How to Set Nozzle and Bed Temperature in Anycubic Slicer

Temperature in Anycubic Slicer Next is set per filament, not per print, so it lives in the filament editor rather than the process settings (Quality, Speed, Support). Here is where to find it and what each temperature field controls.

Open the filament editor

In the Filament section of the left panel, each loaded filament has a ⋯ button next to its name. Click it and choose Edit. That opens the filament settings window. Select the Filament tab (it is the first one, next to Cooling, Setting Overrides, and Advanced).

The temperature fields

Scroll down the Filament tab past the material basics (type, diameter, density) and you reach the temperatures:

• Recommended nozzle temperature is a min/max range for the material, shown here as 190 to 230 °C for this PLA. It is a guide rail: the slicer warns you if you push the actual printing temperature outside it.
• Nozzle temperature is the real printing temperature, split into first layer and other layers. Run the first layer a few degrees hotter than the rest for better bed adhesion, then let the other layers settle at the material's normal temperature (around 210 °C for most PLA, hotter for PETG and ABS).
• Bed temperature is set the same way, per plate type, so a textured PEI plate and a smooth plate can each carry the right number.
• Softening temperature and Idle temperature are not print temperatures. Softening is used for heat-creep and safety logic; idle is the standby temperature the nozzle drops to when it is parked, which reduces oozing and filament cooking during long pauses.

Change a value by clicking the field and typing. Because temperature is stored on the filament, the new value follows that filament to every print that uses it, which is exactly what you want: set your PLA once, not per job.

What about purge temperature?

Purge and flush temperature only apply on a multi-material setup. During a color or material change the printer purges the old filament before laying down the new one, and that purge happens at the incoming filament's nozzle temperature, not a separate setting. What you actually tune is how much gets purged: the flush volumes on the Cooling and Multimaterial tabs. There is no standalone purge-temperature dial.

Temperatures across a farm

A filament's temperature profile is data that should travel with the material, not live in one person's desktop slicer. Printago tracks materials and their slicing profiles centrally and slices in the cloud with the same OrcaSlicer engine Anycubic Slicer Next is built on, so the right temperatures are applied automatically on whichever printer picks up the job. See material intelligence and the Anycubic Slicer overview for more.