I spent good chunk of time to debug this issue.
Technical Context:
Snorca have all the 3rd party filament profiles and generic profiles that REAL Orca supports(Least it was there till the snorca version 2.1.*), However, the JSON file containing the maps of these profiles get cleaned up at the start of the Snorca. I attempted to add the same JSON file from Orca to Snorca, but it was still cleaned up.
Checked with support on why its cleared, ans I got “Its product decision.“
Problem:
When we create a custom profile in Orca, we essentially inherit the Orca profile we used to create our custom profile.When this file is imported into Snorca, since Snorca doesn’t have the inherited profile, it doesn’t recognize the custom profile.
Solutions:
- Don’t use Snorca. Seriously, with custom firmware that allows you to control your printer remotely and modify the extruder count in the printer profile, you get functionality comparable to Snorca, if not better.
- If you still want to export your custom filament profiles from Orca to Snorca, here are the steps:
- Create new custom filament
- Select copy current filament preset, and select the custom filament you are trying to import to snorca
- Snorca will be able to import this new filament profile.
Why this works:
On creating custom filament, it brings in the inherited filament properties to custom filament profile, since there is no inherit to some filament profile that snorca do not understand, its able to import it
