I rarely use MakerWorld, but would like to start.
My one issue is using other print profiles. I understand they sometimes are to help those new to 3D printing. I only looked briefly before if it was possible to download a print into Bambu Slicer “without” the creator or others profile settings. Doing so changes everything in the slicer for me.
Am I doing something wrong or overlooked something where I can load them into the slicer without the profiles?
Thanks
There’s a little arrowhead pointing down at the right of the “Open in Bambu Studio” button. Click on that and you have the chance to also just download the Print Profile or only the Geometries.
If you choose the 3mf, you then have the chance to choose if you want to open the Profile or only the volumes after you have started opening the file.
Print profiles are not there to help newbies, they are there to print the model as the designer intended.
Including strength, quality, support, colours, material choices and more.
You may be well versed in 3D printing, but, are you well versed in obtaining the results needed for some quality models that have complexity?
Those profiles often include colouring information, you will not get that without the profiles.
If the model requires supports, the designer will have to have printed the model successfully using the profile, so, you should be confident the model can be printed using the profiles.
You do not lose anything or your own settings by downloading the model with the profile. You do you lose things, lot of things by ignoring it.
Download the profile tweak it if you wish, and explore the choices made by the designer.
Grabbing a couple of STLs and then recreating all the settings, painting or colouring the model, and choosing the direction of print, the wall count, and the infill so that this particular model is strong enough and the infill doesn’t affect surface quality seems like a lot of guesswork.
But, if you want to buy just the lumber and work out if you need nails or screws, how many you need, and the finish of the wood, go for it, nothing is stopping you.
I wouldn’t be asking if I couldn’t slice my own files!
And not all prints have only the creator profiles.
I remember it being said the creator profiles were to make it easier for new to printing just like the Bambu printers were.
And by your own post you confirm that.
EnoTheThracian answered my question.
Thanks
For clarity, I said the opposite.
But, as I did say…
…because, you know FAR more than the intentions of the designer’s model you wish to print.
I am glad @EnoTheThracian answered your question.
I always thought as profiles as the chosen set of parameters intended and tested by the designer to reach the goal. For example I did lost time and filament to test orientations, support types, etc not because other people are dummies, but because it’s possible (not garanted) I may have a good idea how that model should end up.
That is also true. I have a model that it can be only printed with good results with my own settings, applied in the print profile. If anyone downloads the model and tries to print it with his own profile, the model won’t be well printed, even missing some lines.
There are profiles that are well tuned, others… well, they serve the purpose of getting downloads only 