Improved Support for Multiple Printers

[HarryM]

Hi!
I love to work with S3D. But I'm missing a function for users with 2 or more printers:
A image a drop down list in the menu that toggles between my installed printers. And each printer should have a own list of material profiles. So the program would became a litte bit more fool save and easier to handle.

Status now:
The default printing profiles get more and more when choosing the other printer via "Help" --> "Configuration assistent ". Fighting thru the settings sucks.

An approach is using different .factory-FIles. But the profile list stays long and offer me settings for all my printers.
And I think that's a bug, that the STL-File for the printer model (Tool->Options->Machine->Printer Models) isn't handled by the the .factor-File.
When I'am switching to UM2+ (with my own STL-Bed) the bed of the TAZ doesn't disappear.


Best wishes from Germany
Harald

Operating System:
Windows 10/64

Printers:
Ultimaker UM2+, Lulzbot TAZ 6

[brian442]

You should only need to go to help -> configuration assistant ONE time for each printer. You only need to do that the very first time you need to download the profile. If you are doing that every time you need to switch printers, that would explain why you have so many profiles.

If you have 2 machines, then you only need to use the configuration assistant twice, and you would only have 2 profiles in the list. You can already embed material settings in each profile and then easily switch between them. So it pretty much already works the way you described.

If it helps, they have some videos that explain some of these things more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ7HFPY1wog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFynhtvPBPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYPUAqT4UyI