Setting at startup
Guys,
I have found a number of articles concerning this issue, and, to the best of my observation, I cannot find a definitive answer. But I'll ask it again...
There are a couple of settings that I would like the be "fixed", in that I want them already set each and every time I start PrusaSlicer. I have tried setting them, then saving, and they are always back to "factory" the next time I open PrusaSlicer.
1) I would like infill percentage to remain set to 10%. I almost always use this setting, but I sometimes forget, and end up with a much longer and consumptive print than I really want or need.
2) I would like the colors of the palette to remain as I've set them when I paint the model on the plater. There are at least two colors that will nearly always be used in the part that I print most often, and a third that seems to be at least one of the colors that most of my customers want. It would be nice to not have to reset my palette each and every time I open the slicer, even when I reopen a saved project.
I've tried multiple examples of guidance given in articles I've found while searching for an answer, but each time I reopen the slicer, they are back to the default settings. I've even done the "Save as copy", only to find these default settings in that copy when reopened. What am I missing? There has to be a way to save these two settings globally, so they are preset at open of the slicer.
Thanks. Brad.
RE: Setting at startup
1 seems straightforward. Set up your settings such as 10% infill and save it as a custom print profile. I don't think there's a way to change infill to a certain value globally across all profiles. Or maybe I'm missing something.
2 I don't think it can be done. You can set the default color in the printer profile or the filament profile. But I don't see a way to change the color palette.
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RE: Setting at startup
Quite simply put there is no way to make it do all you want. Unless you modify the code to do so.
Prusa Slicer saves the last used profiles used in the PrusaSlicer.ini file in its preferences folder. Those are the SAVED versions of the profiles, not with any modifications you happen to have done to them and not saved. SO for example
[presets] filament = Extrudr PETG @PG 0.6 physical_printer = print = 0.32mm SPEED @MK4IS 0.6 printer = Original Prusa MK4 Input Shaper 0.6 nozzle sla_material = sla_print =
But in Prusa Slicer those could be showing as 0.32mm Speed (Modified) if I had sliced with some unchanged settings.
If I close PS down and re-open then it will load the 3 profiles, in their SAVED form.
Settings such as colour palettes are not saved ANYWHERE. So you are out of luck there completely. The base colour of a filament is saved as part of the Filament profile though so you can save custom versions of your filaments with a specific colour. If you create some on the palette those are not saved at all. So one filament profile= one saved colour saved along with it.
Of course if you have a Printer Settings>Extruder>Preview colour set for a particular extruder then it doesnt matter what your filament profile is set to as the extruder definitions will be used. That setting is saved when you save a custom Printer profile.
You HAVE to save any modified profiles either as a proper copy on your system so that it gets added to the drop down lists OR save them in a project in which case they get saved inside the project but not permanently to your system.
Next we come to Projects. Opening a Saved project will load in whatever the 3 in use profiles were AND it also saves any modifications to the profiles in use. It will load the base profiles in from the configuration folder and apply the stored different settings.
Thats the closest you will be able to get to making PS remember a particular combination of selected profiles, extruders colour assignments etc.
SO remember even if you save a bunch of things into a project so that you can open it later and get back to that setup/state Prusa Slicer will still add the base profiles saved to the PrusaSlicer.ini file and that is what you will get next time you open it.