Managing Printers, Nozzle, and Speed  

RE: Managing Printers, Nozzle, and Speed

I have set a max volumetric on my filament.

I go with about 11.5mm3 for PLA on my Delta (Flsun QQ-s) in the filament-tab.

For ABS/ASA i have 13mm3 as they can tolerate much higher temp without stringing badly (atleast on my machine).

I have one filament-setting for 0.4nozzle with what works good.

Then one for the 0.6nozzle, i have about 5c more temp in this one.

Then i can vary the speed and line-width with different printer-profiles.

I have for ex base: 80mm/s, 3wall, 15% infill for both my 0.4 and 0.6 nozzle.

Then i vary the line-width, saving one for each profile. For 0.4nozzle i have: Default, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 line width.

For 0.6nozzle i have: Default, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0 line width.

I have run some calibrations as for speeds, temps and volumetrics for my printer.
Your milage might vary.

RE: Managing Printers, Nozzle, and Speed

Its best to have different Print profiles for different nozzle widths anyway, as leaving things like extrusion widths to the defaults can result in sub optimal results.  If you are doing that then it makes sense to have the speeds also set.  Its how the default Prusa ones are done too, there are different ones depending on the nozzle size.

As mentioned the Max Volumetric acts as a speed cap that limits the top speed of all extrusion types but that doesn't help with proportionally acting on speeds between the types of extrusion.  It can be set in either the filament profiles (which it is on the prusa filament profiles) or can also be configured in the print profiles (where it isn't by default).  PS will use the lower of either value.  Its a good setting for controlling between PLA and PETG for example but I don't think its a lot of help with different nozzle sizes.

RE: Managing Printers, Nozzle, and Speed

Thanks for the replies!  It feels like Prusa Slicer could really benefit from folders for organizing the myriad of profiles I'm about to create.  I have 3 different printers, so that creates a lot of potential print settings / filament settings since each of these have variables that are tied into the printer & print nozzle.

Maybe I should just thin the herd and stick to one printer....

RE: Managing Printers, Nozzle, and Speed

YOU JUST CHANGED MY LIFE

I hadn't really explored the "Profile Dependencies" tab.  That really clears everything up and makes using Prusa Slicer so much easier.

Do you know where the settings folder is?  And can it be sync'd between multiple computers with something like Resilio without a bunch of errors?

Thanks so much!

RE: Managing Printers, Nozzle, and Speed

Posted by: @wyzurd

[...] I hadn't really explored the "Profile Dependencies" tab.  That really clears everything up and makes using Prusa Slicer so much easier.

It's a little funky, but I find it works well. Glad it's useful.

Do you know where the settings folder is?  And can it be sync'd between multiple computers with something like Resilio without a bunch of errors?

I'm on MacOS, so it's under the Application Support folder. I know a similar structure exists for Windows, but I can't tell you where. I have read of people synchronizing the folder to a network drive, but haven't done that myself.

Here's a relevant discussion on reddit. I know you can use --datadir to point to a network share.

RE: Managing Printers, Nozzle, and Speed

Also have a look here https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/prusaslicer/portable-install/

I installed it to a network share i have in my network.

Should also work on a usb for portability.

The Prusaslicer dir stores stuff under: c:\Users\[USER]\appdata\Roaming\PrusaSlicer\

On my windows 10 atleast.