So, I want to print this awesome design without AMS.
But how do I swap colors manually?
Last night I sliced and started with black, but it never asked me to change color.
The whole thing was printed in black (somehow still beautiful haha)
In my mind I thought that Bambu Studio/My A1 Mini was smart enough and prompt me for changing the color but I guess that is not how things work?
What do I need to do make sure that the printer stops when a new layer with different color needs to be printed?
Can I force pause at a certain layer?
Did I forget something during slicing (maybe I need to configure something different)?
You will have to do it manually using the 4 or 5 color Swap Instructions on the model page.
After you slice the model, use the layer bar on the right to get to the layer you want & right click on it to bring up the Menu & click ‘Add Pause’.
You will have to right click Add Pause at each layer change.
Doesn’t it have 4 inputs for the filament? In the instructional video there was 4 hoses which you plug in to the printer. So why not plug in 4 filaments? The real question is does the printer need something pushing the filament or not.
What I did was import the design into studio and left the colors intact. At that point I was unable to add a Pause when right clicking the layer bar and I could only select 2 other settings (not able to check what those settings were because Im at work).
Then I deleted all the colors and sliced the whole thing in just 1 color. With that, I WAS able to add a pause. I guess that will stop the print at a certain layer at let me change filament at that point.
Not sure if that is the way to go, but I’m going to give it a try later today.
With multi colour prints you have the option to delete the change colour (filament) instruction that way you can then add a pause option at the same layer
Just to confirm…
I got the print I wanted with manually changing the filament.
(make sure to slice in only 1 color, add the ‘pause’ markers at desired layer).
