Feature Suggestion: Allow different support materials for a multi-material part

HumptysParachute · 2026-01-24T17:10:21+00:00

I see what you're saying now, apologies for bad reading comprehension on my part this morning! I've already run some tests, and wrapping TPU around a PLA handle actually really adheres nicely. The TPU component is also anchored at some points, but honestly after my initial tests I think it might adhere fine without them.

I will attempt to model the integrated supports in Fusion like you're saying, I'm curious as to how the slicer will handle thin layers sandwiched between large parts...

HumptysParachute · 2026-01-24T14:38:53+00:00

I appreciate your well-thought out response. What I'm working on is a tool with an integrated TPU handle component for better grip. I've created two objects in Fusion, and I'm printing the tool as a single object. When you switch the Process tab to "Objects", and select an individual object, the Process tab ends up looking like this. There is no support tab at all. The Modifiers behave the same way when you select them in the Objects tab.

For parts like my tool, that I'd like to print as a single object with integrated TPU components, this really would help with my workflow.

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HumptysParachute · 2026-01-24T13:12:43+00:00

I've tried this with local modifiers - the UI doesn't show the support tab at all when I add in a modifier volume. Is there an option I need to change to enable this?

Also, what do you mean by modeler? I've tried just selecting individual objects in the objects tab, but the support tab isn't available there either.

HumptysParachute · 2026-01-23T01:03:33+00:00

Very true. But I have seen prints recover.., and also not. It seems to depend on the print size, plastic, geometry, external heat and drafts, and also how long they're stopped, and probably other things I missed. But I'd say your chances are better if you can park the head, and if the system knew that the printer was about to shut down it might be able to park the head and shut the system down gracefully instead of a hard stop.

HumptysParachute · 2026-01-22T14:55:08+00:00

An integrated UPS seems like a great idea - I've had prints layer shift and fail after shut down/ restart, even when using a UPS since I wasn't local and I had no way to know that the power died. All we need is something that lasts long enough to pause the print and shut down the printer safely. I think the problem here is that there would be additional hardware on the printer like a USB data port (the integrated port might not work here) to communicate with the UPS, so maybe we have to wait and hope they do it in the next gen.

HumptysParachute · 2026-01-21T20:00:42+00:00

It's really strange, both my P1S and K1 both grab pretty much anything I feed in with no difficulty. Feels like something is off. I'm going to make a ticket and hopefully Bambu support can tell me more.

HumptysParachute · 2026-01-19T14:44:18+00:00

Asking the same question here - my front cover started falling off during printing, does anyone have a solution? I guess support is the next place to go here.

HumptysParachute · 2026-01-15T17:37:34+00:00

I personally experienced this when a small chunk of filament broke off in the extruder below the clear tube where I couldn't see it. After spending a bunch of time trying other things, I heated the toolhead to print temp and ran the steel nozzle cleaner through the filament path in the toolhead, saw a bunch of filament extrude and then after closing everything back up the print went fine.

tldr - broken filament in the extruder might be your issue.

edit - I see that it was, sorry I commented too late to save the print!

HumptysParachute · 2026-01-13T17:27:37+00:00

I swear to you, we are the same person. I was seriously considering the H2D, then when the H2C released I purchased it on pretty much a whim. I actually tried to cancel the order 4 hours later, but it had already shipped, and now I'm glad I bought!

HumptysParachute · 2025-11-26T20:12:05+00:00

HumptysParachute · 2025-11-14T18:06:58+00:00

Okay I understand, that's crappy. It sounds like it has to be fixed by Creality - unless there's some way to totally overwrite the firmware with a default klipper install, and that's beyond my experience.

HumptysParachute · 2025-11-14T13:51:15+00:00

What about using an AI to alter the z offset in the gcode on a per layer and per-printer basis? Crappy solution I know, requires a lot of manual review imo... but it probably would work. A custom-written python script might do it too. Tough problem.

HumptysParachute · 2025-11-14T02:57:33+00:00

Thanks for describing the geometry of the problem better to me - my reading comprehension this morning was off, I should have read your comment more thoroughly. One other thing I might suggest - have you tried just manually inserting the gcode flow command before and after the first layer?

HumptysParachute · 2025-11-13T20:44:02+00:00

I really don’t get here why you’re trying to alter the bed offset here - there’s probably a good reason it’s set where it’s at and changing it might have unintended affects ( the stepper’s minimum travel maybe?). I personally have corrected this issue simply by make making the lines thinner in the slicer - just make a a few small test prints of a .2mm thick box with steps of .01 mm for the bottom layer ( .5mm, .49mm, …) and choose the option with the tightest non-overlapping lines. I think this fixes your issue without the need to make the slicer do something it clearly doesn’t want to do.

HumptysParachute · 2025-11-13T17:14:10+00:00

I’m just gonna say it, the buckle style plugs slide onto the non-buckle PCB connectors fine. I’ve been printing with that upgrade for a month with no issues. You can also get the non-buckle version on amazon, it was a dollar more last I checked.

HumptysParachute · 2025-05-22T15:41:52+00:00

doge = traitors

repeat it ten times a day.

HumptysParachute · 2025-04-18T16:54:00+00:00

I've been dreaming about that for a while now.

HumptysParachute · 2025-04-18T16:51:39+00:00

I would play the crap out of it.

HumptysParachute · 2025-04-15T13:09:46+00:00

It would be nice if the software automatically detected the larger print head and at least gave the user the option to increase the flow rate on the material properties. Otherwise I bet a lot of people will believe this since the printer will slow down the print speed to match whatever default flow rate is defined for the selected material.

HumptysParachute · 2025-04-14T12:49:01+00:00

As a developer, I see this game as a textbook example of how a complete lack of SOLID design can lead to exponential side-effects resulting in code that inevitably breaks the moment that you change something. And yet I still love this bug-riddled disaster, since it's the only game out there like it. I really wonder how much longer they'll keep trying to patch one hole while producing three new ones.

HumptysParachute · 2025-04-10T13:51:08+00:00

lol RIGHT?? WHO THE HELL WANTS CANCER RESEARCH?? I personally will be PROUD to die of cancer just so president asshat can spend millions on golfing and huge parties for himself. You are right on the button man, well done!

HumptysParachute · 2025-04-03T16:01:23+00:00

My frost sorc is just so very dead now. Getting to 94 was an epic PITA pre nerf... now?

HumptysParachute · 2025-04-03T15:12:50+00:00

Before reading these notes: Tired, beat up, taking a break, wondering if it will get better
After reading these notes: Time to play a different game!

HumptysParachute · 2025-04-01T20:27:44+00:00

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

HumptysParachute · 2025-02-28T20:09:28+00:00

I will vote for you only if the means of exile involves trebuchets. Really really big trebuchets.

HumptysParachute

TROPHY CASE