I accidentally got the PETG filament instead of the PLA which I normally work with. I have an Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro.

Here’s what was weird:

  • The test strip went across the bottom of the board instead of the side. It went back to the side when I put the PLA back in.

  • The temperture melting point changed automatically from 200 F to 220 and then back again when I switched back to PLA.

Does the printer know what kind of filament I’m using and if so, how?

ETA: The filaments have all been the Elegoo brand filaments.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️English
    4•24 hours ago

    It’s a transparent attempt to lock you in to buying their filament. If you want to know how the community at large feels about this, just go to your favorite objects repository and see how many solutions people have developed for ripping the RFID tags out of the Bambu spools and integrating them into spools from other brands just to make the damn machine happy with it.

    It really doesn’t add any “godsending.” It’s not difficult to, when you stick a new spool of filament in the machine, tell your slicer what that spool was. It’s not like you’re changing spools every 30 seconds, especially if your machine has some manner of multi-spool box like the AMS or various other brands’ versions of the same.