current method to connect all printing profiles to all printers
Hey printer people,
i managed to almost understand the physical vs normal printer configuration, but i still have the issue that i cant reliably connect my printing profiles to the printers.
I had hoped that they would tackle this in 2.6 but i seems that hasnt changed.
i know this has been asked here a lot but is there any good tutorial or trick that sheds some new light on this whole complex?
Cheers. F.
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The current method is clunky but workable but not well documented.
A printer profile specifies printer-type specific information such as nozzle diameter, startup gcode, acceleration limits, etc. If you have several printers of the same kind , they would share those profiles.
A physical printer profile provides specific connection information for a given printer. Octoprint, Prusalink, PrusaConnect, Astroprint, etc. So say you have three Mk4, they'd all share the same printer profile(s) but each one would have a separate and unique physical printer profile, detailing how to connect to each.
Where it becomes non-intuitive--until you know how to do it—, is how to associate a physical printer profile with several printer profiles. Say you frequently print with a 0.4 mm nozzle in your three Mk3S printers, but occasionally with a 0.25 and a 0.8 mm nozzle. So you would create a printer profile for each nozzle size. Then you create a physical printer profile for each specific printer with its respective connection information.
Here's the trick. Open a physical printer profile and use the plus button to add the other two physical printer profile. Now within each physical printer profile you should now have the connection info for that printer AND the three printer profile, one for each nozzle size--nicely bundled together.
Hope that helps. It's not the most straightforward way I think this could have been implemented but once you got it, it works.
Still has some limitations. For example, each of my Minis has different PID tuning that can't be saved to EEPROM but needs to be provided via startup gcode. So I need separate printer profiles for each printer even though this is clearly an attribute of the physical printer but there's no way to override anything but the physical connection information in a physical printer profile, and as a result I have an unnecessary inflation of printer profiles in Prusaslicer.
Formerly known on this forum as @fuchsr -- until all hell broke loose with the forum software...
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Yes, i managed to get so far and i get that it could make sense to have the octoprint info seperatly. however when i connect the normal printer in the physical printer menu, i get these "physical printer * normal" printer profiles and i always have to reconnect them when i change something.
but the more interesting question is, if there is a way connect the printing profiles more effective other that having to manually edit the metadata of the profile-file.