How to Print by Object in Bambu Studio (Print Sequence)

To print by object in Bambu Studio, open the process settings, go to the Others tab, and set Print sequence to By object. Bambu Studio then finishes each object completely before moving to the next, rather than raising every object together one layer at a time. This reduces stringing between parts and contains a failure to a single object instead of the whole plate, at the cost of needing clearance for the gantry to move around finished pieces.

Where to set the print sequence

1. Open the Process settings on the left.
2. Go to the Others tab.
3. Set Print sequence to By object (the default is By layer).

With By object selected, the toolhead builds one part start to finish, then moves on to the next.

When to print by object

By-object printing earns its place in a few situations:

• Less stringing between parts. The nozzle is not hopping between separate objects on every layer, so there is less cross-part stringing and oozing.
• Contained failures. If one part lifts or fails, the others are already done or untouched, instead of the whole plate being ruined at layer 200. This is the big one for production.
• Cleaner multi-part jobs. Each piece gets finished as a unit.

Stick with By layer when parts are tall or packed tightly, because moving around finished objects needs room.

The clearance rules that trip people up

By-object printing only works if the gantry can physically move around parts that are already printed. Bambu Studio enforces this and will warn or block the mode when:

• An object is taller than the gantry clearance, so the toolhead would hit it while printing a neighbor.
• Objects are too close together for the toolhead and its shroud to pass between them.

Space objects out on the plate and keep them under the clearance height. If Bambu Studio flags a collision, that is why. For getting the plate itself sliced and exported once it is arranged, see what slice plate means.

Skipping an object instead of reslicing

Related and useful: if one part fails early, you do not have to scrap the plate or reslice. Right-click an object to exclude it before printing, and on supported Bambu printers you can skip an object mid-print from the printer's screen or Bambu Handy. The rest of the plate carries on.

Why this matters for a print farm

Print sequence is a throughput-versus-risk decision, and at farm scale it is really about not losing a whole plate of finished parts to one bad object. Deciding that per job by hand, and remembering the clearance rules each time, does not scale across a fleet running mixed work.

Printago slices in the cloud with the Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer engines and keeps each product's print settings with the product, so the right print sequence is applied consistently on every machine in the queue. When a part does fail, per-object skipping and automatic job routing keep the rest of the fleet productive. See print farm slicing and the Bambu Lab print farm guide.