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    Ultimaker Cura 4.4 released with new Intent profiles

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    2 hours ago, gr5 said:

    So I never dread updates because I don't save my own profiles.  Instead I save "projects".  Do "file" "save" in the menu.  I do this everytime I slice. 

     

    So let's say I slice my special flashlight in CPE and now I'm printing a different design flashlight.  In CPE.  I think, "hey - I did a similar print - version 1 of this flashlight" and I go find the project and load that.  Now I have exactly how everything was setup.

     

    I find this works very well since cura 2.0.  Most of my 3d printing friends all complained about profiles and the ones who stopped creating profiles and use the "project" method instead are all happy.  It sounds like  a stupid way to do things but when you try it you will realize several reasons why it's a better method of saving your settings (in other words I could go on and on explaining the other benefits but I won't).

     

     

    You're right, and I'm definitely going to do this more often now on my personal stuff. I have projects saved on previous critical items, but it's nice to have a few stable generic profiles that print well for people who aren't yet at the Jedi level. Especially in a student setting with multiple printers types across a bot farm.

    Ultimaker Cura 4.4 released with new Intent profiles

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    Posted · Edited by ratchet
    Adding info. Reduced harshness.

    I upgraded from the previous version just now and lost a material and a profile with no warning. Technically the profile just has totally different settings, so maybe lost is not the correct word for it, but the material profile is definitely gone.

     

    It's getting to the point that when there is an update, I dread installing it because I have to spend time "fixing" everything that Cura lost or no longer considers valid. I keep a computer running 3.6 just because I have a ton of dialed in settings and custom printers printing beautifully that I don't want messed with.

     

    It looks like when 4.4 installed it took away the 4.2 data in roaming and seems to be pulling info from an old 3.6 folder (3.6 is no longer installed on this computer). Does the installer no longer archive old versions' custom settings?

    Ultimaker Cura 3.4 | Stable is available for download!

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    Is there a way to get back your configurations after the error assistant deletes all your custom printers and settings?

     

    The configuration error assistant said two of my configurations were bad and wanted to reset them. It did not specify anything other than the name of the printer config, and since it was two that I didn't use much I told it to reset them, but (and a warning would be nice) it totally reset Cura as if it were a brand new install and removed all printer configs and profiles.

     

    Not cool.

     

    ratchet

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