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Wandering Wally
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Opening a 5 color model that defaults to each color going to a certain toolhead. But I need to load the filament to different spools

Opening a 5 color model that defaults to each color going to a certain toolhead. Which works if I load filament according to that, but I am troubleshooting the Prusa crashing so I need to switch things around. In these screenshots you can see how the model loaded with the colors looking fine, but in reality the color of the filaments in each toolhead do not match the model.

I only took a screenshot of the Toolhead 5 filament but I have loaded the filament as follows- TH1 black, TH2 Giantarm brown, TH3 white, TH4 bone white, TH5 wood brown. In the top left of the first screenshot the number for the grams used for each color are accurate but the toolheads assigned to those colors are not what I assigned

Using the painting tool is too time consuming and doesnt always wok as intended because in the current model each part has the correct color but using the paint tool to change the color may change the 4 color head to 1 color then it gets tricky reconstructing each area- eyes, pupils, mask, etc. In Bambu slicer it is simple to assign the correct spool according to the model.

In Prusa Slicer and on the printer I have used tool mapping once or twice successfully but most of the time I get something wrong.

I have used this page to do the toolmapping on the computer in Prusa Slicer. I cant remember if these led to successful prints. I do know that at least once I correctly mapped the filaments on the printer but more often then not I screwed something up. https://www.printables.com/article/how-to-assign-spooljoin-filament-from-prusaconnect-rZvbwjZ and this page https://help.prusa3d.com/article/tools-mapping-and-filament-mapping-xl-mmu3_732461

Does anyone have suggestions?

The reason I have switched around the order of the filaments is because my printer has been randomly crashing with an EXTERNAL THERMAL RUNAWAY  error. I have chatted with Prusa tech support several times. I have tested each toolhead thermistor and each heatend thermistor and they all are within the correct range. Tech support suggested  printing a ghost print of a single gear hoping it would crash.  it didn't cause a crash so I filled up the bed with these gears, printed them as a ghost print for about 30 hours until it "finished". Even the 30 hour ghost print didnt crash it. Looking at the 3 different models that have crashed with that error I have been able to rule out th 4 and 5. I think th 2 is also ruled out now after looking at the which toolheads could have been printing at the time of the crash. Unfortunately I haven't ever paid attention to which toolhead was left out when the printer crashed. If we can get it to crash with the same error then Tech support think it will be that dwarf board that is causing the problem.

Anyone have thoughts or suggestions? 

Thanks

Posted : 13/01/2026 12:14 am
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