Printing 5 colors

[BD489]

I want to print a part with five colors. The base will be white, and on top of that I’ll have areas of black, green, blue, and red. How would you go about this? If I pause after all the white has been printed, can I pull the white spool and replace it with a new color to finish?

[Ruby_in_Wyoming]

Yes, just make the other color white when you go to slice it and put the new color in the white’s spot on the ams.

[BD489]

The AMS will let me pull a filament and change while paused? I haven’t done that before. Cheaper than buying a second AMS…

[Ruby_in_Wyoming]

You can put a new filament in while paused, just don’t expect it to pull the information from the RFID chip as it will not.

[MalcTheOracle]

Read this, I explain it in detail with examples you can view before trying it yourself.

Pausing to change Filament on AMS Lite

I did this very thing for a different designer’s model as they didn’t have one that could print all the 5 colours shown in the photo with just a single AMS/AMS lite. If you read the instructions in the print profile and download it into to Bambu Studio, you will see how I achieved it. The key thing is to set four colours in the model, doubling up at least one in your case so that the pause lets you swap out. I also designed a 7-colour model that required it. I made versions for 2 AMS units…

@Ruby_in_Wyoming

just don’t expect it to pull the information from the RFID chip as it will not.

That part is a benefit as it means you can swap all filaments midway through a print, including the Bambu Lab ones.

[Ruby_in_Wyoming]

I knew that I had seen instructions on how to do this, Glad that I remembered from your detailed instructions.