• Zooming with the scroll wheel is reversed
• Software doesn’t use Mac OS X interface for the menus (File, Edit etc) (as in developers’ guidelines)
• Formlab logo is mistaken for a button (to the website)
• Window keeps opening maximized
• Files browser doesn’t interact with Mac OS X file browser (can’t drop folder/file to use)
• Double clicking a .form or .stl doesn’t load it in Preform
• Can’t save sliced model (can’t slice a model (long process) while printed is disconnected, can’t share it, can’t use it again)
• Supports can’t be deleted
• In some cases (butterflyclip) duplicating a model with its supports traps one occurrence in the other’s supports (does it again if all supports are regenerated)
• Can’t generate support inside the object (possible in FDM)
• Can’t reset support settings
• Size can’t be set in mm/in. (I use this all the time, the lack of it would force me to use another software or to make some calculation based on the percentage.)
• Model can be resized to be bigger than the maximum build envelope.
• Resizing is done by moving the cursor up/down or left/right instead of from/to the centre of the model (counter intuitive)
• Can’t set rotation angle (only weird XYZ positioning)
• Some STL that don’t need mesh repair are said to need one, Preform crashes if repair is chosen
Thanks for the thoughts, Corn! We’re aware of some of the issues and questions you have, and we’re doing our best to make the software better. We’re improving our support-generation algorithms all of the time, so you should see the results of that in coming down the line.
Would you mind posting a STL that causes PreForm to crash, as you say? We’re particularly interested in seeing if we can replicate that issue here at the HQ! Thanks!
Thanks, Corn! Can you open up a ticket with us at support@formlabs.com? Please include the crash report that you’re seeing when PreForm goes down – as well as any other details you might have. We’re having some issues repeating it in house, but we do want to investigate it more completely. Does this happen every time?
likewise, I have no problem running on an HP Elitebook Win 64bit. It took less than 2 seconds to repair and display. No crashes for me. Sorry Corn, it may be a local problem…
Your model did not crash here, but I have the same problem with many of my models. Including the gyrocube from Thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:19026)
Hmmm, I’m not seeing issues with our latest software, Will. What machine are you using – are you using the OS X version as well? We’d be really curious to see any models that are crashing PreForm.
I seem to encounter the problem when using the “open” function. Sometimes it crashes even as I click File > Open. If I on the other hand choose the same file from File > Recent, the same file will load without problems. (In other words, it seems it is the open function and not the repair function, that crashes PreForm)
Here is the error message from console:
9/18/13 8:11:32.244 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503[158]: ([0x0-0x8b58b5].com.formlabs.PreForm[12797]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
For Mac users we released a patch fix for crashing experienced by some users: v 0.8.4.2 now available for download. I would try the latest release to see if that resolves the issue.