Comment by _zoltan_

13 hours ago

at home printing values, is filament waste really such a problem?

I understand OSS people don't like Bambu, but as pure end user, they are great and well put together.

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_zoltan_

I’d say the level of waste from filament switching is a disaster. But many people are used to it which I find crazy.

It can be multiple times the weight of the actual thing you’re printing. Exactly how bad depends on the model. Here’s an extreme version:

It makes one of those little color blobs every single time it changes colors.

Waste is waste, if you end up using 2 to 4 times the filament (depending on the number of colour change) it's still something to account for.

This might seems like a lot but this is the reality of the system.

Well depends on what a problem for you is. But the purging on complex models can be more plastic then the model itself needs.

And it also takes time. The difference can be a few hours vs a day of print time. Plenty of videos online that show case examples.