[ADDED] Multiple Materials Pull-down

[adamcooks]

I think it would be useful to have more presets for materials then just 4. Most people can't print nylon, and most people probably shouldn't print with pva. A drop down style selector would be nice with the ability to create you own presets. There are many new materials available now, t-glase PET+ PETG XT, 618 and the likes

[KeyboardWarrior]

I think it would be useful to have more presets for materials then just 4. Most people can't print nylon, and most people probably shouldn't print with pva. A drop down style selector would be nice with the ability to create you own presets. There are many new materials available now, t-glase PET+ PETG XT, 618 and the likes

If you Export your FFF profile and open it with a text-editor you can make your own custom configurable presets in a text-editor. I've done this with Ninjaflex for one of my printers and I like it very much. The FFF profiles are in XML, which is not very hard to configure, I highly recommend it.

[dennisjm]

Yeah you can add as many as you want. It would be nice to put them in a pull down perhaps instead. After 6 or 7 the dialog starts to become less usable.

[adamcooks]

Thanks for the xml tip. Another branch of this 3d printing rabbit hole to wander down in my spare time.

[adamcooks]

Wow that was easy. I will list the few steps 1 took for this.

1) Edit process settings -> export . I saved a testprofile name

2) open saved file with notpad

3) scroll down untill you see the <auto configure materials>

4) since i will never print with PVA ( it is glue after all) i just changed the name to PET, and adjusted the temps and extrusion multiplier

5) I wanted to add a 5th material, I highlighted a complete section of material and copied, changed name, temps, and multiplier.

6) restarted s3d, and profited

[laird]

This is great!

It'd be nice to have this exposed in the GUI to make the process more obvious and less fragile, of course.

[S3D-Jason]

As of version 3.0, this can now easily be done through the GUI. Just click the "+" button beside the material drop down list and enter the name of your new material.