Thanks for the thoughts on that @gr5 - it's a good idea, and I do similar with a laser cutter. Maybe I'll start to do the same for the 3d printer!
Still hoping to get my head around how the profiles are _supposed_ to work, but if I don't manage that, making a set of 'starter projects' might be the way to go...
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I don't use profiles - I use a different process. What you describe sounds so damn complicated and makes me glad (again) that I don't use profiles. Instead I always save the gcode file and also the *project file* (not profile) in the same folder. The project file stores everything a profile stores and much more. Then when I want to slice something I locate the closest related project file. I load that and all my settings are ready to go. I add in the new STL and slice. So for example if I have been printing Nylon brackets and lots of other PLA items and then one day I have to slice a new type of Nylon bracket or a new version of the old nylon bracket, I load that old project, delete the old bracket and load in the new bracket and I know I have all the same settings from that last successful bracket.
I'm sorry this doesn't answer your question. I hope someone else can answer your question. But maybe you'll try out using projects instead.
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