Complete config for offline computers
I work at a school and we have a few Prusa Minis. And we have few thousand computers for our students.
We want to install Prusa Slicer on all of them. Prefarably we want it to be as simple as possible: There should already be a profile and a few filaments preconfigured, so the students don't have to fiddle with the config or the config assistent.
These computers are also behind a firewall that won't allow the download of profiles from the internet. So everything must be provided with the installation.
Which files / folders do we need to provide?
RE: Complete config for offline computers
There may be several ways to do this, but off the top of my head I have one suggestion:
Install PrusaSlicer on a non firewalled computer. Create custom profiles (either based on the downloaded profiles or from scratch) for all the filaments, print, and printers that you plan on using. Use the menu item File/Export/Export Config Bundle... to create an ini file of all the custom profiles. Then when installing PrusaSlicer on the target computer, the first time firing up PrusaSlicer use the menu item File/Import/Import Config... to load all the custom profiles from the master ini file.
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RE: Complete config for offline computers
Yes, that seems like the obvious solution. BUT this still requires the users interaction. I'd prefer it so the students have exactly the same experience with Prusa Slicer like I have AFTER I have configured it. No tinkering at all...
The config-files must be somewhere, where I could install them without user interaction.
RE: Complete config for offline computers
https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/prusaslicer/how-to-silently-install-and-uninstall-prusaslicer/
See my GitHub and printables.com for some 3d stuff that you may like.
RE: Complete config for offline computers
Yes, that seems like the obvious solution. BUT this still requires the users interaction. I'd prefer it so the students have exactly the same experience with Prusa Slicer like I have AFTER I have configured it. No tinkering at all...
The config-files must be somewhere, where I could install them without user interaction.
The config files on my computer (Win11) are at "%APPDATA%\PrusaSlicer". The location of the configuration files is OS dependent. On my install, in the Help menu of PrusaSlicer is "Show Configuration Folder". I can't say if that Help menu item is there on non Winblows systems. (The only other OS that I have PrusaSlicer installed on is a RaspberryOS computer (RPi500), but that computer is at home and I'm at work.)
I have no experience with building an installer that would put the files that you want at that location as part of the install process, so I leave that as an exercise for you. 😉
See my (limited) designs on:
Printables - https://www.printables.com/@Sembazuru
Thingiverse - https://www.thingiverse.com/Sembazuru/designs