Extending a material profile to print with a different core than AA 0.4

[NTwoO 12]

Hi, I'm trying to alter the Addigy F2045 profile to also print with the AA 0.8 core. Maybe using a bigger nozzle improves the printing qualities of the soft material. I created a separate material profile and unlinked it. In the profile I set the hardware compatible flag for the AA 0.8 core to yes. Unfortunately the core does not show that it is compatible in Cura.  In the logs Cura shows "we received an unknown container ID (Addigy_F2045_ultimaker_s5_AA_0.8)" I also tried to remove the ® characters from the materials description, but this did not help either. Is there someone that knows how one can experiment with this?

[Slashee_the_Cow 519]

The first thing that comes to mind is: did you make sure the material definition file has a valid (and unique) GUID?

[NTwoO 12]

After unlinking, the profile did have a unique GUID, yes. It seems that if the profile extends another profile Cura generates it with the same GUID.

[Slashee_the_Cow 519]

As I unfortunately lack an UltiMaker printer, I think that about ends my usefulness.

I'll throw @gr5 under the bus for this one.

[NTwoO 12]

I'll find a bus for @gr5

[gr5 2,280]

You can just set the line width to 0.8 and when the printer or DF complains that you have the wrong print core you just click "ignore".  That's what I'd do.

 

Or you can reprogram your AA 0.8 to look like an AA 0.4.  I don't recommend that.

 

Or yeah you can continue what you are doing.  There's another file that says which profiles are compatible with which printers.  Use grep or windows "find" and search for the profile name.  I don't remember if it's the file name or some variable inside the profile such as "name" or something.  This file will probably be in a different folder.

[Slashee_the_Cow 519]

16 minutes ago, gr5 said:

Or yeah you can continue what you are doing.  There's another file that says which profiles are compatible with which printers.  Use grep or windows "find" and search for the profile name.  I don't remember if it's the file name or some variable inside the profile such as "name" or something.  This file will probably be in a different folder.

I know what materials a printer can't use is stored in its definition file. And the print cores are stored as variants but they don't say what materials they support. I should know this one, but it's not coming to mind 🤔

If you want to search, the definition files for everything (printers, extruders, variants, etc.) are in subfolders in (default Windows install location) C:\Program Files\UltiMaker Cura 5.9.0\share\cura\resources\

[NTwoO 12]

I think I found it. in the quality dir there are the necessary settings and there the values need to be added to do the 0.8 core. That is also looked up by cura.

 

[Slashee_the_Cow 519]

7 hours ago, NTwoO said:

I think I found it. in the quality dir there are the necessary settings and there the values need to be added to do the 0.8 core. That is also looked up by cura.

 

Just remember that if you make changes to any files in the Cura install directory, they won't be carried over when you update to a new version. I don't know what would happen if you moved them to the appropriate part of the Cura configuration folder (which you can get to in Cura by going to Help > Show Configuration Folder) when you upgrade to a new version of Cura because that new version would have the original configuration files in its install directory - I don't know if the version in the configuration folder would override the version in the install folder (or vice versa) or whether there'd be a conflict.

[NTwoO 12]

I'll keep it in mind.