Ivan
Posts: 4
Joined: Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:45 am

FFF profile autoconfigure material suggestion

Whils fine editing my FFF profiles I noticed I cant affect the speed parameter nor the use of retraction with the Material auto configure menu. This could be very usefull when quickly selecting a custom predefined profile for flexible filaments or some filaments with expceptional settings apart from the normal ones.

This can be easily done by manually editing the FFF profile when its exported, which to be honest im fine with reviewing because i usually wanna take a look there if I didnt mess some of the settings.

To be exact in my case I wanted to set a nice quick menu for my TPE filament

<autoConfigureMaterial name="TPE">
<globalExtruderTemperature>230</globalExtruderTemperature>
<globalBedTemperature>80</globalBedTemperature>
<globalExtrusionMultiplier>1</globalExtrusionMultiplier>
<fanSpeed>
<setpoint layer="1" speed="0"/>
<setpoint layer="2" speed="50"/>
</fanSpeed>
<defaultSpeed>1200</defaultSpeed>
<extruder name="Primary Extruder">
<toolheadNumber>0</toolheadNumber>
<diameter>0.3</diameter>
<autoWidth>0</autoWidth>
<width>0.33</width>
<extrusionMultiplier>1</extrusionMultiplier>
<useRetract>0</useRetract>
<retractionDistance>2.5</retractionDistance>
<extraRestartDistance>0</extraRestartDistance>
<retractionZLift>0</retractionZLift>
<retractionSpeed>6000</retractionSpeed>
<useCoasting>0</useCoasting>
<coastingDistance>0.5</coastingDistance>
<useWipe>0</useWipe>
<wipeDistance>2</wipeDistance>
</extruder>
</autoConfigureMaterial>

I added only the <defaultSpeed>1200</defaultSpeed>, <useRetract>0</useRetract>, <useCoasting>0</useCoasting>, <useWipe>0</useWipe>
somehow after a while using it it added the rest of the extruder settings, which I dont mind either way if not using it.

The whole point of this thread would be to hopefully just show that it would be nice if the speed and retract settings were maybe managed by a overseeing global command that could be added just like the <globalExtruderTemperature> <globalBedTemperature> <globalExtrusionMultiplier>

Thanks for having a this long read on this :)

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