So I’ve been pretty happily using the cloud print on my P1S but today the wifi was acting up so I decided to just throw some gcode on the card and print from that.
The confusing thing is, I’m not sure how it interacts with the AMS. Normally, when sending to the cloud, one assigns AMS bays to each filament to be printed with. Pretty straightforward. However, whether I was saving to .gcode or .3mf, there was no such option.
I see for the X1C, the on-printer UI allows one to set materials per slot on the AMS. Seems sensible enough. I don’t see any such thing for the P1S though.
In the end, the correct filament was chosen (slot 1) and my print went as hoped but I would appreciate a better understanding of how this is supposed to work or whether AMS is only available with cloud printing.
Are you using a slicer? I have a P1S with AMS and I only print by dumping the file on the card. I use both bambu studio and Orca and the filament is assigned in preparing the job. For CMYK you tell it what color is in what slot. Possibly I don’t understand your process, and as stated, I have never used Handy.
This is Bambu Studio for desktop. I am using non-bambu filaments so the AMS has no way of telling what’s in what slot. That can be assigned in the device page on Studio but obviously, that requires the connection to the printer to be working.
Are you saying that the filaments as assigned on the sidebar are used as the bay numbers when the printing is actually occurring rather than just being indexes which are mapped in the dialog with “Print plate”?
OK. I use both Bambu and Non on my jobs but yes, i do everything through the slicer. Custom pre-sets or whatever. On the touch pad the only thing I have seen related to AMS controls is reset AMS ID.
That is what it looks like to me, filament assignments are part of the print job. Of course, I haven’t tried closing BS or Orca during the print job but I just keep it open to use the camera occasionaly to check the job.
Edit:
I will say that if I go off the device page the Slicer thinks it has lost connection to the printer and I have to pick it again. Not sure if that is technically the same as closing the Slicer.
When I do a CMYK lithophane there are actually 5 SLT files generated but they are combined as one object. Then when prepping the job I use the Object settings (normally it is showing global) to assign the colors to the specific SLT, then the actual Slice.
Edit, I guess more accurate would be that I assign the AMS slot that I have the appropriate color in the the specific object.