Loading PVA for supports
Hello everyone. I am new to this 3d printing thing and have recently acquired a Prusa XL which I need for industrial applications. I have several doubts that have been arising and I really appreciate the help of the forum.
I imagine that I will be opening threads for the different problems that arise. First, when I went to load the soluble PVA filament, I realized that the printer does not appear among the materials available to add.
I have imagined that it is not such a big problem, because from what I have read, it is only used for the initial parameters, while for printing we can configure the material from the PrusaSlicer, but just in case I prefer to ask because I'm quite lost.
Best Answer by NoeG:
This is a known issue.
I load my soluble filament (fibrelogy BVOH) as PVA on the printer. The issue is that you then get a "filament mismatch" warning on the printer, which you have to acknowlege on there. It's annoying.
To avoid this, I've modified the filament profile in prusaslicer, so that the filament type is PVA (and did not change any other settings).
RE: Loading PVA for supports
This is a known issue.
I load my soluble filament (fibrelogy BVOH) as PVA on the printer. The issue is that you then get a "filament mismatch" warning on the printer, which you have to acknowlege on there. It's annoying.
To avoid this, I've modified the filament profile in prusaslicer, so that the filament type is PVA (and did not change any other settings).
There are so many different types of filament that including even a few dozen of them in the printer menu would add too much confusion - so pick the listed filament with the nearest working temperature and override the printer's objection. As @noeg suggests the other option is to spoof the identity in the filament preset. You are likely to generate use-case presets for frequently used filaments so it's not a noticeable overhead.
Cheerio,