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== Introduction ==

Using the printer configurator you can select and configure your printer and all of its components and the filaments. The selected and configured printer and filaments have great influence on the result of the slicing process and the generated GCode. The slicer engine uses the available parameters rules and overrides coming from the printing environment and generates the most suitable GCode based on them.

[[File:Printer configurator.png|none|thumb|Printer configurator]]

== General usage ==

=== Cogwheel icon ===

By clicking on the cogwheel icon, the application will take you to the related settings of the particular item.

=== Selector Dropdowns ===

Every Selector shows the available instances of that type of component. There is an extra permanent item at the bottom of the menu to create a new instance (of printer, filament, etc.)

== Printer Selector ==

With the help of the Printer Selector you can select the active printer that you want to target your GCode. Selecting a printer updates the whole panel, and recalls the last configuration with filament selection. It also updates the 3D View with the new build volume and printer models.

== Printing Mode Selector ==

Custom printer modes are possible to implement and every custom printing mode can interfere with the slicer engine. It is suitable to configure custom printer modes like:
* Fast/Draft Modes: High acceleration and speed modes
* Stealth Modes: Low vibration S-Curved, low acceleration mode for better results
* Other general purpose printing modes: Special mode that changes the printer environment's behaviour.

This parameter offers extra printing modes for dual extruder printers. 

* Default (available for all printer types)
* Dual head (only for printers with dual extruder)
* Backup (only for printers with dual extruder)
** CraftBot Flow printers have a mechanism to detect filament jam. In this case, if the problem cannot be resolved by the printer itself, it will utilize the secondary head and it will finish the print with that.
* Mirror (only for printers with independent dual extruder)
** CraftBot Flow IDEX printers have independent extuders, so it is possible to print a mirrored version of the main object using the secondary extruder.
* Parallel (only for printers with independent dual extruder)
** With dual printing, you can print the same object in the same time.

== Bed Selector ==

With the bed selector you can easily change the selected bed if you have more interchangeable type. This helps you handle the optimal build plate adhesion, printing areas and bed offsets automatically.

== Head Configurator ==

The Head Configurator handles the list of the physical or virtual heads available in the printer up to 32 heads. Every head can possess an own extruder (even with different nozzle diameter) and an own filament.

The colour of the icon in the header reflects the head filament's colour for the easier identification.

=== Extruder Selector ===

You can select the currently selected head's extruder.

=== Filament Selector ===

You can select the currently selected head's filament from the available list.

=== Temperature shortcuts ===

In Craftware Pro, the actual filament dictates the temperature it needs to be printed with. For this reason '''Print temperature''' and '''Bed temperature''' are shortcuts to the selected filament's temperature requirements.

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