Copying orientation

Feature Requests & Ideas
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Hi all,

Is there a way to copy the orientation of a successful part to a different part of the same dimension? I have a part that prints fine and want to use that same exact orientation for other parts that are almost identical. Is there an easy way?

thanks!
Rusty

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All of the rotations are additive so it’s not so easy. Here’s a way to get things close.

  1. Open the original file with the rotation you like.
  2. Open the new part in the same file (I normally pick a base if it’s at some odd angle)
  3. Move (not rotate) the part next to the original.
  4. With the part selected start manually rotating the part into the same/similar orientation by typing in numbers for x, y, z rotation. These are additive so you need to keep a list of each rotation and add them up when finished. So, rotating along X by 20 followed by another rotation of 10 gives a total of 30 degrees for X.
  5. Pull in the new part again and confirm that your rotation still works. Write down the values for all new “similar” parts.
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Thanks Fred,

This is mostly what I’ve been doing. I guess now I’m making it a feature request. Seems logical to have this capability built into the software right? I’m also beginning to think people have already been requesting this.

thank you again,
Rusty

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Probably but it doesn’t hurt to ask again :stuck_out_tongue:
I took the liberty of moving this into the Feature Requests & Ideas category, I hope you don’t mind.

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This this one is super annoying AF. especially when you spend some time figuring out the perfect rotation, and them BAM, screws up the whole plate.

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As far as I can remember Formlabs is working day and night to implement this feature :wink:

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Nope I don’t mind at all - thank you!

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I can only imagine how much they always have on their plate judging by all the comments on this forum. I’m just still simply amazed that this technology works at all!

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I’m Sorry if that sounds like judging. It definitely wasn’t ment so. I just wanted to add to the post that Formlabs is already working on that topic. In fact I’m impressed about Formlabs. Thanks a lot!

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Didn’t take it that way. : )

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I’m usually supportive of Formlabs efforts to improve their products, but to be fair I don’t believe what you are saying is true.

Formlabs probably has plans to implement this feature, but I personally think that they just haven’t gotten around to actually do it at all. The reason why I think that is that it should not be so difficult to implement (much less than cupping and minima detection for example). We already have parametric orientation on 3 axis, the parts are always imported with the same plane parallel to the build platform… what we want is for the angles of the 3 planes of the parts to be stored within the .form file for each part, and to be able to copy/paste these value from one part/file to another. This is literally copy/pasting a few numbers from one file to the other, I can’t believe the software team is working day and night to implement that… What’s happening is they just have other priorities.

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Ideally even easier. Get one piece setup with supports and all as you like it, then just duplicate all the data.

boom.

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