Simplify3D User Forum

I often use a printers profile as a start and then make changes to it over time. Today S3D informed me that the profile had an update, great. I saved it as a new profile and then went about looking for differences. This would have been a lot easier if there had been release notes or a changelog that I could have skimmed through. This would ensure users did not miss anything out when updating.

Is this information currently available? If so, where?

The .FFF files are in XML format, which is just plain human-readable text. Open both files in notepad and use either a program or website to do a text compare and you can see what specifically is changed between the two files.

I use winmerge (http://winmerge.org/?lang=en) heavily to figure out what is different between the various iterations of my profiles. You can even use it against .gcode files (for just the header) since S3D dumps a summary of the profile as comments at the start of the file.