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fieldOfView / Cura-LinearAdvanceSettingPlugin

A Cura plugin that adds a Linear Advance Factor setting for use in start gcode snippets
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Make a filament-specific field in the material manager to adjust this setting #24

Closed Kurolox closed 4 years ago

Kurolox commented 4 years ago

While I find this extension really useful since I don't need to tool with the firmware to change the linear advance, I think that it would be a great idea to add a field in the filament manager to store each filament specific K-value for the linear advance, and use that one automatically unless a different K-value is defined in the slicer.

Just to be sure I'm explaining myself, this is the menu I'm talking about.

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I believe both Cura and this plugin would benefit a lot from this feature, since the K-value can differ between spools of the same material and even the same brand, but the value remains mostly consistent in the same spool.

I may look to add this myself, but I'm not familiar with Cura plugins so I'd love to know the feasibility of making this a feature.

fieldOfView commented 4 years ago

It looks like you are already using the Material Settings plugin. With Extensions -> Material Settings -> Configure Material Settings, you can select which settings are shown in the Print settings tab of the material preferences.

Kurolox commented 4 years ago

Oh, I didn't know that this was a thing. Thanks and sorry for bothering you!