The archive card, the library file details and the slice dialog all read
the layer height from a 3MF's project_settings.config. That records the
project's settings and can still describe an earlier process or another
plate; the plate's own G-code - what the printer executes - was never
consulted for it, because the parser read the first 4KB, enough for the
layer count in the header block but not for the config block that carries
layer_height 14-25KB in. A print running at 0.08 on the H2C archived as
0.2 with the layer count from the same file correct beside it.
The plate G-code now wins wherever the two disagree, and the plate that
was printed is the one read - the header parse used to take the first
gcode entry in the zip regardless of which plate the archive was for.
Source 3MFs, which carry no G-code, keep the project value as before.
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Stop carrying a file's layer height over the preset you picked
Bambuddy carries a designer's process deviations across a re-slice
(#2622) and pre-ticked every one that was not machine-coupled.
layer_height is one MakerWorld projects routinely carry, so picking
"0.08mm High Quality" for a file whose designer had moved layer height to
0.2 sliced at 0.2 while the dropdown still read 0.08 - the same 0.2 the
settings panel showed, tagged "from file".
Layer height and first layer height are now classified preset_defining
and treated like the machine-coupled keys: offered, never pre-selected.
The flag travels on DesignOverride so the modal and the backend agree,
and the panel's badge names the conflict and shows the preset's own value
next to the file's, so ticking one is a deliberate choice.
Published models often deviate from the stock Bambu profile on purpose -
five walls, 100% infill, a 0.1mm first layer. Re-slicing one for a
different printer discarded all of it: the picked process preset
overrides the file's embedded settings, and that override is precisely
what makes cross-printer re-slicing work, so it cannot just be dropped.
"Slice as designed" (#2611) does not help - it is all-or-nothing and
only offered when the picked printer already matches the design's
target.
The deviation list does not have to be computed. Bambu Studio writes it
into the 3MF as different_settings_to_system, laid out as
[process, *filaments, printer] - verified against real files at 2, 3 and
4 filament slots. The parser refuses any file whose array length
contradicts its own filament count rather than guessing an index, since
reading the printer slot as the process slot would carry the designer's
machine_start_gcode onto a foreign printer.
The slice dialog now lists exactly which print settings the author
changed and what each was set to, with a checkbox per setting. Design
intent - wall count, infill, layer and first-layer height, supports,
seam, brim, ironing - is ticked by default. Printer-specific values -
speeds, accelerations, jerk, fans, temperatures, prime-tower geometry -
are listed with a badge but start unticked: tuned for the author's
machine, they can be merely wrong on the target or outside the range its
profile accepts, which fails the slice outright.
Only ticked keys are sent, and only keys the source actually flags as
changed are applied. Values are written into the outgoing process JSON,
the same mechanism the support carry-over has used since #1881: for a
Standard preset pick that JSON is an inherits stub, so the patch is the
child in the chain and wins over the flattened parent. Process slot
only - filament picks are honoured as chosen.
The wiki's "this is not a settings merge" note under Slice as designed
described the gap this closes; rewritten to point at the new panel.
Translated in all locales; wiki updated. Covered by backend and frontend
tests.
maziggy