I see a lot of people claim they tune/calibrate their printer any time they use a new spool of filament. But does anyone actually do this? It feels like a waste of time when filament is so consistent, even between brands. I can understand doing it for specialty rolls, but for basic pla? Seems unnecessary
I use multiple materials from multiple brands, so yes, I do some calibration for each filaments.
I usually limit myself to the flow factor by printing a cube in vase mode and then adjust by ±2% after a print if I feel like it is needed.
For the temperatures, I go for the normal recommended values (200°C hot end and 60°C bed for PLA) without any calibration, unless there is a problem. (I think last time I printed one was for ABS because it kept curling up…)
Retraction and Linear advance seems to always give roughly the same value for each type of materials, so I ended up using an average which work well enough.
I now feel like an idiot that I’ve never thought of turning on vase mode for a calibration cube