3D Filament Profiles, a new community driven database, is trying to solve one of the most tedious parts of 3D printing: finding good settings for every filament.
Standardized Filament Profiles Finally Arrive
A new community project has launched this week that might finally fix one of the most annoying unsolved problems in desktop 3D printing: consistent filament profiles.
The Problem
Right now every manufacturer publishes their own temperature recommendations, and they are almost always wrong. Real world settings vary wildly between printers, nozzles and even batches of the same filament. Every maker ends up building their own private list of working profiles that they never share.
3D Filament Profiles
The new 3DFilamentProfiles.com database is a crowdsourced repository of real world tested profiles. Right now it has over 1200 entries from 70 different brands, with user submitted temperature, retraction and cooling settings.
Entries are moderated and scored, so bad profiles get voted down. The site also has an export function that will generate profile bundles directly for Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer and OrcaSlicer.
What This Means
This is the first serious attempt at building a shared open database of filament settings. If it gains traction it could save makers literally hundreds of hours of calibration work every year.
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