Ghostkeeper
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2 years ago The Generic PLA profile should have specialised settings specific to your printer. If your printer has a direct drive, you'd expect the default retraction distance to be a bit shorter. But maybe it's a custom printer for which there are no profiles yet.
I think what you're asking is to make the normal list of settings visible in the material manager, to see what your current profile has as a setting value. This is a huge list of settings though, and many of them are quite material-dependent. I don't think showing all of them is a good idea for this obstacle alone. What's more, the setting value there depends on the selected profile, which in turn depends on the material, making it quite hard to make sense of that relationship.
Is your feature request related to a problem?
I have 21 3D printers on the print farm. Frequently I will go into Material Manager and Create Duplicate of PLA However, that default value is for a Bowden system and there is no way to review your current printer's settings within Material Manager. Many times I have forgotten about this default being there and a print is ruined, using the wrong settings.
Describe the solution you'd like
In the Print Settings, can the currently selected machines values be set?
Can there be some sort of intelligent way to pull this setting?
Describe alternatives you've considered
It would be very helpful if the Material Manager could be a little smarter, perhaps even a pull down menu to select from 3D Printers installed into Cura?
Affected users and/or printers
Many of my machines are direct drive and vary between 0.5 to 1.0 mm of retraction distance. Most have a variety of speeds.
The default being a Bowden setup is a real obstacle (unless, before entering the menu, you know the settings by memory)
Additional information & file uploads
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