Some support structure related bugs and requests

[phillip_reiner]

Hi,

there are some bugs in Preform I have lately been struggling with:

• In general the Support structure should respect the the printing volume and should not cause the model to be shifted out of bounds.

• If you generate a support structure the generation may shift out of bounds (e.g. on top), once you try to change the parameters now, preform will give you the error, that you can´t do this, because the volumes is out of bounds. The only thing you can do now is reorient the whole part in order to break the support structure.

• Sometime support structure will still be created reaching out sideways and not be trimmed of.

• If you modify base thickness and Height above base before generation of the support structure they will go back to default ,after editing it.

• Sometimes support structure will be lost when opening the file on a different machine. (No idea how to reproduce at the moment…)

Some requests:

• When using multiple STLs in one file the support structure should also respect the other models.
• There should be not only the option of flat spacing, but also of what is the respected slope ratio.

Thank you for your attention.

Best,

Phillip

[Paul_Schommer]

Providing more control over the stuctures and orientation would be nice enhancements, but structures for multiple STL files would be excellent! I usually run a number of small parts at once, and being able to stack up the entire build volume would allow me to set the machine and let it go all day/night.