Projects: one-off jobs and MakerWorld models

A project is printing that does not come from a shop. It goes through the same Print Queue as orders, so delivery forecasts stay honest.

New project

• Name, for whom, needed by, and an agreed price (set one and the project shows a margin like an order).
• Parts: for each row choose the part, the printer (or Printer: automatic), the filament type, the colour (or Colour: whatever is loaded) and the quantity. Add another part adds a row.
• Press Create project. It starts in planning.

Send to queue creates the print tasks: one per part, or one per plate for multi-plate 3MF files. A printer you chose is pinned to that task.

From MakerWorld

• Paste the MakerWorld link and drop the 3MF or STL you downloaded there. PrintSol files it in a MakerWorld folder in File Manager and reads the filament type from the 3MF.
• Choose quantity, printer, type and colour, and whether to put it in the print queue right away.

With only a link, PrintSol can fetch the profile itself if someone signed in to MakerWorld under Settings → Organisation → MakerWorld (the sign-in window opens on the PC that runs PrintSol). If it cannot fetch it, the reason is in the Activity log; drop the downloaded file instead.

Editing

While a project is in planning, Edit project lets you change everything, including its parts. Once it is queued, the parts are fixed: change a print's printer, filament or count with Edit on that card in the Print Queue.

Set the status to done yourself when the project is finished. Setting it to cancelled drops its open tasks; finished prints stay in history.

Finding projects

Search covers name, for whom, parts, filament, printer, notes and the MakerWorld link. Filter by status, filament type and printer, tick only overdue, and sort by status, due date, newest, name or cost.