We're on GitHub Now — Starting With Our Printer Profiles
We've opened a GitHub organisation: github.com/Forge-Figures-3D-Prints. It's linked in the footer on every page from today, and the first repository is already up.
Why a print shop needs version control
This started as a housekeeping problem rather than a grand open-source gesture. Creality Print stores your custom presets in an application-support folder that gets wiped or migrated whenever the software updates. Every printer profile, every filament profile, every process profile — all the calibration work that makes a print come out right the first time — sits in a directory that isn't really yours to keep.
We've lost that folder before. Re-dialling a Z offset and a set of cooling curves from memory is a slow, annoying afternoon, and the second attempt is never quite the same as the first.
So the profiles live in Git now, where they can't quietly disappear.
What's in the first repo
creality-print-setup holds the presets for the three machines in the workshop — the Hi, the K1 Max, and the K2 Plus — split into the three things Creality Print actually cares about:
- Printer profiles — machine settings, Z offsets, kinematics.
- Filament profiles — temperatures and cooling, per material.
- Process profiles — layer height, infill, supports.
There's also a small Python tool, tools/sync.py, that moves presets between the repo and the installed app in either direction (status, export, import), plus a test suite that checks a profile survives a full round trip without losing or mangling a single field. That last part matters more than it sounds: a sync script that silently drops a setting is worse than no sync script at all.
Why make it public
The honest answer is that there was no good reason to keep it private. These aren't trade secrets — they're the boring, hard-won numbers that come out of running the same three printers for a long time and paying attention. If you've got a Hi or a K1 Max sitting on your desk and you're tired of test cubes, you may as well start from ours.
It's MIT licensed, so "start from ours" is an actual offer rather than a figure of speech — copy them, change them, use them in something commercial, no permission needed.
It also keeps us honest. When we say a part came off the K2 Plus at a particular layer height, the profile that produced it is a link away.
What's next
More will land there over time — the tooling we write around the fleet, and anything else that's more useful shared than sitting on one machine in Cape Town. It won't ever be a large or fashionable set of repositories; it'll just be the real stuff we use.
Nothing about how you order changes. This is for the people who like knowing what's under the lid.
Want something printed?
The profiles are the plumbing — the prints are the point. Send us a WhatsApp with what you're after and we'll quote it.