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Thanks! I was able to detach the bowden tubes, "unload" from the print menu, manually pull out the orphaned length of filament from the extruder, and put everything back together without too much trouble. I did get some weird almost kinked extrusion when I first reloaded the material, but that seems to have worked its way out. Thanks again for the advice.

@SandervG OK. Thanks, I'll give it a shot and report back. btw, did i miss a link here? ? thanks again!

Hi @SandervG, yup thats correct, came to find that the filament ran out of the spool. When I tried to unload the material as per usual, the motor did not seem to be gripping anything and the filament was not moving. I have an Ultimaker 3, Would that make a substantial difference in how i remedy this? Basically I imagine that this must happen to people all the time (there really should be a sensing mechanism to prevent this) and was wondering if anyone had any tips for me so i dont destroy my printer as i attempt to unclip the bowden tube and pull out the filament for the first time! Any particular step by step info on how to safely do this would be greatly appreciated (eg. how to unclip the tube, does the nozzle have to be hot when i pull out the filament, etc.) Thanks!

Hi Les, This just happened to me for the first time as well. I assume you figured it out alright. Any tips/things to avoid when extracting the rogue filament? Thanks!