better profile support

[andyp]

Great software!

But (unless I am missing something) it would be good to have better profile support.

If I change speed for one material it changes the speed for all materials - this is a bit strange?

It would be good to be able to set every parameter for each profile/quality setting, rather than have global profiles for most things.....

Andrew

[JoeJ]

S3D lets you change any settings you want for the material option. You get to choose which ones. For example, I think that different materials need different support settings, but my buddy likes to use the same support options for all materials. Thankfully the developers already wrote the software so that you can choose what you want to change.

So if you want to use a different print speed for each material, that's really easy to do. Follow the steps below.

• Go to File > Export FFF Profile, and select the profile that you want to edit. This will save it to a .fff file on your hard drive.
• Open the .fff file in a text editor. It's standard XML. We are interested in the "autoConfigureMaterial" sections, so you can Ctrl-F to find those (they are usually at the bottom).
• To change a new option when you select your material, you just need to add that option inside of each autoConfigureMaterial section. So in this case, add the following tag inside each autoConfigureMaterial section: <defaultSpeed>3600</defaultSpeed> (note: the value must be in mm/min, NOT mm/sec!)
• That's it! Save your changes, then go to File > Import FFF Profile to load it back into the software. Now when you change your material, it will also change the default printing speed.

[andyp]

Thanks very much... understand.....

So all we need is a GUI

Is there any way of adding support to (tall) thin vertical faces?