Hey everyone, I am still learning the software and settings. When I DL a project from Maker world, sometimes i will get you message asking me if want to keep or discard settings. I get confused on which way to go. If I want to keep the settings and presets that I have created, do I discard or transfer? Also, if I just click on open in Bambu Studio, it has all the presets from the designer correct? But If I wanted to use my presets, would I discard or transfer. I have noticed sometimes no matter what I click, some of the designers settings stick. Like one project it would keep the tree supports and I was trying to use regular. I have notice that with speeds too. I have mine slowed down quite a bit and print in silent mode almost all of the time, but some projects are still printing really fast. Should I just do the Raw model files, if I want to use my own settings? I know this is a lot, I am having a little issue understanding on presets and trying to learn how to slice effectively. I have an A1 combo.
In my experience, I would press discard settings. This lets you use your own settings, and not need to worry about weird filament/model settings that the designer used. If you donât want to worry about this and do not want the popup, you can download the raw model files then drag them into Bambu studio. Also dragging it into Bambu studio just uses the designerâs settings.
The new settings (on the right side) will be imported once you press save. Otherwise you will keep the old settings .
- if you press save a new window shows up where you can give the new settings a new name.
Thank you for the advise!
Thank you for explaining and the visuals!
Its hardly a Noob question, trust me a lot of people including me are left scratching their head at this choice. It really needs to be worded better.
I agree, I feel like it is trying to confuse me. lol
Please read "Creating a new project, unsaved changes popup" - changes for clarity. ¡ Issue #3236 ¡ bambulab/BambuStudio ¡ GitHub carefully and comment if you have improvements suggestions
I am so confused by this question every single time.
Can someone explain how this works?
There must be a more simple way to word this.
I assume that if I load up a users file into Bambu studio it also brings along with it that users settings like their printer, their filament and their temp settings.
But the question makes no sense and the answers donât make sense either.
If i open the file in Bambo studio and I have a different filament and printer that the files settings what should be the sequence when the transfer, discard or save option pops up.
Theyâve updated the terminology in the Beta but honestly it still has me second guessing. It literally is toss a coin and then go back because it was wrong sort of thing, they should just keep the current model settings without the popup and if you want to change to a different preset you do it after. My god it canât be that hardâŚ
So you are working on a project and youâve changed some of the settings in a preset.
Now you are going to do something else that loads a different preset or re-loads the current preset.
Studio is just asking what to do with those changes?
- Save a modified version of the original preset (with a different name if it was a system preset), before loading the new preset. Use this if you expect to need this combination of settings in the future.
- Discard the changes.
- Load the new preset, but keep (Transfer) the modifications.
Suppose Iâve enabled manual tree supports and gyroid infill for my model and then decide I want thinner layers. If I change from a .20mm Standard preset to a .08 High quality preset, it may also undo my changes.
- I donât want to create a new preset, or modify my User preset, so Iâll skip Save.
- I do want to keep the support and infill settings for this model, so I donât want to Discard them.
- Transfer (Use) will load the .08 profile, but make sure that whatever settings the .08 preset includes, I will keep my tree supports and gyroid infill.
It really isnât that hardâŚ
Simple as⌠I get this in theory, but honestly it is way too wordy and the amount of times I make the wrong choice even after reading makes me think there is a problem somewhere (yeah its me, but I see this come up a lot still). Its like a phone book, lots of words but not much of a story.
I open a 3mf, I have made the decision to do something new. The new model should have the correct settings intact as thats one of the concepts of the format. But no, now I have to read down a list of settings that have or will be changed. It doesnât even let me tick a box to remember my default choice.
If after opening the 3mf in original form that the layer height and infill isnât to my liking, I either change that particular setting or go for one of my presets.
In my opinion choice is a wonderful thing, but in this case it is confusing, annoying, and frustrating. Not user friendly 
The question offers different choices, depending on the circumstances.
When you load a .3mf with a project already on the plate, the query appears before the new .3mf is loaded and it is not asking about the new settings. Itâs about preserving changes made to the current preset. The settings shown are NOT from the new .3mf file and will not be loaded with the new project. They are the values in the current preset and the changes you made while working on the old project. And you only get two choices, save to a preset or discard.
Whichever choice you make, the new .3mf settings are going to be loaded.
Wow! The fact that there are so many ways people are trying to explain this might just indicate that something is wrong with it
I found this thread for this very reason. I am casual (newbie) at the, moment, so not deep into the settings and effects of them all on the print.
So the reason I could not understand it is as follows (or at least in my head):
I see a model on MW, I select the print profile, I choose the model variant I want to print from the versions listed, I choose open in BS, I then find the printer pre-set is an A1M and not the P1S as I selected previously, so I change it to my printer model in BS. BTW I did check that it wasnât a mistake that I might have made on the print profile selection.
This is then where the pop-up comes in. So I have changed settings, but only to my printer type, but that then seems to mean I want to use modified settings as the printer has changed, right?
So if I choose save modified values this would save the A1M settings of the .3mf file I downloaded with the model, is this correct? These settings are as they were downloaded but I guess it thinks I might want the printer change to be applied to this .3mf (project), so itâs offering for me to save them.
Discard modified values , would this be to discard the modified values I am now changing the project too, given that I changed it to my P1S printer, and to continue using my P1S but with the original .3mf projects settings, such as layer height etc, which were of course based on the A1M.
Use modified values, this must then be to use my printer P1S pre-set I have chosen but these settings are way off the original project, so it not only changes the printer type but so many settings I wouldnât know what is good or bad, as I said Iâm a very new to this and I am still quite point and click right now.
Basically, I see this a lot, that even when I choose a P1S profile to DL, it appears as another printer type, so I select my default P1S pre-set (nothing changed from the default from BBL on BS install) and I see this question / choice.
I can clearly see it is the wrong printer, so I have to change the printer profile, but then which choice do I select @discard to keep project settings but use my printerâ or use modified settings to use my printer and its pre-set settings and not the project settings.
If I have this correct I would choose discard modified values, as I want to use my printer but with the projects print settings. 
I am kind of thinking, after writing this, that I should always choose my printer profile and not use modified settings.
Sorry, I really have tried to get it from this thread but Iâm still confused 
TIA all
The green button âuse modified valueâ keeps the original creatorâs printing presets/profile.
To understand this, look for orange tabs/values in the downloaded project. These indicate settings that have changed from your default profile to whatever has been downloaded. They also show a circular ârevertâ button next to the setting to return them to your defaults.
- Click âuse modified valueâ: Keeps the orange (modified) values from the download.
- Click âdiscardâ: Reverts all settings to your default (black) settings.
- Click âsaveâ: You can save the current downloaded settings as a preset.
I couldnât upload a screenshot, I think due to being my first post, but I hope this helps!
Hi No_5,
Thank you very much for taking the time to summarise the settings so well.
I know it has been said many times but I always had a little doubt in my mind each time. I now feel you have clarified it in a way my brain could cope with
So my next learning curve is to understand what I should change I what I should not.
Thanks very much!
BTW, I am aware of the revert symbol next to the settings, so I get exactly what you mean 
I believe Iâve mapped it out and see two issues, both of which need to be addressed by Bambu from a software improvement side.
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There are different options depending on if you start a new blank project or open an existing one. I recommend having all 3 options (discard, use and save) for both. Discard always discards, simple. Use will copy over the settings to the new, but not store it in any presets anywhere. Save will either save a global preset to be accessed by any file, or will save it only as a preset in the currently opened project only.
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Looking at the bottom-most branch, itâs supposed to Save Modified Value as Preset Inside the Currently Opened Project, however, itâs not doing this. I believe it to be a glitch⌠Perhaps because itâs not giving a save dialogue box before the project closes (and yes, I do have mine set to prompt to save before closing projects).
It wouldnât let me post a handy diagram showing this⌠sorry
I think the root cause for all the confusion related to preset saving prompts, is that the projects openened/downloaded from Makerworld contain presets saved as User presets when they should be Project presets. This has been somewhat explained in the Bambu Studio Wiki about the presets but it is not clear how makers should âpre-processâ their project before uploading it to Makerworld. Iâm not a maker yet so I have no first hand experience on this (= how multiple printing profiles are generated).
My own expectation when I open a project from Makerworld (first selecting my printer model), is that the project will include all the needed settings to print the model as it was described in Makerworld. I also except is to be fully isolated from my own workspace, ie. it should never even try to modify my user presets. The models quite often include model specific optimisations which are nice but have nothing to with other models and thus should be project presets.
Below is an example of Bambu Lab provided Bambu spool from Makerworld. How it works âout-of-boxâ and how you can âfixâ the project without messing your own presets. The same process can be used when you tweak a downloaded model and want to include the process preset changes inside the project.
Step 1 - Opening the model from Makerworld
Select your printer and print profile and click âOpen in Bambu Studioâ
Step 2 - Project opens in Bambu Studio
Expectation is that it opens with printer selected in Makerworld. But it opens with some random printer (original makers?) selected.
It also shows multiple change indications to the process user preset indicated in orange color.
Step 3 - Closing project without touching anything
Thinking perhaps you selected wrong printer in Makerworld, you just want to close the project. Expectation is that the BS closes but you are presented with the prompt for Unsaved changes. This should never be shown, or rather the application should never end up in a situation where opening and closing a project file would result in âunsaved changesâ.
Step 4/5 - Save Modified Value
If you click âDiscard Modified Valueâ in the previous step, the application closes and nothing is changed.
If you click âSave Modified Valueâ you will be presented with âSave presetâ dialog with âUser presetâ preselected. Since you had no idea in the previous step where the changes would be saved (user or project), at this point you would probably change it to âPreset Inside Projectâ and hit ok. The application closes.
Step 6 - Reopening the project
When reopening the project the expectation is that the project would reflect the changes saved in previous step. However nothing has changed and if you go look at the file, the file modification time has not been changed. So saving a project preset when exiting the application does not work.
Step 7 - Save Current Process
Now letâs fix this. Start by clicking âSave Current Processâ
Step 8/9 - Save Process as preset inside project
Change it to âPreset inside projectâ and give process preset meaningful name
Step 10 - Close application
Closing application will give you unsaved project changes prompt, just click yes.
Step 11 - Reopen project to verify
When you reopen the project the printer and process preset is correctly set and there are no orange change indications. This is how it should have been right from the start when opening from Makerworld.
Finally something simple and to the point this is what I want.