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Chris Young
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Confusion about Nozzle Size Printer Setting instead of Print setting

I am confused as to why this is the way it is, I am sure there's a reason and someone can explain it to me. While I understand the nozzle size is a physical printer change in nature, in practice it's a print setting IMO.

These drop downs in my slicer are a mess. They could be cleaned up significantly if nozzle size was not a printer setting I feel. I want to be able to change nozzle size without having to setup the whole wifi connection to my printer every time, and then save that profile. It's incredibly redundant when testing minute changes between printers/profiles/nozzles. I understand this just moves the profiles to a different drop down, and the mess remains, but at least I don't need to setup a wifi connection every single time. 

I feel like Picking nozzle Size in an independent drop down, then layer height, then printer would make a lot more sense from a user perspective. That way the user sets their printer up to wifi once. 

I am sure I am missing the usefulness of this feature, but to me, it's a burden. I feel like it makes my slicer a disorganized mess that's harder to navigate because of it.

I have 2 printers, each one has a profile for nozzle sizes from .2-.8 at .2 increments. Does that not seem unneccessarily redundant to anyone else that I had to type out wifi info 8 times for 2 printers? 

Between System Presets, User Presets, and "physical printers" I have 15 selections for 2 printers. Maybe this is a workflow issue and I'm doing something wrong?

Opublikowany : 01/12/2024 3:29 am
FoxRun3D
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RE: Confusion about Nozzle Size Printer Setting instead of Print setting

It is a hot mess, especially if you have multiple printers, with different nozzles types and/or sizes.

There are several requests on Github with suggestions on how to rein this chaos in.

E.g.:

https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues/13634

https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues/6148

https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues/6820

So far they have fallen on deaf ears with Prusa developers.

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Opublikowany : 01/12/2024 11:14 pm
FoxRun3D
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Having said that, from your description it sounds you may be able to simplify things for your specific setup. You don't have to set up a separate physical printer for each nozzle config:

Create User presets for each nozzle. Then create a physical printer. The "secret" is to click on the small Plus icon next to the physical printer name and add more user presets to that physical printer. It's absolutely non-obvious.

Here's an example for one of my printers, which has 2 different nozzle sizes plus a HF nozle associated with it

 

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Opublikowany : 01/12/2024 11:23 pm
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