I wrote the post originally as answer for this thread, but it got way too long and maybe more useful standalone, so I’ll just link it:
I hope this better explains what I am trying to say
Thanks for writing that all out! My brain has stopped braining today so I will have to dive more into that tomorrow. I left a link to a video I made explaining my problem in detail.
I hear ya. And my writeup doesn’t really address the issue you’re seeing, which I agree is kinda ridiculous and counter-intuitive. In fact it has kept me from creating my custom process profiles the way I’d really like them, so I end up spending more time editing stuff for each project. At some point it’s quicker/simpler to just edit the files manually to get the desired setups, but that’s about as far from user-friendly as it gets. And in many cases Studio needs to be restarted to pick up manual profile file edits, which is a pain (I’ll be submitting a patch for “reload profiles” feature if it doesn’t end up breaking anything else in the code).
From what I can tell so far, the basic underlying issue is that a printer definition is tied to a nozzle size. I have no idea why it was structured this way originally or why that would be desirable. But besides making things awkward with the profiles, it’s also looking like a major impediment to mixing nozzle sizes in a print, down the road. I hope someone is working on de-coupling these things, but the internal BL Studio development is completely opaque (until it hits GitHub with a big sync), so who knows.
-Max