Change default settings in Preview
Hi,
Bare with me if this is obvious to everybody else...but I’m totally new to the whole 3D-printing thing. 🙂
In Preview-View-*scroll list* my settings always goes back to “Tool” after a slice. And from what I have seen in YouTube videos, that’s not the case for everybody else.
So I guess this can be set somehow...but where?
Have to click and scroll to “Feature types” after each change is annoying and time consuming.
Thanks in advance!
/AL
RE: Change default settings in Preview
same problem and same question....
RE: Change default settings in Preview
Mine always changes to Feature in the left hand drop down after it slices and changes to the preview window. Even when I don't want it to, say when I want to look at speeds and was looking at that before. So the same behaviour but with a different value, that just happens to be the one you want. I have never seen any way to set it though. For me it always goes to the first in the list which is Feature Type
RE: Change default settings in Preview
Really strange.
I will see if any further evaluation can give any clues about this.
Any suggestion or report about how yours behave is helpful.
RE: Change default settings in Preview
Maybe related to gui language (I'm Italian) or configuration? (I have 2 extruder)
RE: Change default settings in Preview
I’m running a MMU2, if that makes a difference.
Slicer set to English.
RE: Change default settings in Preview
I recently encountered this mystery myself and this thread was the only thing I could find mentioning it.
I dug into the code and found that the tool v.s. feature type difference is based on whether you have more than one extruder (I guess the tool view isn't much use if you don't)
There didn't seem to be any existing way to set a different default, so I wrote a patch that adds a "Remember preview view type" option to the general preferences:
https://ion.nu/tmp/prusaslicer_rememberpreview.patch
RE: Change default settings in Preview
@alicia
I'm not sure how a patch works, but if it is something you want included in the main PrusaSlicer build, it is better to make an issue on GitHub - this way the developers of PS will see it.
Have a look at my models on Printables.com 😉
RE: Change default settings in Preview
Be aware that SuperSlicer, based on PrusaSlicer, handles a lot of these features differently. If you're seeing different behavior in YouTube videos, check to see if they're using a variant slicer.
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RE: Change default settings in Preview
@area51
I'm not up for pushing for upstream to merge patches. I have it in my own build and that's enough for me.
I shared it in case anyone else wants it in their own builds, but if anyone wants to push upstream to merge it that's great.
To apply a patch: run the command 'patch -p1 -i prusaslicer_rememberpreview.patch' in the source directory, with the patch file in the same directory
RE: Change default settings in Preview
@alicia
Just wanted to point out, that this is mainly a user to user forum and the developers at Prusa is not participating in the threads here.
You don't have to send a patch if not ready for it, but a feature request with the good ideas would be a start to get the UI changed.
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RE: Change default settings in Preview
Just checked and has been logged (View mode reverts to "tool".#4458) so linked it to this thread. Vote up the GitHub thread?
RE: Change default settings in Preview
I'm pretty sure this is one of the changes in the up coming release 2.3.0.
Try and see the change log for the current RC1 and earlier alpha and betas on GitHub.
The alpha and beta versions has been stable enough that I have used then on a daily basis for some time.
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