Tip of the Day Compilation: FFF Settings Window

[Grzyby15]

Nice forum, greets to everybody:)

[oacilamaf]

Great work

[bionicrocky]

This is so RAD! Printing up to sit next to the printer!

[jakejakezack]

The Links do not seem to work??

[bananaman]

Great tips, really helped me get an understanding, BUT now I get an forum error trying to access them. Just me? Really should have printed them out.

[bananaman]

It is working again!, printer is warming up.

[AIBLTD]

Thanks so much!

[Balu]

With all these settings we have, does anyone have a list of what setting depends on what "profile type"?

Like what is changed when switching the printer profile, the filament profile or quality setting?

[wfcook]

With all these settings we have, does anyone have a list of what setting depends on what "profile type"?

Like what is changed when switching the printer profile, the filament profile or quality setting?

This would be very handy.

[KC_703]

One of the S3D videos list the parameter which the "Material" and Quality" profiles store. Here's their video.

I use the "Material" profile to store paramters in the: Extruder, Temperature and Cooling tabs.
Sample from a dual extruder Material autoconfigure profile:

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  <autoConfigureMaterial name="ABS-LH3-Black">
    <extruder name="Back Extruder">
      <toolheadNumber>0</toolheadNumber>
      <diameter>0.5</diameter>
      <autoWidth>1</autoWidth>
      <width>0.6</width>
      <extrusionMultiplier>0.94</extrusionMultiplier>
      <useRetract>1</useRetract>
      <retractionDistance>0.9</retractionDistance>
      <extraRestartDistance>0</extraRestartDistance>
      <retractionZLift>0</retractionZLift>
      <retractionSpeed>1800</retractionSpeed>
      <useCoasting>1</useCoasting>
      <coastingDistance>0.2</coastingDistance>
      <useWipe>0</useWipe>
      <wipeDistance>5</wipeDistance>
    </extruder>
    <extruder name="Front Extruder">
      <toolheadNumber>1</toolheadNumber>
      <diameter>0.5</diameter>
      <autoWidth>1</autoWidth>
      <width>0.6</width>
      <extrusionMultiplier>0.94</extrusionMultiplier>
      <useRetract>1</useRetract>
      <retractionDistance>0.9</retractionDistance>
      <extraRestartDistance>0</extraRestartDistance>
      <retractionZLift>0</retractionZLift>
      <retractionSpeed>1800</retractionSpeed>
      <useCoasting>1</useCoasting>
      <coastingDistance>0.2</coastingDistance>
      <useWipe>0</useWipe>
      <wipeDistance>5</wipeDistance>
    </extruder>
    <temperatureController name="Back Extruder Temperature">
      <temperatureNumber>0</temperatureNumber>
      <isHeatedBed>0</isHeatedBed>
      <relayBetweenLayers>0</relayBetweenLayers>
      <relayBetweenLoops>0</relayBetweenLoops>
      <stabilizeAtStartup>1</stabilizeAtStartup>
      <setpoint layer="1" temperature="245"/>
      <setpoint layer="10" temperature="243"/>
      <setpoint layer="33" temperature="243"/>
    </temperatureController>
    <temperatureController name="Front Extruder Temperature">
      <temperatureNumber>1</temperatureNumber>
      <isHeatedBed>0</isHeatedBed>
      <relayBetweenLayers>0</relayBetweenLayers>
      <relayBetweenLoops>0</relayBetweenLoops>
      <stabilizeAtStartup>1</stabilizeAtStartup>
      <setpoint layer="1" temperature="245"/>
      <setpoint layer="10" temperature="243"/>
      <setpoint layer="33" temperature="243"/>
    </temperatureController>
    <temperatureController name="Heated Bed">
      <temperatureNumber>2</temperatureNumber>
      <isHeatedBed>1</isHeatedBed>
      <relayBetweenLayers>0</relayBetweenLayers>
      <relayBetweenLoops>0</relayBetweenLoops>
      <stabilizeAtStartup>0</stabilizeAtStartup>
      <setpoint layer="1" temperature="110"/>
      <setpoint layer="2" temperature="110"/>
      <setpoint layer="10" temperature="100"/>
      <setpoint layer="60" temperature="90"/>
    </temperatureController>
    <fanSpeed>
      <setpoint layer="1" speed="0"/>
      <setpoint layer="2" speed="60"/>
      <setpoint layer="4" speed="0"/>
      <setpoint layer="10" speed="50"/>
    </fanSpeed>
  </autoConfigureMaterial>

"Quality" stores the parameters for other tabs. I use these profiles to store Layer and Speed (OTHERS tab) parameters, but I've added Z-offset (GCODE tab) and filament diameter as a test.

Sample:

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  <autoConfigureQuality name="LH3_5400">
    <globalExtrusionMultiplier>0.94</globalExtrusionMultiplier>
    <layerHeight>0.3</layerHeight>
    <topSolidLayers>4</topSolidLayers>
    <bottomSolidLayers>4</bottomSolidLayers>
    <skirtLayers>1</skirtLayers>
    <skirtOutlines>3</skirtOutlines>
    <infillPercentage>100</infillPercentage>
    <supportInfillPercentage>20</supportInfillPercentage>
    <defaultSpeed>5400</defaultSpeed>
    <outlineUnderspeed>0.4</outlineUnderspeed>
    <solidInfillUnderspeed>0.8</solidInfillUnderspeed>
    <supportUnderspeed>1.1</supportUnderspeed>
    <rapidXYspeed>6000</rapidXYspeed>
    <gcodeZoffset>.1</gcodeZoffset>
    <filamentDiameter>3</filamentDiameter>
  </autoConfigureQuality>

Note the Multiplier (from the Extruder tab governed by Material) can be modified by adding the "global". Its probably just scratching the surface,

Attached an old FFF for a single extruder which has multiple "Material" and "Quality" autoconfigure profiles. FFFs are best viewed and manipulated in an XML editor like Notepad++ (Windows) or TextWrangler (Mac).

Hope this helps.