I can’t seem to find a REAL answer to this.
I have the HI Combo. I use Creality Print (currently v6.3 I think). I have custom filaments inputted, etc. Choosing a custom filament from the drop down list works fine and is easy to do for the CFS (In the Creality Print software).
The issue I have is when I want to use custom filament ON THE SPOOL HOLDER.
Someone suggested adding a 5th filament on the Filament menu on the right side of the screen, and assigning the custom filament from the drop down list. It shows it to be CFS…When I try to change it to EXT, it switches back to GENERIC.
Clicking on the Box labeled EXT (above the CFS area) does nothing. I ASSUME this stands for external and is for the spool holder. (am I wrong on that??)
Other things I do: I always right click on the model and pick filament from the list (its on the bottom of the list). So I choose #5…. ASSUMING it will use the custom filament SETTINGS for the filament on the spool, that I have assigned to slot #5, EVEN THOUGH IT IS LABLED CFS
Yes… It will use the spool on the spool holder because I choose that when I start the print, but how do I know that it is using the settings I have for that particular custom filament, and not the settings for “Generic”.
Perhaps it is… I have no idea.
Creality Print needs to rethink the UI when choosing the spool holder. It NEEDS to show the CUSTOM Filament name in the EXT box. Having to list and add a 5th filament inside the CFS area is simply stupid. The spool holder isn’t part of the CFS. What if you don’t have a CFS? What if you have 2, 3 or even 4 CFS units… do you have to add a 17th filament for the Spool… will it even LET you add 17 filaments???
Even when I disconnect the CFS, I cannot pick the filament for the spool holder.
PLEASE… what am I missing?
Google is no help, as it tells me to do things that aren’t there, or simply doesn’t work.
As far as the CFS, that part is all fairly intuitive and works well enough.
Yes, thats what im doing to. Right click to choose the filament, slice it and when it sends to the printer window choose the EXT .
And im on creality print 7. It needs alot of work.
I finally found someone else that is pulling their hair out over this issue! We need to be able to select the spool holder before slicing because in the global area for objects it only has the cfs materials to pick from and when you slice the print it slices it using the wrong type filament and settings for that filament! result= scrap!! i use my spool holder for tpu only and cant choose spool holder for the print until after slicing and sending to print which produces scrap every single time because the printer uses the complete wrong settings for tpu! so i did add an extra filament in the cfs auto mapping area and changed the cfs designation to ext so i can choose that material before slicing and then also when sending it to print and that way i have the right settings for tpu before slicing! The problem with that is then your cfs mapping has a filament that says ext in it and you have one more filament then cfs slots! So then what i did was changed one of the filaments in the cfs auto mapping area to tpu and left it cfs designation and picked that slot over in the global objects material menu, then sliced it and send to print and it has the right settings for tpu that way before slicing. But then you have to remember to change that slot back to match the filament in the cfs before you resume using your cfs next time otherwise the filament actually loaded in the cfs doesnt match the automapping! Creality needs to fix the problem! These guys have no clue what they are doing and thats just sad! Anyways hope these two work arounds help you until someone pulls their head out of their you know whats at creality and fixes this issue! Its a complete joke that the cfs doesnt handle tpu anyways and you cant put tpu directly in using the printer screen because you cant even fake the printer out in order to adjust the temperatures you need for the filament you have in the spool holder! I really dont think creality thought about all this during design and testing But that creality for ya!! try getting customer support for this issue too or any issue and they cant even understand what your trying to explain to them so you may as well just forget it and save yourself the stress of dealing with them!
Yeah, this is really stupid, and I tried the 7.0 version and immediately uninstalled it due to it being hot garbage. I know this worked before, in previous versions, but it seems like in 6.3 it does not. I will report back here when i find which version broke it, because I am damn sure not going to be using 7 for a while.