Prime Tower with Timelapse Off

I’ve never used Timelapse but while doing some research on ways to set a Timelapse or make one myself I noticed there is a setting for Traditional and Smooth and for the A1 Smooth is recommended so in case I forgot I set it to Smooth.
Now when I went to print I didn’t activate Timelapse but it still built a Prime Tower.
I’m guessing if I set it back to Traditional this won’t happen.
Surely it is either a bug or an oversight.

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It’s unclear as to how your slicer is configured but there is a simple remedy to turning off the prime tower. You don’t mention whether or not you have an AMS but if the slicer senses that there is a call for multicolor, it should default to creating a prime tower. Either way, just uncheck this box:

In Bambu studio 1.10, it’s listed under the “others” tab.

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In Orca Slicer starting at 2.0, it has been moved to the multimaterial tab.
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Yeah, sorry. No AMS.
I know I can turn Prime Tower off but if I select Timelapse → Smooth it recommends turning it on.
So my main point is why is it building the tower with Timelapse off?
Surely this shouldn’t be happening regardless of what settings you have.
In any case I will set it back to Traditional as it will remind me to set it to Smooth if I turn Timelapse on.

Its not a bug. Once you switch between the timelapses and choose smooth, it automatically selects the prime tower. If you dont deactivate the selection but switch vavk to traditonal timelapse, it will stay toggled for you to print it.
Just pay attention when you slice. If you see the prime tower delete it

Probably not a bug but certainly an omission. Regardless of the setting, IMHO a tower shouldn’t be built if you have Timelapse deactivated. Pretty simple and logical to me.
I’m basically just venting as nothing will be changed by my mentioning it here.

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