Pizzastreichler

Thank you for the replys. In fact the CSV-Export/Import-Tool is quite ok to exchange the altered settings - I hope this is what I'm supposed to see in the exports, but the amount of information you get with the ProfileAnalyzer is hugh compared to that. I meanwhile managed to ... 1.) chose the right visible settings I want to see in the sidebar 2.) select the settings I want to see and being controled from the material settings menu (using the plugin from FieldofView), like temperatures, flow rate, initial print speeds and retractions values as a starting point for each new print 3.) selecting a standard profile and modifying everything to my needs - except everything I want to have controlled by the material settings 4.) saving/exporting the visibility settings, materials and custom quality profile for backup reasons. So far it seems to work and everything changes as I'd like to have it when switching the materials. All changes made to the profile in the sidebar are being done on the fly for each job and can be reset for the next one.

Suggestion 1: Besides above named things, you might want to cut and slice the body lateraly, so the angles are steeper and you might not need so much supports. Probably printing the front and rear as a short segment would make things even easier and some well attached supports could be left in place. Suggestion 2: Did you also concider the rigidity of the material and the final print? I would have some doubts about using this on a RC car. I'd rather print a quite solid positive model and vacuum form the body with a more stressable material. that way it's also not such a big deal when you flip the thing over 😉

Yes, I was thinking about exporting the files from my user fodler manually to Excel to get an overview of the mess I have greated. As many others I struggle with the philosophy on how Cura manages profiles and priorizes setting values. The files in my user folder are usually quite empty, althoug I have many settings visible and altered in the sidebar and also saved to a custom profile as well. No matter how I reset these values or what standard profile I select, the materal settings mostly will not be taken over when changing to a different material. This is even more a pitty, as there also is a new plug in to manage the visible settings in the material configuration, which really would help to quickly change a job e.g. from PLA to TPU without cross-checking every value with some paper notes. I was thinking of a spread sheet with different columns for default values, profile values and different material values, so it would become obvious at what level of the hierarchy a value could be found and taken over by Cura. the big question is, where to find all the files containing all the altered values and how to import everything back to Cura?!

Hello, I also was missing the former threashold setting since I recntly updated to 4.8.0 Nevertheless maybe a similar setting explains the new tropology size setting ... or at least the image helps -> look for slicing tolerance According to the hint in Cura, Adaptive Layers Topology Size is checking how much horizontal distance is between the outline of two successive layers (overlap or overhang). If the overhang/overlap exceedes the set value, Cura switches the layer height by the size specified under Adaptive Layer Variation Sep Size. This is also good to keep in mind when it comes to overhang printing. If you e.g. have a 0.4 mm nozzle, you certainly will get problems when the angle of the overhang is so big that the next layer would have to print with a horizontal distance of 0.4 mm or bigger - so in mid-air. Reducing the layer height would add an additional layer with half the horizontal distance inbetween and hence providing more support to the following layer. Adaprive layers do that automatically layer by layer. The Adaptive Layers Topology Size setting is quite smart chosen, from my point of view, because you get a direct relation to your nozzle size, respectively your set line width and get an impression about the horizontal overlap from layer to layer.