Stupid SnapMaker U1 Problems!

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

I can NOT Believe I am having these problems - and I can NOT Start up the print job!

Sadly - my Camera phone SUCKS - it can't even capture colors right. Look at this pic:

Slot 1 should look Blue - 2 should look Yellow - it DOES on the UI. But, see the red box? Why does it show TWO different kinds of Icons?? Also - there is NO real Purple selection on the UI.

Here is my loaded filament:

So - I go to start up the print - UI shows this:

Yellow shows Slot 1. Which is WRONG!

Then - when I try to change filament slots:

Picking Slot 2 - it does NOTHING! WHY?!?!?

It literally will NOT allow me to pic a Different Slow - like this part of the UI is Broken!!!

-K

[Bryan Eckert]

The eyeball icon means the information was read from an RFID tag.

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[Kurt]

Ah - VERY Interesting! Yeah - the slots 3 & 4 is Snapmaker spools - so that makes sense. 

I was so Very frustrated this morning - trying to get this print job started - and it made me late in prepping for work. So - I had to take a Quick shower. Well, I do my Best thinking in the shower - and THAT is when I realized the problem. I setup Filament #2 on the printer as PCTG - BUT, in my Project setup in the slicer it has PETG in Slot # 2! Looking closer at the pics above - it's obvious that's the scenario. I was in Such a rush trying to start the print job - I just didn't realize my mistake...

[Bryan Eckert]

Does the U1 let you sync loaded filaments to the slicer like Bambu does?

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[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

That Synching idea sounds AWESOME!!!! 

But, I have NO Idea if the U1 can do it...

Honestly - I'm bad about this stuff. I don't even properly dig into what my new printers can do - or properly connect to them over my network - I just use them as is - and push them to print COOL Stuff! 

This print I could NOT start this morning - it's printing NOW - once I figured out the solution (setting the material to PCTG in the Slicer)...

I wonder if Luke knows the answer about Synching!?!?!?

-K

[3D Printing Tips and Tricks]

I’ve only seen the synch function on Bambu Studio and it seems to me it is coupled to the rfid tags on the Bambu spools read by the AMS.

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Interesting - Because, yeah - the U1 has the RFID thing!

But, it's only good for the SnapMaker spools - none of the other spools have RFID - AFAIK...

-K

[Jody Harris]

It's a pity that OpenPrintTag never took off:

https://openprinttag.org/

It was a good idea.

-j

Think carefully

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[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

I kinda of Remember a posting about that. But, WOW - I didn't realize it WOULD WRITE Data to the Tag! 

COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It may not be Completely Dead - maybe it just needs MORE of a PUSH!

I should Push my buddy John at 3D-Fuel about this!!!

-K

[Bryan Eckert]

Bambu Studio syncs whatever your AMS has loaded, Bambu filament or not. You just have to manually enter it when you load the AMS. I never use Bambu filament personally, I mainly use Polymaker.

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[Bryan Eckert]

Actually this would be a good discussion for the podcast. How the various manufacturers handle getting material/color information into the slicers with the explosion of multicolor printers. Bambu, Creality, Snapmaker, LightMake, Sovol, etc.

Since most of them are seemingly using a fork of Orca, and Orca is forked off Bambu Studio they should all have the ability to sync if the printer hardware/firmware supports it.