Sequential printing with separate skirts and print order
I'm coming from S3D where you can set the order of sequentially printed objects, which is pretty key. It seems you can set the print order by strategically copying objects one after another in the order/position you want them to print. Is this the only way to order the prints?
Also, in S3D skirt setting were an attribute of each print process/object. While each object prints sequentially, the skirt is only created once around all the objects vs for each object. Can have a skirt for each object?
Thanks.
RE: Sequential printing with separate skirts and print order
It's a little clunky, but if you drag individual STLs into the Plater view they will print in the desired order. See this thread for more info. Not sure exactly what you mean about the skirt, but Prusa has just announced a new Alpha build of PrusaSlicer that is starting to implement some frequently asked-for features. Personally, I've eliminated skirts after tuning my prime line routine.
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RE: Sequential printing with separate skirts and print order
Edit: In other words -- Dragging in order seems to be it for now, but lots of enhancements are showing up.
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RE: Sequential printing with separate skirts and print order
@bobstro
Thanks for the input. I actually like how Slicer has implemented sequential printing compared to S3D. It allows you to skip a lot of tedious steps like needing to create a "process" for each model. It's a total nightmare when you want to modify a model in a full plate of the same model. Seems like Slicer is one column away (print priority) away from making this work well. Or better yet... allow drag and drop reordering of models in the Plater view.
As far as the skirt, given "o" is the object and "[0]" represents the skirt around the object, S3D gives you this...
[o] [o] [o]
but Slicer gives you this...
[o o o]
I'm essentially trying to clean off any overflow on the nozzle on each part before coming on the first layer.
RE: Sequential printing with separate skirts and print order
Has anyone figured out a way to give each object its own skirt?
RE: Sequential printing with separate skirts and print order
In PrusaSlicer 2.7.1 I do this by right clicking on the individual objects in the Print settings pane and selecting "Add settings | Skirt and brim". E.g. below I have only bothered to add it to the second object to be printed:
RE: Sequential printing with separate skirts and print order
Unfortunately, despite adding the skirt to the individual objects, the skirts for all the objects are printed before the first object.
RE: Sequential printing with separate skirts and print order
Now I am trying using a generic box added in the slicer to achieve a "skirt":
RE:
I could not get the generic box to print before the second object so I added it as a separate part that prints between the two objects time-wise. This meant I had to set the Extruder clearance Radius to a low value and be careful to take care of any clearance problems myself: