Lookat your folder structure on the QC as there are Downloads folders for both captures and presets but only captures will show the + sign everywhere applicable for a capture. In order to use a capture, you need to add it to your signal grid somewhere in the chain.
Today I started it again. Now I get an error saying "Tone file not found". Advice is to "press the Refresh button in the Presets tab to refresh your Tone Library". Otherwise fine and dandy, but for my life I can't find a "Presets tab" anywhere.
All the tones are where they are supposed to be, in Documents\Line 6\Tones\POD Farm 2. They can be loaded individually and work just fine. I believe Pod Farm lost the presets when I moved my Documents folder from C-drive (SSD used only for Windows, applications and recording audio) to D-drive (regular HDD used for data storage).
I had the same issue. I found that my tones were moved due to OneDrive backing up the data. I tried different approaches to solve it and then I finally opened the manual (press F1 when running the stand-alone version of POD Farm 2): on page 50 (chapter 3.12) you can see the Presets View. I think, this is where we need to get.
I never use the stand-alone PF. I recently got a new computer for recording, and installed PF on it, and of course none of my presets from the old computer came over - is there an easy way to do so? I still have access to the old computer's files.
To Help anyone else experience this.
1. Manually open one of the presets by double click on one of the preset files (example by going to: C:\Users\USER\OneDrive\Documents\Line 6\Tones\POD Farm 2\Guitar\High Gain\AC Tweed.l6t)
2. When Pod Farm opens. where the name of the preset is named (at the top), there are 3 icons below. the icon closest to the Line6 logo in the middle is the Preset view.
3. i have a feeling that it was not showing there before, but it do now. open it, and you can right click on Sourse Folders to add folders.
4. i copied 'C:\Users\USER\OneDrive\Documents\Line 6\Tones\POD Farm 2\' to C:\ , and mapped to that folder in the preset view.
Why whenever I create a physical printer I end up with a user preset definition, and if I delete the user preset it also deletes the physical printer. More over, only the physical printer can be configured to use OctoPrint. Can anyone explain to me why this is?
It is working as expected. The Printer Settings user preset defines the attributes of a printer. The Physical Printers preset then adds on specific connection information for an actual printer. If you have only one printer (of a given type, Mk3S, Mini etc), it's a one-to-one relationship so kind of superfluous. If you have more than one printer, the situation changes. You can assign a printer user preset to multiple physical printers. In my case, I have one user preset for "My Mk3S+", which contains custom startup and end gcode, and it is assigned to both my printers, they now share the same custom gcode. You can also assign multiple user presets to any one physical printer, so each of my printers has user presets for the standard 0.4, but also 0.25, 0.6, and 0.8 mm nozzles assigned to it. This purpose of the whole system is to allow you to define custom presets that are applied across many printers with different connection info.
Well, that's how it works, but I'm not saying it's optimal. Certainly for one printer, it feels sort of superfluous even though you could still get some benefit out of it if you had several nozzle profiles. But I consider this an aspect of Prusaslicer that could be significantly improved. For one, the whole drop down menu becomes unwieldy. I have only 4 printers but already have 12 printer user presets and 10 physical printer profiles. It's a lot of scrolling and easy to pick a wrong one. A super simple improvement would be to put the physical profiles on top of the menu, and have the user and system presets below. Or have some sort of "Favorites" menu. Or change the workflow to only show the printer user presets for slicing, and then have a Send to Printer button that shows a list of available physical printers.
Or circumvent it all by not creating physical printers but use Octoprint, Astroprint etc, to determine the physical destination of an uploaded gcode file. Just sometimes it's very convenient to simply send a print job directly from the slicer...
Not quite. You'll end up with 40 entries under Physical Printers, one for each combination of printer name and nozzle size ("P1 * 0.4 nozzle", P1 * 0.8 nozzle", etc). Plus 3 quality levels under Print Settings. Those will change based on the physical printer selected and only show you the profiles for the nozzle size chosen.
At least that's how it works for me. I wish there was a way to simplify it more. I can see ways how they could have simplified it. Under the Printer dropdown only show User Presets, and then have a separate drop-down for "Physical Printer", with entries for each connection. So you'd pick a nozzle size preset from Printer, and an actual printer with IP address from Physical Printer. Or instead of a separate Physical Printer dropdown, you could be prompted to select one from the upload dialog. Probably cleaner because people who haven't set up any physical printers would never see a separate dialog or dropdown menu.
One alternative is to not set up physical printers and save Gcode files, then upload them to PrusaConnect or Octo and send them to the respective printers from there, rather than directly from PrusaSlicer. Keeps Prusaslicer clean but forgoes the direct send to printer.
I don't know, never tried such a combo. I have given up on PS. PS has a great user interface and is great in how it organizes profiles (other than the printer profiles), but it severely lucks when it comes to control and print quality. Even though I hate Cura's user interface as a whole, and how it handles material profiles, it's far superior to PS when it comes to available settings and controlling prints. If PS ever was to incorporate the same control as Cura, and given it's much superiors interface to Cura, I'd switch on the spot. PS also creates more efficient gcode quite often, reducing print times. I only print fictional parts that need to be accurate and strong, and Cura just does a much better job at that. If PS does the job for you, than it is much easier and more logical then Cura and easier to work with.
I think the reason must be that you can then customise them as well... so if printer 2 has a quirk on 0.25 that requires more retraction, I can do that, and if it were the way you and I are thinking, it would change that parameter for ALL printers. So it sort of makes sense, but also leaves one with a confusing list until you get your head around it. Then I will forget in 2 weeks, but will be able to come back to this post ?
I think the reason must be that you can then customise them as well... so if printer 2 has a quirk on 0.25 that requires more retraction, I can do that, and if it were the way you and I are thinking, it would change that parameter for ALL printers. So it sort of makes sense
Oh,you're right, it sort of looks like you can in the settings interface, as they are listed separately, however if you change the settings by selecting a physical, it also changes the user preset...
Id love to hear more about your thoughts on the profile management in prusa. Specifically about the drop downs. It is only a UI issue of displaying too many options or is there anything else your interested in seeing?
I came here with the same question as the original post as I've purchased some different nozzle sizes and it seems odd that I have to have do define a physical printer for each nozzle and also re-populate the connection information.
It seem more natural to me (or object oriented, to use a software development term) to define a single physical printer, including the connection (via API key) and then be able to switch between system presets assigned to it when I change nozzles. So one drop down list picks the printer preset, including connection information, and a second drop down populates to show the valid presets, i.e. nozzle sizes and other setting differences, that can be selected for that physical printer.
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