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).
Currently, the slicer doesn’t provide this option.
You would need to edit the gcode file manually and send that gcode to the printer bypassing the slicer.
I do not envy you, this will be very difficult if you do not read gcode and painstaking to perform so many changes without ruining the model and driving yourself nuts glued to the printer.
Provided you didn’t screw things up and send the head into the model.
