I seem to be having problems syncing with the AMS Lite. When I go to the Device tab, it shows the correct AMS configuration (Yellow PETG on 2, Green PETG on 4). But when I go to the Prepare tab and Sync/Resync the AMS, it doesn’t update, it just shows Yellow Generic PETG on 1 and Green Generic PETG on 2 (see images showing what I’m seeing). This seems a bit odd, at times everything works fine and Sync works properly. At other times, it refuses to Sync but it doesn’t show any errors, it just doesn’t do it. How do I get this to properly sync up?
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IT might be the usual bug whereby it wont’ sync until you go to the device tab and select the printer of interest TWICE. Yes, you must select it twice and then it will actually sync up with the prepare tab. Hope it helps.
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Thanks for the suggestion. But unfortunately it doesn’t appear to resync regardless of the number of times I select my printer in the Device tab. Just to be clear when you say select that means displaying the drop down at the top left on the Device tab and clicking the printer you want, correct?
Yep, exactly that.
It may have to do with having multiple printers, I have two and it constantly happens to me, the sync button on prepare tab does nothing. But selecting the printer twice means when I go back to the prepare tab and open the menu for one of those filament slots, then finally the 4 loaded into the AMS will show up:
Odd. I only have 1 printer currently defined in Studio. My other printer is defined in Orca. So I only have one choice option in the drop-down on the Device tab. If I select that multiple times, nothing changes on the Prepare tab. Currently as shown in my images I have filament loaded in my AMS Lite in slots 2 & 3, but it continues to only show slots 1 & 2 in the Prepare tab with wrong colors regardless of what I do.
I have another related question I think. I have a few user filament profiles that I’ve created. When I bring up Studio initially these show correctly in the AMS positions filament drop-down on the Prepare tab and I can select them normally. But if I bring in a new project (something I didn’t create, a downloaded 3MF from MakerLab) the filament info changes to whatever was defined in the project and the filament position drop-downs lose my user filament profiles choices. Once this happens I can’t get my User filament profiles to show again. It also shows a dialog asking if I want to import the project or just geometry when I try to open the 3MF on another plate but it doesn’t give me that choice if Studio wasn’t running and it just opens the 3MF. It just loads the project directly and screws up my filament info. Do you know any way I can restore my ability to select my filament profiles and tell it to keep my standard base project info and just import geometry?
Well, you should do a screenshot like mine with the menu opened up, you can see from my shot it has distinct sections:
AMS Filament
User Presets
– followed by –
System Presets
*Add/remove filaments (at the very bottom)
Now keep in mind, when you open a project the filament section is filled out with whatever that project was last saved with. In the case of your screenshot it looks like it was saved with Generic PETG. This will not change unless you change it (which I realize that is what you are trying to do, but I am saying it will not change automatically, you have to manually set new filaments by selecting them from the dropdown and then save the .3mf, then the next time you open it it will be how you expect). So, this is saying that filament #1 is yellow and filament #2 is green, nothing to do with AMS slots, just that they are the first and second filaments used in the project.
Again, notice from my screenshot it is using 4 filaments in the project and I have available 5 filaments from the X1C (AMS / external), and they are numbered appropriately for their AMS slot.
That’s a fair bit of detail and maybe you understood it all but I just wanted to repeat it.
It sounds like when you open that dropdown, the menu selections aren’t showing AMS filaments (this happens to me often, I have to do the double select trick), and it seems like you were saying it also does not show the ‘User presets’?
Anyhow, perhaps this has to do with some difference between the X1 and the A1 series, not sure, but maybe I exposed something that ges you thinking or you can post some more screens and details so we can get to the bottom of it.
Finally, did you check that what you are after is enabled in the ‘add / remove filaments’ menu?
Yes, I think I understand what you’re saying. Please see my images.
When I first start Studio it shows the first 2 filament positions with Generic PETG specified as seen after external project import. And my User Presets are shown. Not exactly sure why it uses the 2 default filament positions with Generic PETG specified. How is that setup and if needed, can I change those defaults?
If I bring in an external project (like from Maker Space) that typically just displays the 2 filament positions with Generic PETG specified (not my AMS settings, which I can never get to display if I sync/re-sync or try your double Device select method after an external project load). And you can see that my User Presets don’t show up. The basic idea of my question is how can I get my User Presets to show up here? The User Presets aren’t shown at anytime in the Custom Filaments section in the ‘add/remove filaments’ dialog. If they don’t show in the dialog, where do you go to look at & edit them? Or can you not do that?
OK, looking at this more closely, I think I answered my original question (not the User Presets question). I started all this because I wasn’t seeing the AMS update after going to the Device tab and selecting my printer. But I think it was actually always there. I expected to see 2 & 3 listed in the filament section, not 1 & 2. Guess that was wrong. At least in this case, it’s showing an AMS filament section and the A2 & A4 are shown correctly in the drop-down. It’s odd though, because if I select A2 or A4 in the drop-down, it still just shows 1 or 2 in the filament section. The only indicator is the color but you can change the colors displayed just by clicking the color icon and modifying. It seems like it should show the fact that you linked it directly to the A2 or A4 position and NOT allow you to play with the color. Here it just maintains the 1 & 2 and makes no mention that you selected A2 or A4. Oddities … it’s definitely not intuitive …
So, when I bring in my own project it shows the filament positions linked to the defined AMS positions and has my User Presets available. Here’s what it looks like which is correct but seems different that the above since the filament positions ARE matched to my actual AMS.
The original look of opening someone else’s project is what you should expect. Think of it like this:
The filament section in Bambu studio is a list of the filaments used in the project, nothing to do with your AMS. When you load this other persons .3mf you are actually free to simply slice and print at which point the print dialogue will allow you to select the ‘project filament to AMS filament mapping’ right in the popup window.
But I usually want to pre-sync my AMS to the project so I will simply select the AMS listed filaments (and then AFTER that possibly select one of my user profiles ON TOP of that filament). It takes some getting used to…
Furthermore, if the filament you are using in the AMS is not Bambu brand then you will need to tell the AMS what it is. In the screenshot you sent of the dropdown opened up, we can see as your original screenshot showed, the AMS is currently configured for Generic PETG.
All that said, what you want to do is make sure the device tab shows the AMS in the state you think it is in. If that is good then proceed to the Prepare tab and if, let’s say, 1 is yellow for the project and 2 is green, then select your AMS filaments that match that:
Project filament #1 = AMS filament in slot #2. (again, here you might then also select user profile ‘my special elegoo rapid PETG profile’ for instance)
ETC…
This will click for you soon if it hasn’t already, but it has to do with the sharing of the projects, the project filaments aren’t the AMS filaments but one can make the project to AMS filament mapping there. Imagine saving it and then closing bambu studio and then shuffling all the filaments in your AMS around. It won’t bother the project, not one bit, but you may or may not have to remake the mapping on the next print. Probably not because if say A2 used to be ‘Generic PETG green’ and now A3 is, I bet that gets figured out when you press print (and you would want to verify that in the pring dialogue popup mapping section).
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