How Multi Material Methods support works "under the hood"

As hardware allowing you to print with multiple materials, are often essentially an upgrade for your machine that takes over the extrusion, and in a smart and automatic way swap the filament on its own, the SimplyPrint support for this is for the most part - except for material mapping - more or less just visuals and some nice representation of your printer's state.

So when you enable a Multi Material Method for your printer, we have some presets for the hardware we know we support; here we know the amount of materials the given hardware allows you to print with, if it allows chaining and mapping, along with an image of the product and some info and links.

But, this info, we use to update your printer's settings, specifically the Advanced setting called "Printer hotend(s) & extruder(s)", where we say "Number of extruders: [amount of materials the hardware lets you print with]", and tick on the "Shared nozzle?" option - and that enables the basic support, as essentially what these hardware add-ons do for your printer, is to make them multi-extruder printers with just 1 nozzle! (in most cases).

This means that you should not be confused, or change the setting if you see it in your Advanced printer settings.

Are we missing a method?

Reach out if you think we're missing support for some awesome hardware! Chances are we already support it, but just don't have a preset for it yet.