Is it possible to edit/create .curaprofiles in a text editor?

[carvedblock 3]

I'm on Mac. I have tried Atom, Sublime Text, TextEdit... 

 

If I make any change to an exported curaprofile, then the re-import fails. 

I get "Errno 22, invalid argument"

Is there any special encoding or line ending or something that gets messed up? 

Thanks for any pointers!

[nallath 1,124]

Curaprofiles are zipped containers containing  one or multiple .inst.cfg files.

[carvedblock 3]

Thanks. Very useful @nallath. 

I can confirm that I can now modify the profiles!

Howto modify a .curaprofile

 

• Open the .curaprofile as a zip archive
• modify the files
• re-compress the files
• ONE WAY: a bit convoluted way to do this with no 3rd party software
  • rename the profile to `profile.zip` instead of `profile.curaprofile`
  • extract the files
  • edit them
  • re-compress into a new .zip archive
  • rename to .curaprofile again. 
  • done
• ANOTHER WAY: simpler, but you need to install the open source and cross platform B1 Free Archiver
  • Open the .curaprofile archive with B1 (no renaming necessary)
  • Double click on the file you wanna edit
  • it will open in your default text editor
  • make you changes and save
  • the program will ask you if you want to save the changes
  • done. (B1 will re-compress the archive in the background)
     

 

[carvedblock 3]

Finally, I published a short blog post on this. With a few screenshots and a rationale behind why one may want to do this. A bit more accessible to people who are not used to thinking this way. End of this story. Tadaaa. 
 

[Grumly50 0]

Thanks a lot for this tips !! Is there is any document to list all parameters ??

[ahoeben 1,986]

You can use this list, if you remove the {} around the setting names, and ignore the "Application-defined patterns":

http://files.fieldofview.com/cura/Replacement_Patterns.html

 

This page is actually generated from this file (which is part of Cura):

https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/blob/master/resources/definitions/fdmprinter.def.json

[Grumly50 0]

Thanks !