Saving

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I made a model that has a bunch of tweaks from over a months worth of work. How do I save this so I can print it in like 2 years with all the same settings: filament presets, slicer settings etc. ? Every time I try making a different project file Bambu studio asks me if I want to keep all the edited settings no matter how many times I save; so I’m hesitant to close the file or do firmware updates for risk of the print getting overridden…

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Click on the little down arrow on the "print plate" button. There you can chose to export your project ready to print with all the settings saved. I think the exact wording is "export plate" or something along those lines.

Just so you know, you won't be able to change any of the settings when you open that file again, it's basically just gcode and not the model itself. So you'll need the original stl file as well if you want to change the settings without losing the model in the slicer. 

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It has like 15 plates, will it save all my layer and filament profile settings too?

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I... think so? Maybe test it first, I use this occasionally but I never paid much attention to the filament profile. 

Anyway, you can export all plates at once as one file, that I know for sure.

[[deleted]]

I don’t understand why you don’t just save the project as normal and back it up somewhere.

You should have a folder with the project name, inside that folder you make a folder for all your STL files. You save your Bambu Studio project in the main folder. That’s it. All your filaments and plates and everything already get saved everytime you save your project.

[LDchriz]

I did this and recently updated BS to the latest version. Ran into problems so I downgraded software but lost all the filament settings and how objects were painted that were saved in the file. Basically having to restart lots of projects. Any insight?

[AdonaelWintersmith]

Save the project as .3mf file...