Overview

Introduction

Print Profiles form the backbone of inTinker. You can think of them as a set of settings that change over time based on calibration modules and print profile actions.

If you familiar with GIT for software development, its similar to the main branch and each calibration module or profile action is like a branch you merge into master or main once you finish a calibration module.

If you not familiar with GIT, then you can just think of it as a time line where each event is a calibration module that builds on the previous profiles settings.

Creating a Print Profile

Lets walk though the steps to create a print profile

Add a Printer

1) Click the "Add new Print Profile" button on the top right of the Print Profiles page.

2) Configure your printer. The manufacturer name, model, nick name and drive style. The nickname is used to display in the print profile table under the Printer column.

The manufacturer name, model and nickname do not get used by the AI, they are for you to organize your profiles, however the drive style does influence the AIs behavior so important to select which one this profile uses.

Add a Filament

3) Similar to printer, add the manufacturer, filament name, filament type and a nickname/color that can be used for organization.

The manufacturer name, filament name and nickname do not get used by the AI, they are for you to organize your profiles, however the filament type does influence the AIs behavior so important to select which one this profile uses.

Select Nozzle Size

4) Select which nozzle size to use.

The nozzle size selected in this form will not be whats used to generate 3mf file. The nozzle size used for the 3mf thats uploaded in this print profile will be whats used. The nozzle size in this form is used for organization.

Upload 3mf

5) Select a Prusa Slicer 2.2 or newer 3mf to use as a starting point for the print profile

Its best to use a profile for the material and printer your using. You will confuse the AI if you upload a 3mf for TPU but then try and calibrate it for PETG. It wont like that.

Print Profile Details

6) Enter a name for the Print Profile and description

7) All done! Now you should see your print profile listed in the table

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Viewing Print Profiles

inTinker allows you to search by the following aspects of a print profile in the Print Profile.

• Print Profile Name

• Printer Nickname

• Filament Nickname

• Nozzle Size

Print Profile Timeline

All actions done on a print profile are tracked and saved as different versions. This allows you to keep track of changes and view and download different versions of the 3mf print profile. You can download that version of the print profile by opening any action clicking download.

Quick Download

We have designed the Print Profiles page to act like a vault that allows you to easily grab the latest version of a print profile to use on a job or print.

Simply click the latest 3mf on the print profiles page to download the latest version of the print profile.

The latest version is the module that has been completed. If there is a calibration module in progress it will download the completed 3mf from the module before that.