Hello.
I’m printing a filament drying box on my A1. I had originally started printing with the blue filament, but when I woke up this morning, it said I had run out of the white. When I went to check on it, it had switched from the blue to the white. What would have caused this? Could it be that when I was checking on the status before bed, I touched the white beside AMS, and it switched to that roll?
I don’t think you can manually change colour mid print so I don’t think you did it accidentally.
If I were to guess, the printer had an issue with the blue so auto switched to white. e.g the blue was tangled (or it mistakenly thought it was tangled), or the filament snapped in the PTFE tube so it thought it had run out.
There is a setting on the printer for the AMS to automatically switch to another spool of the same material type (but any colour), check if that is enabled.
Ah, ok. Makes sense. Not sure why or how it was sent to print the bottom one colour and the rest another colour. Ah well.
Thank you.
It’s possible that when you checked the status before bed, the printer might have registered a touch or input that switched the filament. Sometimes, the AMS system can be sensitive to input, and it might have accidentally switched to the white roll. Double-check your printer settings to see if there’s an option to lock in the filament choice or prevent automatic switching. Also, ensure that the filament selection is correct before starting the print.
If you look at the 3D render of your object in the app view, it already shows the two colors, exactly as it has been printed.
As far as I know this image is rendered at the beginning of the print and not updated in real time, so I guess the filament change has to have been in the gcode already from the beginning.
Probably there went something wrong when slicing the object.
@MeghanSnow That is totally possible. I was fighting a bad head cold at the time, and had taken some night time meds to help me sleep, so I was probably half in the bag when I set it up.
@harryfu I noticed that as well, and like I said to @MeghanSnow I was pretty medicated when I start that Print, so it was probably definitely something I did, I just don’t have a clue what lol.
I appreciate everyone that replied to this. I’m new to multicolor printing. The box is still usable, regardless of the colour, I just didn’t want to waste my white at the time.
That was also the first thing I thought when I saw the picture.
