s not possible with external spools because the AMS has those motors that can move the filament back and forth. I think it’s possible with custom g-code and only external spools (no AMS) but then you have to manually switch filaments so many times…
If your text is printed outside the object, basically a text on top of a base, I don’t see why do you need AMS for that. Put a pause in the slicer when the base ends and the text starts. Print with one filament, manually change it to the other one, resume the print process. Another idea is to print them separately and glue them together.
But as others said, use the AMS, only take care of the nozzle.
“Similarly, avoid using materials that are excessively hard (with a high modulus) or too brittle (lacking toughness), including third-party fiber reinforcement materials like PA-CF/GF, PET-CF/GF, PLA-CF/GF, PLA Glow, etc. For these filaments, it is recommended to use external spool placement.”
For one thing, the AMS lite gears are NOT hardened steel and I’d worry about them wearing. For another, the port openings tend to drag the filament through and wear even with regular PLA. I’d hate to see what an abrasive filament would do to them.
I think I’ll have to do that. I guess Bambu Studio doesn’t add in the pause automatically when there are two filaments to be printed without the AMS lite?
Yea, when you add external spools you have to slice it, use the pause, then slice it again. At least in my experience, so there could be better ways that I don’t know.
About AMS. I also run PLA-CF and other materials with AMS lite, with no problem so far. I guess it’s also because I dry these filaments. If the filament doesn’t go in, I’ll cut the tip in a diagonal, so the tip is sharp, and then it’s accepted. No idea, it worked for me so far.
I was also looking for a solution to this…
I have a few spools laying around which are way to thick to put into the AMS unit.
It’s quite a lot of filament I have on these spools and I could use them on the external spool for 1 color prints.
But now I just want to use that specific PLA/color for some text on the first layer of a multicolor print. So I was actually looking for a way to start the print with the specific filament on the external spool. Then to have it removed manually, where next the AMS could take it over.
It should not be that hard to implement something like this into Bambu Studio I guess…
You can just tweak all the filament types and colors loaded, also on the external spoolholder. So Bambu Studio should know when it needs the color on the external spool, pause the print, retrieve the loaded filament from the AMS and give a setting to manually load the filament.
It could easily do the oposite when the external spool is finished. Pause the print again, give a message that the externa spool needs to be retrieved manually and after letting the AMS taking it over again.
Especially with their newly 4-in-1 adapter which they officially sell now for the P1 and X1.
It’s not verry handy and time consuming for a complete multicolor print where the colors switch over multiple layers no. But this should be a great feature for something simple like texts on a flat surface, which normally only need 1 to 2 layers.
For now, I’m guessing I just need to go print a respooler first…
