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Ed Hume
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Feature request - group select for extruder choice set

For MMU prints with inlayed text, the user has dozens or hundreds of bodies that need the extruder choice specified 1 by 1.

I have two suggestions -

(1) when the design is imported give all bodies the default extruder number.  The app does this for bodies treated as separate parts, and it should do it for bodies treated as one part.

(2) the app does allow group selection of bodies with Ctrl-click and Shift-clicks.  So for a selected set of bodies provide a right-click action to set the printable attribute and/or the extruder attribute.

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Posted : 07/06/2021 9:40 pm
Neophyl
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RE: Feature request - group select for extruder choice set

Hiya Ed.  Unfortunately this is mainly a user to user forum and while the devs do pop in occasionally, its not often.  All feature requests and actual bug reports need to be made at the Prusa Slicer github repository located here https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues

When opened there the issue is given a number and will be tracked.

Given that there are nearly 1700 open issues it may be that your request has already been made so please do a search to see if a similar one already exists before opening a new issue.  If one does then you can add your support to it.

Posted : 08/06/2021 5:52 am
Diem
 Diem
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RE: Feature request - group select for extruder choice set

with inlayed text, the user has dozens or hundreds of bodies that need the extruder choice specified 1 by 1.

Why are you importing text as multiple bodies?  Are you colouring it letter by letter?

I usually keep text as a single object so that it's just one extruder selection.

Cheerio,

Posted : 08/06/2021 5:08 pm
Ed Hume
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Topic starter answered:
RE: Feature request - group select for extruder choice set

@diem

That may be a good point for some people.  My CAD program, Solidworks, creates the disjoint text letters as separate bodies.  I just tried to combine the bodies and there is an error result.  Thanks for the input.

Posted : 08/06/2021 5:38 pm
Diem
 Diem
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RE: Feature request - group select for extruder choice set

I've not tried Solidworks, most of my stuff is OpenSCAD.

One thing I would try - create the text as usual, difference it from a block to create a single object then difference it again to regain the text as a single entity.  Caveat:  I have never tried this with Solidworks but it's worth an experiment.

Cheerio,

Posted : 08/06/2021 11:04 pm
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