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Which filament manufacturers provide config files? (feddit.org)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/3dprinting

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eSun and (obviously) Bambu provide filament configurations and process configs for their filaments in Orca Slicer (or Bambu Studio,but that won't be used here anymore).

This is quite useful as a starting point for filaments you never used before, you don't have to transfer the manufacturers recommendations (who often are quite generic. 170-250°? Really?) and is quite helpful for new users (which I sometimes have to help).

The question is: Are there any other manufacturers who do that? There are of course a few stock one delivered with Orca,but is there anyone else?

Edit:

So far we have the following:

Thank you @dwsharp

Polymaker

VoxelPLA

Thank you @alleycard

Extrudr

Thank you @Bronzie

Add:North

Others:

eSun

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The slicer assumes those settings built in. And will take care of those finer details well enough for those "older non-technical" people. Each slicer assumes density and flow rates for each filament type that will work good enough for the vast majority of people. Just make sure your new people understand the importance of selecting the correct filament type and to choose a temperature for the nozzle and heatbed somewhere in middle of that sticker on the spool. At that point, 95%+ of all problems will be solved for them.

As I said, each printer is a rule unto itself. So your desire for settings for every brand and type of filament won't make anymore difference than is already built into a slicer. And settings like flow and density can and do change from batch to batch and even spool to spool. And it can quickly become a game of whack-a-mole, (I got a tee shirt somewhere around here). And if you are printing expensive engineering filaments, I would really recommend you go to the manufacturer's website and look up their recommendations for those materials. This is why I buy MatterHacker when I need those types of filaments. They have data sheets for each filament they produce. While I'm not much concerned about common PLA and PETG, I don't trust any filament retailer that does not have those data sheets for expensive engineering filaments. Nor should anyone else.