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Print Settings groups the active recipe into Machine & material, Layers & structure, Motion & extrusion and Fit profiles. The shared setup bar shows the selected printer, nozzle, material, layer height, slicer and fit recipe under Active print setup. Its Settings, Calibrate and help controls lead to the relevant workflows. The recipe summary updates as you change the workspace; it does not create physical verification.
Machine & material includes the printer selector, installed nozzle, slicer choice, spool database and temperatures. Expand Machine specifications & sources for hardware limits, references and the custom-printer action. Layers & structure contains layer height, walls, infill, solid layers, brim and supports.
Motion & extrusion keeps the existing Print speeds choice and shows editable numeric motion only for Nexlock / custom speeds. Flow, retraction and cooling remain editable. Expand Performance & finish trials for the existing optimization controls. Fit profiles groups automatic matching and saved calibration.
Save defaults persists the current printer and process. Defaults saved appears only after a successful save of that recipe; further edits change the status. Save tool setup opens the private-project save dialog for a separator instead of overwriting normal brick defaults. Download print recipe exports the current recipe. Starting settings expands the existing reset action and its explanation.
Printer & material provides the everyday selections and an expandable printer/recipe summary. Open Settings → Print settings for the complete process, including temperatures, walls, infill, speeds, extrusion, cooling, retraction and adhesion. This is also where speed and surface trial controls remain available.
A recipe is a starting point or a record of a tested process. It cannot promise perfect connections on every printer, spool or build plate. Changing a physical process value requires another fit check before continuing to use Tested status.
For Companion-supported printers, Print speeds → Slicer defaults · normal uses the installed slicer process. Companion resolves the exact installed machine/nozzle and its standard process, then retains its speeds, accelerations and available jerk values. These are the installed preset’s values, not advertised maximum speeds or the recorded K2 Pro reference motion.
The designer’s Printer & material box, Calibration → Test bench → Printer & starting recipe and Print settings share this choice. Geometry, selected layers, shells, flow, temperatures and cooling stay in the recipe. Numeric Nexlock speed fields are inactive and hidden in normal mode. Dedicated outer-wall speed and acceleration tests override only their labeled field.
Manual-import printers use editable Nexlock starting speeds. Enter the recipe values into the installed slicer and keep a record of what you actually print.
For comparisons that follow the shared Print speeds choice, select Nexlock / custom speeds to use recorded or faster motion. Restored reference · stud grip only is an explicit exception: it selects the recorded custom motion by default even when the workspace uses Slicer defaults · normal. Use that test’s Print pace selector for its optional faster-interior/travel trial; changing the global speed mode first is unnecessary.
Opening an earlier saved part or explicitly applying a saved fit restores its own recipe; existing records and Tested evidence are not rewritten. Reset to current slicer speeds clears a recorded motion snapshot for a new comparison.
Update Companion in the app with Check for Updates → Install & restart before using normal mode. The prepared project reports the exact standard preset and actual motion values. Missing or incomplete native presets produce an error instead of guessed brick speeds.
| Control | What it changes |
|---|---|
| Layer height | Vertical layer steps and print duration; permitted values depend on nozzle size. |
| Flow ratio | Extrusion quantity for a spool and process; it does not change the CAD stud size. |
| Outer wall speed / acceleration | Motion on visible and mating surfaces; corner behavior also depends on pressure advance. |
| Inner wall, infill and travel motion | Potential throughput gains away from the most visible surfaces. |
| Volumetric limit | Maximum material throughput; it can cap requested speeds. |
| Cooling and minimum layer time | Cooling strength and possible slowdown on short layers, studs and bridges. |
| First-layer preparation | Adhesion and bottom-rim behavior; inspect the cooled base before judging assembly. |
Calibration → Notebook → Named setups keeps private snapshots of a complete printer, nozzle, filament and recipe. Save current setup captures the current recipe; Apply previews the change before replacing the working setup. Update from current recipe is explicit.
Named setups do not replace shared Print Settings defaults or certify fit. A stored calibration session retains its own snapshot when you later edit a named setup.
Keep a known geometry and spool while testing a process variable such as flow or temperature.
Use that test candidate’s matching recipe. Print process candidates separately when their global slicer settings differ.
Inspect cooled samples for corner bulges, seam bumps, bowed walls and lifted bottoms.
After changing process settings, repeat the functional connection checks with the same reference.
Faster requested speeds do not guarantee a faster sliced job. Small parts can be limited by acceleration, maximum volumetric flow, cooling slowdown and short paths. A full plate can behave differently from a single sample.
The 4.80 mm comparison keeps a controlled surface recipe and no brim, raft or elephant-foot compensation. Bed condition, first-layer setup, drafts and spool behavior still affect flatness. Use the actual sliced preview for time estimates; the website does not certify a universal one-hour production profile.