save as an existing profile  

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Just save it with a new name. You can't over-write the system profiles.

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I’m missing something simple but I can only see the option to save a project. 

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floppy icon next to the profile name

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I was looking on the plater page. Not the relevant Printer/filament page

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Saving a project is different from saving a profile.

You can save profiles for Print, Filament and Printers using the floppy disc symbol as described above.  The only limitation is it has to have a different name to the built in system presets but you can over write your own custom ones.  Prusa dont allow you to over write the defaults as when it does an update that would also over write your changes so they sidestep the issue by not allowing it in the first place.

Saving a project is done on the from the top menu File > Save Project As then save it as a .3mf file.  This not only saves the contents of the plater (models and modifiers etc) but it also saves ALL the settings from the Print, Filament and Printer profile currently loaded at the same time so its more like a complete snapshot of Prusa Slicer at the time.

This has the added bonus of making it possible to import the configuration data (print, filament and printer settings) from a previously saved project using the file menu too.  

As an aside one thing its good to get into the habit of is export your configurations as a config bundle and saving them somewhere safe.  That way if you had to reinstall or set up on a different machine you can just import the config bundle and get all your presets back as they were.

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Thanks - Project save is very clear as it is in the menu

Profile save not so - which was my question.

In this regard the Prusaslicer hides certain menus in the mouse right click such as Mirror which isn't very user friendly 

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@john-h68

Sorry thought I'd cover both bases 🙂  We get people who dont know you can even save a project or the benefits it allows so thought I'd include in case someone does a web search and finds this thread later.

Until Prusa actually get around to doing an up to date manual all we have is these types of threads.

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No problem - thank for your comments

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Something else about the mirror functionality you mentioned, if you select a part and change the co-ordinates used from World to local the mirror shortcut icons appear in the right hand menu.  World co-ordinates are the default and so a mirror (if you could apply it at that level) would theoretically mirror the part in respect to the print bed, so flip it over from one side to the other position wise too.

With the coordinates set to local the software then knows you want to mirror around its internal axis.  Just another one of those features/functions you have to stumble across by accident until a manual is available.