So I don’t go through the menu when unloading filaments. I manually press the cut lever, then press and hold the extruder gear tension release lever on the left and the filament pulls out with no problem. Going through the menu to unload just seems pointless to me. I do load it through the menu though.
I imagine this isn’t hurting anything, I just wanted to be sure. Any insight on this?
Once the print is finished there is not reason to to press the cutter.
Really, the only reason you need to ever hit unload is if you cancel a print or have a clog…JMO
I don’t cut it after every print, just when changing filaments. Or if I won’t be printing for a while, I don’t like to leave filament loaded. I’ve had instances where it becomes brittle and snaps if left in the printer for more that a couple of days.
So basically, when changing filament, I manually unload, then load via the menu.
I must have worded it wrong, or something…it should cut the filament when the print is finished.
No problem; I don’t use an AMS (yet) so it doesn’t do the cut step at the end of a print. It just raises the head and parks over at the purge wiper.
Not hurting anything. I was doing this for a bit on my A1 Mini after I received it, treating it like my old printers that didn’t do a great job of unloading/loading itself. I now just use the unload and load button since it’s way less steps for me. Having the AMS would simplify that even further, though I don’t think I’ll get one for my Mini since I wanted it for its small footprint.
For me, I kept getting impatient waiting for it to heat up the nozzle to unload, that’s why i started doing it manually.
I do plan on adding an ams lite sometime, but no rush on it. I’ll probably wall mount it to save table space.