Hi George,
What's throwing me off is I have a variety of bowden and direct drive machines. I'm a little unclear on if Cura uses the Material Manager's Flow, Retract and Retract distance settings for said machine that is loaded.
I'm also noting there's about 3 entries for the first layer temperature in Cura these days. That's confusing too.
Asides the PreFix method I am using, I was curious if Cura Dev had any ideas how to do it better. I'd like to better understand the current logic with material management and see how it can improve for those of us with a print farm of many different machines.
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I have 5 printers I use regularly and they are all a little different. 3 of them are um2go printers so I can save/set printing temp and flow rate on the printer itself. You can even dump all the material "profiles" for a given printer on to a USB card then edit the file on a desktop computer and reload the materials back into the printer. Then you can, for example, load "PLA-orange" and print away.
Similarly if your generic 3d printer with Marlin always needs a little more flow (say 3%) you can mess with the steps/mm setting on the printer - up that by the same 3%.
For the non um2 printers (e.g. S5) I do it all in Cura. Whenever I slice something I ALWAYS save the project (menu "file" "save project") along with the gcode file. When I need to slice something else (gee this is the same material as that orange PLA thing I printed last week on the S5 - I can use the same settings) I first open the project that is most similar (so it has the needed settings).
But for 95% of prints I don't need to use any kind of custom settings.
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