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Soluble material

Marks the filament as soluble: a support you remove by dissolving it, usually in water.

How it works

Some support filaments, like PVA or BVOH, dissolve in water. Used for the support layer that touches the part, they wash off and the underside comes out clean, with no tear marks.

It's a profile flag: it comes set in those filaments' profiles and the program uses it to know which ones suit support.

When to change it

  • The soluble filament's profile sets it; don't turn it on for a normal PLA.

Typical values

ValueWhat for
OffPLA Basicdefault
OnPVA, BVOH

Watch out for

  • Soluble filaments soak up moisture very quickly: keep them dry or they won't print well.
  • Only shown with Develop mode turned on in Preferences.

Goes well with

Support materialSupport/raft interface
What Bambu Studio saysits help card, quoted

What Bambu Studio says

Soluble material is commonly used to print support and support interface

Bambu Studio tooltip for this setting · AGPL-3.0

Read more at the official source

Bambu Lab wiki (index)
In your profileBambu PLA Basic @BBL A1 · No

In Bambu Studio, the profile Bambu PLA Basic @BBL A1 sets it toNo

In other slicers

Orca Slicer
Soluble materialFilament › Basic information
PrusaSlicer
Soluble materialAdvanced › Filament properties
Cura
No clear equivalent.

Names taken from each program's code (Orca Slicer 2.4.2, PrusaSlicer 2.9.6, Cura 5.13.0). Credits