Adding Filament profiles and colors to firmware

Hi all,

I was curious as to whether i was missing the functionality to assign more colors to the interface on the U1. So for example, If I’m using Polymaker Polyterra, there are 24 colors loaded when i manually assign the filament profile. The challenge is that a lot of the colors i have don’t fit neatly into the somewhat small palette. Obviously I can assign the correct color in Snorca, but when i get to the machine I’m stuck with, for example, one brown, but i have 4 different browns i use and it’s hard to remember what’s loaded unless I’m directly next to it. I was honestly pleased that Polymaker stuff was even in there, but it would be even better if I could have a little more accuracy on what’s loaded.

Am I missing something? This is obviously not critical to getting great prints, but it would be awesome to have some kind of RGB selection to customize that on the unit itself to prevent me from making a mistake and just getting accurate assignments when sending something straight from the slicer.

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Welcome in @PudgyUnicorn :sign_of_the_horns::sign_of_the_horns:

Thanks for asking this, as it drives me crazy… :joy:

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I totally get it might be a little later as it’s not critical, but man it would be helpful. Even if it’s just a pass through from Snorca.

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I also don’t understand why Polymaker is on the machine but not in SnOrca… Correct? Ugh, I gotta stop guessing when I’m not at home/my computer :joy:

Same here with Green. I had two Green petg loaded, light and dark one. And as one ran out, the other was used automatically by accident. Was a funny result.

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I believe you can disable the next closest color from being used.

Yeah, sure. But normally i want to use it and not to think about enable and disable. Need some kind of color wheel to chose color from. Additionally there shall be the other loaded colors displayed to chose to just confirm i loaded some roles of equal filament.

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I don’t use SnOrca, but I could see wanting to take a picture of the filament and use that instead of assigning a color.

Understood. I think it’s a great feature; however the lack of a full color wheel is disappointing. I’m a big fan of looking up hex codes for accuracy.

Yeah. A color wheel or a reasonable hex code structure would be great. that’s what is in snorca so I can at least be approximate before slicing. Having something like that would be great. I don’t need to bloat the firmware with full filament libraries, but just an adjustable color wheel would be grand.

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We’ve noted the palette and filament issues and have them scheduled for optimization.

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Whoa an important person actually responded?! And might even help make it real? Even if this is a standard response pat-on-the-head-with-an-“Ok timmy, now back to your seat” I appreciate it. :slight_smile:

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You’ll see that a lot! I’ve been on the forum for almost a month now and the Support has been amazing :sign_of_the_horns::sign_of_the_horns: