Filament profiles with multiple printers
Hi all. Tried to find a simple solution to my problem but not finding what I'm looking for. I have 6 Prusa printers. When I'm in Prusaslicer and select printer 'A', I have a list of my filaments. But I switch to printer 'B' and not all of the same filament profiles are there. I have read so much that I'm totally confused on what to do. I hate the thought of having to start a new profile for each of the 'missing' filaments. Is there an easy solution or should I get to making new filament profiles?
Any help would be appreciated by this old guy.
Best Answer by vhubbard:
The Filament configuration Wizard, from my slicer with all the printer configurations I have selected.
Click to view.
In the configuration Wizard, Filaments, "All" selection is the master area to enable/disable filaments in the menus. Those with a "*" are not compatible with "All" printers. This means they are not MMUx or all nozzle sizes compatable. If switching between MMU and non MMU machines, or even nozzle sizes, some filaments selected for ALL will not show up for the printer selected. All the carbon fiber elements disappear when I pick a 0.3mm nozzle machine.
You can configure each printer definition individually, but I find selecting All filaments I use under All is easiest and then let the filter work.
Usable filaments may not have been qualified yet for the configuration. Until there is a filament configuration that matches the machines nozzle and mmu it wont show up.
If you want to add a filament to a printer that is not listed, it is custom profile time.
We need good configuration data for the filaments. Vendors need to be involved in providing full configuration data if they want to sell filament in my opinion. Filament is useless without the data to run it.
RE: Filament profiles with multiple printers
The Filament configuration Wizard, from my slicer with all the printer configurations I have selected.
Click to view.
In the configuration Wizard, Filaments, "All" selection is the master area to enable/disable filaments in the menus. Those with a "*" are not compatible with "All" printers. This means they are not MMUx or all nozzle sizes compatable. If switching between MMU and non MMU machines, or even nozzle sizes, some filaments selected for ALL will not show up for the printer selected. All the carbon fiber elements disappear when I pick a 0.3mm nozzle machine.
You can configure each printer definition individually, but I find selecting All filaments I use under All is easiest and then let the filter work.
Usable filaments may not have been qualified yet for the configuration. Until there is a filament configuration that matches the machines nozzle and mmu it wont show up.
If you want to add a filament to a printer that is not listed, it is custom profile time.
We need good configuration data for the filaments. Vendors need to be involved in providing full configuration data if they want to sell filament in my opinion. Filament is useless without the data to run it.
RE: Filament profiles with multiple printers
I have a bunch of filaments that aren't listed in the wizard. So, for the time being, I'll just have to add them manually. Thanks for the quick response.