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This PR fixes some problems with the current profiles for Blocks
printers
- **Fix**: start gcode for the Blocks 0.6mm RF50 printer where the start
gcode command had no newline separation on two commands so they were
concatenated and would make printing fail.
- **Added**: multi material plates selection for the RF50 printers,
right now only textured PEI and smooth high temp plates are available,
but in the future more to come.
- **Naming consistancy** for Blocks Pro S100 processes and filaments,
target labels used bare `@Blocks` while RD50 and RF50 used
`@Blocks_RD50` and `@Blocks_RF50`. Renamed Pro S100 to
`@Blocks_Pro_S100` to match the structure.
- **Filament restructure**: replaced Blocks tuned-generic filaments
(e.g. `Generic PLA @Blocks`) with real Blocks-branded filaments. One for
each printer model. Every material keeps the same coverage we already
had.
- **Fix**: `sparse_infill_pattern` was misspelled `sparse_infill_patter`
on 13 `@Blocks_RF50` process presets. Harmless due to inheritances but
fixed non the less.
- **Fix**: `Blocks RD50 V2 0.4 nozzle.json` was missing
`printer_variant`.
- **Normalize** all Blocks profiles to standard formatting (tab
indentation, key order) and bumped `Blocks.json` version.
- **RF50 retraction length** increased on all RF50 machines.
## Tests
- [x] `orca_profile_tool.py check --vendor Blocks` - clean
- [x] `orca_profile_tool.py check` - clean
- [x] `normalize` / `generate-id` / `update-index --dry-run` — fully
settled, no pending changes
- [x] `check_profile.sh --vendor Blocks` → `profile_tool` check — passes
- [ ] `validate_system` / `validate_slice` /
`validate_filament_subtypes` / `validate_custom` —
could not run locally (dev host's glibc 2.36 is older than the nightly
validator binary's
required 2.38); needs CI or a compatible host
- [x] In-app confirmation that the Blocks bundle loads
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* profiles: enforce globally-unique, per-vendor-namespaced setting_id
Many non-Bambu vendors copied Bambu's generic setting_ids (GFSA04 alone
appeared in 1557 files), so setting_id was not globally unique. This
namespaces every vendor's ids and reserves Bambu/OrcaFilamentLibrary space.
- Reserve "G*" (Bambu) and "O*" (OrcaFilamentLibrary) id spaces.
- Assign each other vendor a 2-char prefix (first+last letter, collision
resolved) and renumber every instantiated preset to <PREFIX><NNNN>.
- Strip setting_id from base profiles (instantiation:false) per Bambu's
convention; assign one to instantiated presets that lacked it.
- Remove the pre-existing misspelled "settings_id" key (91 files).
- filament_id is left untouched (it is a per-material id).
- Add one-time migration script scripts/assign_vendor_setting_ids.py with a
persisted registry resources/profiles/vendor_prefixes.json. Re-runs freeze
existing ids; only new vendors/profiles get new ids.
- Bump version in each changed vendor index file.
- Extend scripts/orca_extra_profile_check.py with a CI guard: global
uniqueness, in-namespace, no base setting_id, no gaps, no settings_id typo.
7425 profile files changed across 61 vendors; 0 cross-vendor collisions;
validator clean; migration idempotent. BBL and OrcaFilamentLibrary id spaces
untouched.
* profiles: add setting_id authoring guide for new vendors / profiles
* profiles: drop in-repo README; setting_id guide now lives in the wiki
* profiles: derive setting_id deterministically from vendor/type/name
* bump profile version
Reduce the size of current and new JSONs by standardising them with 1 tab indentation instead of 4 spaces.
This effectively reduces the size by almost 20 MB.
| Current | New |
|---|---|
| 85.2 Mib | 67 Mib |
Used [JQ](https://jqlang.org/) `--tab` to automatically format every current JSON.
> [!NOTE]
> Some profiles had the arrays on the same line, but those created by Orca were in the standard format (each object below the previous one). In some cases, this increases the number of tabs due to the new lines, but the increase is negligible, and this way both the base profiles and those created by Orca maintain the same style.
* Add BLOCKS RD50, ProS100 and RF50 printers
Add printer configurations and profiles for Blockstech printers to OrcaSlicer
* Update RF50 thumbnail
Added the definative thumbnail for the RF50 printer model.
Hugo Costa