How to change pathing in Slic3r..?
I have attached a screenshot of the GCode viewer for a belt I am trying to print.
The hotend will go to one part of the model and print parts, always returning to the original place it started from.
I want the hotend to go around and around and around until it is done printing, much like Vase/Spiral mode.
I dont get why Slic3r is making the hotend always return to the same spot.
For example, there are 60 teeth or so on this belt. The hotend will start from the bottom of the belt, go out and draw the tooth, then return to the start point, print the next tooth. 60 times!
The green lines show the hotend path for the current layer (all layers pretty much).
In the end the part is unusable because there is so much extra material on the bottom part of the printed part.
RE: How to change pathing in Slic3r..?
Oh I just fingered it out.
Slic3r, Print Settings -> Layers and Parameters, Quality (slower slicing),
I had a check box set for "Avoid crossing parameters"
By removing the check this setting was disabled and the hotend looks like it is going to do what I want it to do now.