Peter_Oxford

Hi gr5 I don't agree with this when you say: "I don’t usually mess with temperature and that’s pretty much the only setting that changes for materials." For TPU materials such as Ninjaflex there are a number of settings that will commonly need to be changed, such as speed, flow rate, number of shells, infill percentage, fine tuning of retraction settings. Also for PVA materials, the different brands of PVA material often require settings to be adjusted. Also these settings can vary on different printers and therefore fine-tuning is often required. In my experience using Simplify3D it is straightforward to create a set of custom materials that can easily be saved and used when required. I just can't understand what that appears to be not an option in Cura. Peter

Hi gr5 I think you replied to the wrong thread

Thanks gr5 The fact that it took more than 5 paragraphs for you to explain that is an indication of how overly-complex it is !!! I can see that the "project" approach is ok as a workaround However it makes no sense that you would want to "keep" changes if you were changing to a different material What is needed is an easy method of saving modified materials for future use That is easy to do in Simplify3D but not, it seems, in Cura I use dual extrusion all the time and all that is needed is a set of materials profiles that can be applied to either nozzle (or both) Peter

Further to my post above I think the options should be: "save changes to current material" "discard changes to current material" "save changes as new material" Thanks Peter

I use both Simplify 3D and Cura I have been using Cura for about 5 years, perhaps more, and I am still very confused by the way the profiles (or materials) works in Cura It is not clear at all how to create or adapt materials settings, and then when it asks whether you want to keep or discard changes to the print settings, again it is also not clear what it is asking - it is confusing I have been desperate for a tutorial video on how to do this There is a video from a few years ago but this still does not cover it properly Many times I have fine-tuned the settings for a particular printer, then lost these settings because I did the wrong thing at the question save or discard changes Nowadays I keep a spreadsheet with all my preferred materials settings so if I lose them in Cura, I can reinsert them manually, but this is very time consuming With Simplify3D it is much easier to create and edit materials for your printer I think a lot of users probably use very standard materials and so don't need to do a lot of fine tuning - I use materials such as ninjaflex that are difficult to get right so I have to do a lot of fine tuning which is difficult in Cura but easy in Simplify 3D I am a professional user but I still have problems - so I suggest something is wrong Peter