How to Add a Custom Filament Profile in OrcaSlicer

To add a custom filament profile in OrcaSlicer, clone the closest generic preset, change what is different about your spool, and save it under a new name. OrcaSlicer ships generic presets and many vendor profiles, but a tuned profile for your specific filament gives more consistent results. This is the short version of how to make one.

Create a profile from a generic

1. In the filament dropdown, pick the closest generic preset (Generic PLA, Generic PETG, and so on).
2. Edit it for your spool: nozzle and bed temperature to the manufacturer's range, plus flow ratio and cooling if you have tuned them.
3. Click the save icon next to the filament dropdown and save under a clear name like Polymaker PLA Pro.

Starting from a generic preset means you inherit good defaults and only change what your filament actually needs. For dialing in flow and temperature properly, the calibration tools and the OrcaSlicer CLI reference are the companions to this.

Third-party brands

For brands without an official preset, clone the right generic, set temperatures from the spool or spec sheet, calibrate if you want precision, and save under the brand and material. Vendor forks like ElegooSlicer ship their own-brand filament presets, but in stock OrcaSlicer you build them yourself.

Import an existing profile

If you already have a profile file, do not rebuild it. Use File > Import > Import Configs to bring it in. Bundles, .ini files, and shared profiles all come in this way; the full process is in exporting and importing settings in OrcaSlicer. The same idea applies on the other side of the family in Bambu Studio.

Why this matters for a print farm

A filament profile should belong to the material, not to one install of OrcaSlicer. In a farm the same spool can run on any machine, and they all need identical settings for consistent output. Re-creating profiles per machine, or hoping they stay in sync, does not scale.

Printago runs OrcaSlicer as a cloud slicing engine and imports OrcaSlicer filament profiles directly, so the profile you built here comes straight into the cloud slicer instead of being rebuilt. It attaches profiles to the material itself, so the right filament settings follow the material to whatever printer runs it. See material intelligence and print farm slicing.