Physical Printers for Octopi
Several weeks ago i started using Prusaslicer instead of s3d. During the last days i installed a rasberry pi zero 2 w on my printer (a 9 year old Makergear) and installed Octopi. Now i have to install several physical printers, because i have different extruder settings for different materials and nozzle diameters. For me it would make much more sense to place the Extruder settings into printsettings instead of the printer settings. Printersettings are for me speed, accelaration, dimensions, max, min temperatures ... . Extruder settings differ for me a lot for materials and nozzle diameters as i use a lot of different materials and nozzles. Otherwise it would be o.k. for me, if i could overwrite printersettings in printsettings or filamentsettings.
RE: Physical Printers for Octopi
Extruder settings differ for me a lot for materials and nozzle diameters as i use a lot of different materials and nozzles.
Not sure I understand your problem but that is the logic behind physical printers. A preset for each nozzle size and a physical printer for each preset.
You can create as many presets as you need, for example is might want a preset with different retraction defaults.
Presets contain the info which appears in Printer Settings, Filament and Print settings are independant. The info in physical printer relates to Octoprint (or any other host).
RE: Physical Printers for Octopi
While I understand the logic of the current setup I do sort of agree with OP, when I'm running a different nozzle I end up tweaking quite a few things in print settings to account for that nozzle so why not have the nozzle printer setting in print settings and have the printer settings be for more immutable, set it and forget it settings.
RE: Physical Printers for Octopi
I am also inclined to agree. At the moment I have three physical printers for each of my nozzle sizes.
I would add that the Octoprint settings should be modular. Meaning you can assign a printer to an Octoprint instance rather than having to define that in the each of the settings. It just adds to the management time of the printers which can be somewhat annoying.
Aaron