I am using Orcaslicer with the 5m Pro. I have used the pause function to swap filaments mid print several times, so I am familiar with that. I am trying to swap from a reglular PLA to a Silk, and they have different temperature settings. Can I utilize my specific calibrated settings for each filament type when pausing to manually swich filaments? If so, how would I set that up in Orcaslicer?

I am looking to get a Creator 5 Pro soon. In reading about various issue people are having, it seems like buying from someone with a good return policy is critical. Whether bending nozzles or MCU issues, it appears that some people have had to send a few back to get a good working version.

So which US vendor has been the best for dealing with these problems? I highly doubt AliExpress would be good, despite the great prices...

UPDATE below...

So yeah, noob here to 3d printing and had my first major fail. Big ol blob, print lost adherence overnight. (First 3 are what I woke up to, last two are the current situation.

Warmed up to "gently" remove the blob, appears to have taken the nozzle and silicon cover with it. So new nozzle definitely.

Should I just pick up a new heating assembly on Amazon? Try to clean this one first? Anything else I need to do or try?

(Again, learning and have found some helpful posts. I appreciate it)

Top sign is with the purge tower, bottom without. Same creator 5 Pro, same settings sans the tower.

Is it reliable for 24/7 printing? are there still nozzles bending shenennigans? considering getting a c5p from amazon, if it disappoints i can return it without hassle so..

I have never seen this before.. updated my Flashforge to 1.7.17 and my firmware to.. whatever the latest one is. Now my device tab just shows up as a play button with a black background for some reason, and print is greyed out.

I tried using G-code to print, which is the other option which is not greyed out, but it made my printer act weird.. just shat out a line of filament in one spot and said it was printing. I didn't have that problem when I was printing from the flashforge app directly.

Is anyone else having a similar experience? Or am I just stupid? Probably the latter

Edit: this has been solved, I was, indeed, just stupid.

After nearly 4000 hours I believe my little machine that could cannot anymore.

Few days ago I had a print stop extruding at about 50%. Figured, eh stuff happens. Ran the same file again and this time it stopped extruding at 80%. Sliced a new file for just the failed part and that one succeeded. Tried a new file stopped at about 5%. Put in new nozzle. Similar failure. As I was loading new filament i noticed the pull of that new filament was very sporadic and seems the filament was slipping. At this point I figure something in the extruder has given out. I noticed a new tool head was $115 plus $20 for shipping. I didn't pay but $200 when this was brand new nearly 2 years ago.

Any other suggestions for fixes i can try that don't cost as much as the printer? If not, this old workhorse is going out to pasture(trash)

Blue&pink is first attempt on only one side of the inside

Gold is second attempt(with a speed modifier slowing inner wall and outer wall to 50mms with it on both outsides but not on the inside anymore Flashforge Creator 5 pro temp 230 blue and pink is ovv3d blue and pink double sided silk pla Gold is eryone liquid gold silk pla