I have installed the little piece to hold back the spring. I changed printer setting to 256 from 250. I loaded a decal that is 4mm height x 256 x 256 . I get the red warning that the piece exceeds bed height. The slice tab is gray so I can’t slice. I have searched youtube and www but no one provides any useful info. Surely someone has accomplished this.
I think perhaps you expanded the possible Z range (which was not necessary for a 4mm print), but did not clear the excluded X Y bed area at the front left corner.
From the wiki:
2. Clear the “Excluded bed area” in Printer settings, and change the printable height from the default 250mm to 256mm. This step is to disable filament cutter protection.
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That’s for the height. Did you remove the exclude area?
Edit - I see @lkraus has stepped up his typing game. You win this one good sir… You win this one…
I spoke too soon. Cleared the exclusion area, made a primitive “cube” 256x256x4, still get an error. Prepare shows it overhanging the plate, won’t slice.
Finally got it to slice:
I had to change “Best object position” to 0,0.
Without that change, even manual positioning with sizes down to 240x240x4 would not slice. Auto arrange moved it completely off the plate.
I left a comment on the wiki, requesting an update. Best object position was not an option in early versions of Studio.
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I really need to explore the options more before I start typing…
“Best object” should not be a factor.
In Studio, it does matter when you clear the exclude area. If you do it before creating/loading the model, it will slice as expected. If you try to clear it after the “too close” error occurs, Studio does not recognize the change and will not slice.
In OrcaSlicer, the change is recognized as soon as you close the Printer settings dialog or save as a new Print preset.
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I did everything you have outlined, still error beyond the boundary
243x4x250 Error, the object is laid over the boundary of the plate…The printer setting show the printable area to be 256x256, printable height 256. x=0 y=0. and when I open the printable area set it show xy 0,0
Maybe try a reboot? Works for me with two different Bambu Studio installs.
Ok, I failed to remove the exclusion area…it was not obvious that I should delete those numbers. I placed the plastic thingee in but the printer slices but will not unload the filament. I put a pause in the print, it pauses, but will not unload so I can change the filament. Update…I think I found a solution, if you remove the exclusion area it fails to unload the filament…so I changed the exclusion area to 0x0, 10x0, 10X28, 0x28 this reduces the area 18 to 10 along the x axis…that is the space I need to fit the print on bed…it slices. I dont understand what this exclusion area serves. The filament is cut at the back area not this zone…what am I missing?
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I dont understand what this exclusion area serves. The filament is cut at the back area not this zone…[/quote]
No, the filament is cut at the front left corner when the head presses the filament cutter into the stopper. The exclusion zone exists so that you do not cut the filament every time the head is printing in that area. That little piece you installed keeps the cutter from contacting the stopper.
When you set up the printer to use that area, you cannot use the AMS because the filament cannot be cut automatically. To change filament, you need to pause and manually operate the filament cutter and extruder to perform unload, load, and purge operations, while maintaining appropriate nozzle temperature.
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Ok I think I understand…I should put in the plastic thingee, let the printer print the first 4 layers til it pauses, then remove the thingee, unload and reload, put the thingee in again let it print the next 4 layers let it pause remove the thingee, unload and reload, put the thingee in again to finish. When you unload the extruder moves to the front left and cuts. By the way my label is 12 layers high.
You don’t need to remove the plastic “thingy”. You manually activate the cutter on the side, manually pull the filament back. Insert and feed the new filament back in and purge the old filament out. It will be a lot of work for each change.
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Great I know what to do. I will always leave this in from now on. and remove the exclusion area to ‘0’. Thanks again