No directories for profiles/materials

[Dom K]

Hi there,

new user here, I wanted to try out IceSL (love the possibility to set up individual layers/areas), but I'm already failing at the start.

After installing, iceSL starts up as one would expect, I can select printers, change settings etc.

I need to define my one printer since it's a selfmade one, so I copied the folder of prusai3, renamed it and edited the files.

In the following, I'll describe some "anomalities" I found from then on:

Consistency wiki/application (file locations)

The folders are not in the install directory, a folder "gcode" doesn't exist at all. Changelog for 2.1.7 tells me this is intentional, but the wiki should be changed accordingly to keep consistency: https://gforge.inria.fr/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/icesl/index.php/Main_Page#Adding_a_new_printer

None of the folders mentioned in the documentation (gcode, profiles, ...) exists at all. See the following screenshot from my %appdata%-directory.

Install-directory has nothing at all, only bin and tooltips.

Profiles not working / "Printer has no profiles/materials directory"

After adding a new printer I can select it in IceSL, but using profiles is not possible anymore from then on and it seems to break the filehandling to some degree:

- The dropdown list consists of only one entry ("Custom"), saving under a specific name, reloading it etc. doesn't change anything.

- Restarting IceSL after selcting a custom printer reveals the following log:

IceSL doesn't seem to find any profiles/materials, see the lines in red (but also doesn't tell me where those folders should be).

This keeps happening if I change back to e.g. prusai3 in iceSL. The (previously selectable!) profiles are gone, replaced by the unchangeable "Custom".

Loading a previously saved profile gives me the correct values for printing speed etc., but the dropdown-list is useless, and the displayed name is "Custom" - no matter which name I gave my profile/name.

From what I've read until now this may be a result of changing from ...\gcode\[printername]\profiles\[profilename].lua to .xml files?

iceSL seems to look for paths which aren't there anymore?

Did I do anything wrong or is this a bug?

 

FYI: I commented and combined the screenshots in an album:

https://imgur.com/a/CFwd8

[Maze Mietner]

Hi

for Windows: the printers are now defined in %appdata%\IceSL\icesl-printers\fff\. Only Qidi and Ultimaker2 have materials and profiles defined, so I wonder if you've really ever been able to select and materials or profiles at the prusai3: Look at your directory view, the subfolder "fff" contains all printers. But only Qidi and Ultimaker2 have a "+" indicating subfolders, for materials and profiles). If you have printer/material/profile definitions at another location it must be copied to the new path to make it work.

Maze

[Dom K]

Hi,

perfect, thanks for this quick response!

I found those folders and now it works as it should. Didn't realize there are only two printers where profiles/materials exist to use as a template.