How to Add a Custom Filament Profile in Bambu Studio

To add a custom filament profile in Bambu Studio, clone the closest generic preset, adjust its settings, and save it under a new name. Bambu Studio ships presets for Bambu's own filament and the common generics, but the moment you load a third-party spool (Sunlu, eSun, Inland, Polymaker) you usually want your own tuned profile. Here is how to make one and how to import profiles others have made.

Create a custom profile from a generic

1. In the filament dropdown, select the closest generic preset, such as Generic PLA or Generic PETG.
2. Adjust the settings for your spool: nozzle and bed temperature to the manufacturer's recommended range, plus flow ratio and cooling if you have tuned them.
3. Click the save icon next to the filament dropdown and save it under a clear name, for example Sunlu PLA Meta or eSun PETG.

It now appears in your filament list and can be assigned to any project. Starting from the matching generic matters: it inherits sensible defaults so you only change what is actually different about your filament.

Profiles for third-party brands

There is rarely an official Bambu preset for Sunlu, eSun, Inland, or other third-party brands, which is why people search for them. The reliable approach is to build your own:

• Clone the right generic (PLA, PETG, ABS, TPU).
• Set temperatures to the spool's label or the maker's spec sheet.
• Run a quick flow and temperature calibration if you want it dialed in, then bake the results into the profile.
• Save it under the brand and material so it is easy to pick later.

Import a profile someone else made

If a vendor or another user provides a profile file, import it rather than rebuilding it by hand. Bambu Studio brings in profile files and bundles through its import option, and they land in your filament presets ready to use. This is the same idea as exporting and importing settings in OrcaSlicer, which makes sense given the two slicers share a lineage (see Bambu Studio vs the OrcaSlicer family).

Why this matters for a print farm

A filament profile is data that should belong to the material, not to one copy of Bambu Studio on one desk. In a farm, the same spool of Sunlu PLA might run on any machine, and every machine needs the same tuned settings or you get inconsistent prints. Maintaining that by hand across a fleet does not hold up.

Printago treats materials as first-class: profiles attach to the material and are applied automatically wherever that material prints. Printago slices in the cloud supporting both Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer as engines, and imports your Bambu Studio filament profiles directly, so the profile you just made comes straight into the cloud slicer instead of being rebuilt. See Bambu Studio in the cloud and material intelligence, how to set up a 3D print farm for the bigger picture, and the Bambu Studio CLI reference for automating the engine.