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

Others:

eSun

  • radau@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    May not directly help you but might work for someone! Going to try to remember this from memory it’s been a couple months since I’ve had to do it. Both of my printers are custom so this is what I do each time I have a new filament/type. It sounds like a lot but it’s maybe an hour of mostly wait time and I don’t do it again for the same type of spool unless I have an issue.

    This is all based on running Klipper firmware and PrusaSlicer/SuperSlicer and their built in tools for calibrating so YMMV:

    1. Create a new Filament (and new Print Settings dependent on the type of plastic, if necessary) in PrusaSlicer. For example maybe I am creating a new Print Setting for “ABS” if it’s my first time printing that type of plastic by cloning PLA, then add a new filament for the coloration. For example I might name it “Polylite ASA - Black” that way I can differentiate from the type of plastic, the manufacturer, AND the color. I typically will base the Type of an existing (e.x. PLA) and then tweak as needed (usually adjusting speed values).

    2. Temperature tower, look for both quality AND strength, you can make a plastic visually print great and have almost zero adhesion.

    3. Adjust values on Ellis3DP’s Pressure advanced tool to match the desired printers parameters and then upload and run the test. I like this one a LOT more than Klippers

    4. Set the pressure advance value for the new filament in PrusaSlicer.

    Visually on the side of PrusaSlicer in advanced mode you would see:

    • Print Settings: printer1 ASA (prefixing or suffixing is necessary if you have multiple printers)

    • Filament: Polylite ASA - Black - printer1 (also necessary for multiple printers as you may have different settings between different printers)

    • Printer: printer1

    Generally speaking I only really need to get the temperature and pressure advance right and it’s dead reliable and I can print at speed. I have tuned PLA, PETG, TPU, ASA, Nylon, CF Nylon and Polycarbonate following these steps and it’s pretty set and forget.