Which spools can share a plate
A multi-colour print puts every spool through the same hot nozzle. Bambu Studio sorts filament types into three temperature groups and refuses to slice some mixes at all. Pick your spools and see what it will say before you load the AMS.
Check a mixThe three groups
High: 15 types. ABS, ASA, ASA-CF, PC, PA, PA-CF, PA-GF, PA6-CF, PET-CF, PPS, PPS-CF, PPA-CF, PPA-GF, ABS-GF and ASA-AERO.
Low: 10 types. PLA, TPU, TPU-AMS, PLA-CF, PLA-AERO, PVA, BVOH, PCTG, PETG and PETG-CF.
Either: 8 types. HIPS, PE, PP, EVA, PE-CF, PP-CF, PP-GF and PHA. They mix with one group or the other with a warning.
Your spools on one plate
From the slicer itself: the groups are resources/info/filament_info.json (version 1.0.0.4) in BambuStudio 02.08.02.61, and the verdicts and messages are Print::check_multi_filaments_compatibility and check_multi_filament_valid in its source. With objects printed one at a time, the slicer checks each object's own spools, supports included. A type it does not list gets no check at all. This is the slicer's rule, not a test of every pair on a real printer.
What you get
- Your mix checked
- Which spools can share the nozzle, and which plate should be split in two.
- The split, done
- Two plates or two printers, timed, so the colours still land where you want them.
- The file checked
- Temperatures and moves against the printer's limits before the first layer.
- Or we print it
- Multi-material parts in our farms in Shenzhen.
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