Collaborative Community Printing Profiles
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:23 pm
It would be awesome if we could share the benefits of our knowledge and experimentation with everyone. If we could instantly access and download or upload profiles to a shared online library directly into the FFF Process dialogs .
The search parameters would be based on machine, various options (like extruder head types), dual extruders, filament material and manufacturer, and desired printing quality.
For example, on my TAZ 5 printer, with the stock toolhead it took me some experimentation to determine the optimal print settings for Brand X ABS. However, when I purchased "Brand Z" ABS I had to go through the whole process again to find the optimal printing temp (25 degrees different!), bed temp, speed, layer heights. Once I have found that it would be great if I could submit that to 'the cloud' with some notes that could be used/improved/shared by the Simplify3d user community.
A vote up / down and comment feature would be nice to help separate the better profiles from the weaker profiles.
An even better feature would to automagically prompt people at the completion of a print about the quality of the final job (1-5 stars) and submit that along with their profile settings and printer info to a database that could be data-mined and shared.
Sometimes I just want to print something quickly and don't have the time to experiment - this would help give me a baseline to work from.
The search parameters would be based on machine, various options (like extruder head types), dual extruders, filament material and manufacturer, and desired printing quality.
For example, on my TAZ 5 printer, with the stock toolhead it took me some experimentation to determine the optimal print settings for Brand X ABS. However, when I purchased "Brand Z" ABS I had to go through the whole process again to find the optimal printing temp (25 degrees different!), bed temp, speed, layer heights. Once I have found that it would be great if I could submit that to 'the cloud' with some notes that could be used/improved/shared by the Simplify3d user community.
A vote up / down and comment feature would be nice to help separate the better profiles from the weaker profiles.
An even better feature would to automagically prompt people at the completion of a print about the quality of the final job (1-5 stars) and submit that along with their profile settings and printer info to a database that could be data-mined and shared.
Sometimes I just want to print something quickly and don't have the time to experiment - this would help give me a baseline to work from.