Change log:

• Added a PA-tuned profile for Bambu's PETG-CF (4/19/23). I usually use the Bambu presets.. but I was/am struggling with this filament. I do not recommend it.
• Added Overture Army Green PETG (4/20/23)
• Added California Filaments Matte Black PETG (5/2/23)
• Added California Filaments Golden Yellow PETG (5/2/23)
• Added California Filaments Glow (clear) PETG (5/2/23)
• Added Prusament Matte Black PETG (5/6/23)
• Retuned Prusament Galaxy Black PETG (5/19/23) - *updated settings.
• Retuned California Filaments Teal, Fluorescent Orange, & Cloudy White colors (5/28/23) - *updated PA Values, improves edge cases & wall strength.
• Added Prusament Ocean Blue PETG (5/29/23)
• Added Prusament Carmine Red PETG (6/4/23)
• Updated/Retuned Prusament Matte Black PETG & California Filaments Clear PETG (6/5/23)
• Updated/Retuned California Filaments Yellow PETG (6/11/23)
• Updated/Retuned AMOLEN Rainbow PETG (7/1/23)
• Added Prusament Chalky Blue PETG (7/19/23)
• Fixed a mistake in Prusament Carmine Red PETG min layer time (7/20/23)
• Added Prusament Yellow Gold PETG (7/20/23) - this filament tunes fine, but man is it an ugly color. Do not recommend unless you want the color of bile. They should've called this “diseased yellow”.
• Added Prusament Transparent Orange PETG (7/28/23)

What this is:

This is a collection of all of my PETG filament profiles for all filaments I've used of this type. I happen to have a decent amount of California Filaments because I've found that brand works well with this printer, and you can push the flow rates higher with it than some others.

I will update it as I tune new filament brands and colors. They are generally tuned for flow rate, pressure advance, and temperature and volumetric flow limits and overrides. They're a good working starting point for anyone struggling with a filament. I've also tuned other types of filaments (see my models here) and you should find, by category:

• TPU / Flexibles
• Nylon/PA and PACF variants
• Polycarbonate & Polycarbonate-CF
• PLA / PLA + / Silk PLA
• ABS / ASA

CHT-Nozzle versions also available (0.4 mm , Brass)

• PETG
• PLA
• TPU
• ABS/ASA

How to use:

These 3MF files are designed for use in Orcaslicer/Bambuslicer, but will work best in Orcaslicer, because it supports using a fixed pressure-advance value in the slicer.

• Load the 3MF file for the filament of your choosing. Files are named as <Brand>__.3mf.
• (optional, recommended): Save the filament and/or print presets for your own use to your user presets for future use.
• Remove the calibration cube dummy object and put your desired object in.
• Print! But, turn off flow calibration option in your prints! The more reliable PA value stored in the filament profile will be used instead, and you can skip the wasted startup time, too!
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• If you want to use these in Bambu slicer, you won't get the PA values applied automatically sadly, and you'll have to do that with a manual GCODE in the filament's start GCODE. This is really annoying to do for each filament, but it does work. However I suggest you try Orcaslicer for this reason.

Important notes:

• These profiles are tuned on an X1C, with a hardened steel 0.4 nozzle installed, for use with a range of layer heights. If you have a different nozzle size or nozzle kind (steel/brass), these will be only starting points and you should re-tune most of the variables except maybe temperature.
• Each 3MF also contains some of my own optimized settings for 0.16 mm prints, which I typically use, but these tuned filament profiles are designed/tuned to work across a variety of different print profiles.

Background:

I use the Orca Slicer variant of Bambu's slicer because it offers finer-grained control over the slicing process and makes tuning and using tuned filament profiles much easier than Bambu's official slicer, which lacks good calibration routines for some of the most important variables in good printing: flow rate, pressure advance, and temperature and volumetric flow limits.

This is particularly true for Bambu's Pressure Advance (they incorrectly call this “flow”) calibration, which forces you to run it every time and is unreliable, particularly on the popular textured PEI surface.

Each of these profiles has been tuned for:

• Flow rate (aka extrusion multiplier)
• Pressure advance (aka linear advance)
• Temperature (with temp towers)
• Volumetric flow limits (my settings are a little conservative based on printing the max volumetric flow rate calibration inside Orcaslicer)
• Overrides (I typically try to avoid using these unless I have to)

Disclaimer: These are free to use, and I do not own the OrcaSlicer calibration cube model, i'm just using it here as a convenient way to distribute the profiles.

Disclaimer: The CA filaments link in the description here is a 25% off-first-order coupon link, but I'm not affiliated with CA filaments in any way, and they did not ask me to make this post.