Hello. I am very new to 3D printing, have been building a few prototypes with PLA, and new need to print with PPA-CF, but got a message that the X!C can’t be printed with the right extruder due to PPA-CF being brittle. What it the ‘left’ vs ‘right’ extruder, and how to I set it use one or the other? I already replaced the 0.4mm nozzle with the 0.6mm as recommended, and have dried the filament, but now stuck on this. I researched this as best as possible, but could not find any clear information on this.
Yes, I have an X1C. I do understand that PPA-CF is not compatible with the AMS, so I have it in a dry box. The message comes up when I try to edit the external spool from the printer menu to let it know what filament I’m using. Once I set it to PPA-CF and click confirm, I get the message. Am I doing something incorrectly, or can it be a bug?
Haven’t upgraded firmware on mine but bet you are right - there is probably some code not properly tied to specific printer models. X1 users probably should never see that message.
what happens in studio ? when you add it there ? does it show as unknown filament and still print ? and do you have it selected from a system preset (filament)
Is there a way to go to the previous version of the firmware? Or instead of specifically specifying that it’s PPA-CF, can I just set nozzle temperature, print speed, and other values? I’m not sure how else to print this otherwise.
I’m not seeing the same option in Bambu Studio to set the filament type, but I’m not that knowledgeable in it. Do I have to load the spool first before I can set the filament type?
Might be that Bambu has (very discretely) updated our X1Cs to 2 extruders through its latest firmware update… so that we may also print like the H2D does, and by doing so, to reduce (if not eliminate) the amount of filament poo…
… is nice to dream such dreams … hmm… reality check…ain’t gonna happen…
It appears that you can’t set PPA-CF as an external spool in the printer firmware menu, but thanks to Neijlt above, I was able to set it in Bambu Studio. However, I’m having another issue that I can’t figure out. As shown in the pictures below, the device menu shows that the external spool, which is PPA-CF has been loaded. But I don’t see it in the Project Filaments, and when I try to print, it shows that PLA is selected, and when I click the dropdown to select the external spool, a message pops up that mentions that the filament type (PPA-CF) does not match with the filament type (PLA) in the slicing file. It then says to install PPA-CF instead of PLA and change the slot information in the Device page.
I was able to figure it out, thank you. The filament selection was listed under the AMS types, which it’s not, but selecting it anyway allowed me to use that type in the slicer. There seems to be several issues in either dealing with external spools, and/or PPA-CF.
Well, I printed my model in PPA-CF, and have to mention that it printed amazingly well the first time, and this was my first try at printing this material. The only issue was some 4mm threads coming out too tight that printed better on PLA, but that was easily remedied with a tap. Really amazing!
… hmm… reality check…ain’t gonna happen…
