Slic3r is much faster than Skeinforge, and easier to set up. You can save your current settings, and so build up a library of configurations for different types of filament, or different Z-heights or fill patterns. That’s good.
What it doesn’t do is remember your favourite default settings from run to run. Here I explain how to have Slic3r on Windows start up with your defaults, so you don’t have to remember to load them manually.
Windows gurus will know this without thinking, but I had to work it out for myself. In outline, we’re going to create a configuration file and save it somewhere safe. Then we’ll create a shortcut to the Slic3r executable, and edit the shortcut’s properties so it loads your config file each time it runs.
- Run Slic3r, and set your preferred values in the fields of all the tabs.
- Click ‘Save Configuration’. Browse to “C:\Users\YourName” and save the file as “Slic3r_config.ini”. Close Slic3r.
- Right click on the Slic3r icon that you use to run Slic3r, then click the ‘Properties’ button, then the ‘Open File Location’ button.
- Right-click on the Slic3r.exe file and click ‘Create Shortcut’.
- Right-click on the new shortcut, click ‘rename’, and name it ‘Slic3r Default’ or ‘Slic3r Yellow PLA’ or something else meaningful to you.
- Right-click on the new shortcut again, and click ‘Properties’
- In the ‘Target’ field, add the following at the end of the line
--load "C:\Users\YourName\Slic3r_config.ini"
Note that’s two dashes in a row
- Click ‘Ok’
All done. Now when you double-click the new shortcut, it’ll run Slic3r with all your settings already loaded. I right-clicked on the shortcut and clicked ‘Pin to Start Menu’ so it is easily available from the Start Menu.
One less thing to have to remember.
(I don’t need to spell out that you replace YourName with your real windows user name do I?)
