How can I remove material profiles.

[kiwitahi 0]

I have previously imported material profiles and created my own when experimenting with settings, etc. I want to clean up my material profiles and delete unwanted ones but can't remove them. Is there a way to permanently remove these profiles? 

[Slashee_the_Cow 410]

1. Go to Preferences > Configure Cura...
   
2. Go to the Materials section on the left:
   
3. Find the material you want in the tree view and click on it to open it:
   
4. Open the hamburger menu (yes that is the technical term for the three horizontal lines icon) at the top right and click Remove
   

[kiwitahi 0]

Nothing in the materials list. I can remove the profile in screenshot 2 but they wont save as removed and keep coming back.

[Slashee_the_Cow 410]

2 hours ago, kiwitahi said:

Nothing in the materials list. I can remove the profile in screenshot 2 but they wont save as removed and keep coming back.

Are they coming back every time you restart Cura? If you load an older project file it will import the quality profile used in that project so they could slowly accumulate that way.

 

Anyways, in Cura, go to Help > Show Configuration Folder and when that (hopefully) pops up, close Cura. Go into the quality_changes folder and the quality profiles will be in there, with files for each profile for both the extruder and the printer (so to delete any individual profile you'd have to delete both files) - the profile names are at the end of the filenames so it should be easy to find the ones you want. Or if you'd rather start from scratch, just delete every file in the folder.

 

Once you've selectively pruned/nuked the files in that folder, restart Cura and those profiles will be gone.

But as I said, bear in mind that opening a project file will import the quality profile used in that file, so you'd have to manually delete it (hopefully just in Cura though). One of several reasons I keep two different Cura configuration folders, one for when I'm helping people on the forums and one for when I'm doing stuff for myself that doesn't get messed up with a bunch of other printers and such.

[kiwitahi 0]

Yes that worked thank you