How to Install Filament Profiles, 3D-Fuel PCTG 0.4HF 0.6HF nozzles
I purchased some 3D Fuel PCTG to try out from Amazon, and found these profiles online:
https://support.3dfuel.com/hc/en-us/articles/22046343945495-Pro-PCTG-Print-Profiles
It turns out that importing them into your configuration is way harder than I expected. For three reasons:
- The .ini file provided by 3D fuel has an error in it and hasn't been updated to support the CORE ONE
- The import configuration menu item is very buggy, and if it encounters an error just gives you a profile with no data in it, no error
- Everyone has a different answer for how to install third party profiles into PrusaSlicer that don't actually work.
Through a lot of file sleuthing, I finally found a way to install profiles easily without having to import anything to the main profile.
To import custom profile .ini files:
- Under the Help Menu in PrusaSlicer, select "Show Configuration Folder"
- Copy your .ini file into the filament folder, named with the name you want to show up in the filament menu
- Restart PrusaSlicer
To make the 3D-Fuel Pro PCTG configuration work, I had to copy it into two separate files, one for the .4mm nozzle, and one for the .6mm nozzle. I also had to go into the code and add the COREONE to the list of compatible printers, and fix an error in the .4mm nozzle file:
change:
compatible_printers_condition = printer_model=~/(MK4S|MK4SMMU3|MK3.9S|MK3.9SMMU3)/ and nozzle_diameter[0]!=0.8 and nozzle_diameter[0]!=0.6 and nozzle_diameter[0]!=0.5 and printer_notes=~/.*HF_NOZZLE.*/
to
compatible_printers_condition = printer_model=~/(MK4S|MK4SMMU3|MK3.9S|MK3.9SMMU3|COREONE)/ and nozzle_diameter[0]!=0.8 and nozzle_diameter[0]!=0.6 and nozzle_diameter[0]!=0.5 and nozzle_high_flow[0]
On the Core One, I also had to add a new Custom Filament type, PCTG, because it was not listed in the menu. Because the profile is based on PETG, maybe that is what you should select, but I took the parameters from the .ini file and used them to create a custom filament.
I am doing my first print onto a textured sheet now, and will try to post my results.
YMMV!
RE: How to Install Filament Profiles, 3D-Fuel PCTG 0.4HF 0.6HF nozzles
I had no problem importing the .ini file that I downloaded from 3D-Fuel's page using the "File/Import/Import Config Bundle..." menu item. The trick then was finding the imported profiles. They won't be at the top of the list with all the other 3D-Fuel filaments, rather they will be at the bottom of the list in the "User presets" section. Also, they'll only show if you have either a MK4S HF0.4 or MK4S HF0.6 printer selected. I go into 3 ways of finding the imported profiles in this thread. It's a bit long winded and I don't want to crosspost. Once you can access the profiles, you can change the compatible printers line and save the edited profile all within PrusaSlicer as you describe above. (Less chance of accidentally breaking something from hand-editing .ini files.)
My first shipment of PCTG should be arriving today via UPS, so hopefully I'll be printing with it soon. Granted, I'm on a MK4S currently (waiting for the CORE One conversion kit backlog to quiet down before I order so I'm charged close to when it ships...).
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