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Filament type

The spool's material: PLA, PETG, ABS, TPU… Temperatures, fan and suitable plates all depend on it.

How it works

Every filament profile has its type, and the rest of the profile is built for that material: temperatures, fan, compatible plates. In the tab it's grayed out: you don't change it here, you change it by picking another filament profile.

The program also uses it to match the profile with the filament loaded in the printer and with the calibration results you saved.

When to change it

  • You bought a spool from a brand with no profile of its own: pick the generic profile of the same type (“Generic PETG”, for example) and adjust from there.
  • A “PLA+” or “Silk PLA” spool: it's still PLA. Use a PLA profile and find the temperature with the tower in the Calibration menu.

Typical values

ValueWhat for
PLAThe easiest; open printerdefault
PETGTougher and handles more heat
ABS / ASAHeat and outdoors; enclosed printer
TPUFlexible; prints slowly

Watch out for

  • Picking a PLA profile to print PETG leaves PLA temperatures: the type and the values go together in the profile.
  • ABS and ASA shrink a lot as they cool: on an open printer like the A1 they lift and crack easily.

Goes well with

Nozzle: Other layersTextured PEI Plate: Other layersSoftening temperature
What Bambu Studio saysits help card, quoted

What Bambu Studio says

The material type of filament

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 · PLA

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

In other slicers

Orca Slicer
TypeFilament › Basic information
PrusaSlicer
Filament typeAdvanced › 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