Features Request  

Features Request

I had used Cura mostly and Prusa Slicer until I learned of ideaMaker. It wasn't fun to have to learn a new interface. I prefer Cura for the interface/ease of navigation of printing settings with Prusa being perhaps even simpler but was having issues that were (mostly) solved with ideaMaker "per layer settings" specifically to allow change of the layer start location. In Cura it is possible for user specified coordinates based location but it is not possible from what I know to change this from layer to layer easily. It may be possible with modifiers by creating a zone to change print settings but I think I tried that but x,y, layer start location wasn't an option. Such a feature/ability to control this is very useful. Similarly to enable or disable vase mode or surface mode layer to layer would be very useful.

Lastly in my experience a feature that allows alternating line direction from layer to layer (one layer prints clockwise the next counter clockwise or vice versa) would be very nice. It may seem trivial but with highly technical thin single wall prints being able to alternate line direction can have a substantial effect on reducing the chance of voids in the surface caused by the nozzle repeatedly passing over places that the nozzle touches near or during travels. Yes hop in theory would achieve the same results however in practice and especially when using low viscosity or foaming materials hop causes more stringing.