Imported filament profiles don’t show as selectable filament

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Hi everyone,

I’m completely new to 3D printing and I’m currently a bit confused about how filament profiles work in Bambu Studio. I own a P2S with AMS 2 Pro.

I recently received a spool of eSUN PETG (Purple) and downloaded the official profile files from the manufacturer’s website (JSON files for both filament and process settings). I successfully imported them into Bambu Studio.

However, my issue is not the import itself, but understanding how everything is supposed to work together.

What I want is simple:

  • Create a custom filament entry called “eSUN PETG Purple”

  • Use the manufacturer-provided settings for it

But I don’t understand:

  • How exactly imported profiles relate to custom filament presets

  • Why the imported profiles do not simply appear as selectable filament options

  • Whether I am supposed to manually copy the values into a custom filament

  • Or if there is a way to directly convert or assign imported profiles into a usable filament preset

Right now it feels like:

  • filament profiles

  • and process/print profiles

are separate systems, and I’m missing how they are meant to be combined properly.

In short:
What is the correct workflow when you have manufacturer profiles but want to end up with a properly named custom filament that appears in the filament dropdown?

Thanks in advance!

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There is a lot of questions and I oh someone can summarize the response.l better than I can. I would however like to offer up that Bambu Lab Academy courses found on their website and are free also includes a new one on Filament and does answer some of your questions regrading the use of non Bambu filaments and settings. Oh this will help also.