Suggested Preform improvements

[JohnHue]

@gtl

For #2) The Printability checks depend on some of the current values in the Supports panel such as Density, and loading an existing .form file will not restore the settings in the Supports panel that you had when you originally generated those supports. What this means is that say I import a part, change the Density slider to 0.50, then generate supports, it should show it as Printable. If I then save that .form file, Quit PreForm, and then re-open PreForm and load that .form file, it will now re-calculate Printability using the default Density of 1.0, which Printability may flag as being problematic.

This is pretty relevant to this request :

No Default Settings? Crazy

Is there a way to save default support settings? I need a way to set up defaults in general. A lot of time is taken up by entering the same support settings everytime I open Preform. The current default settings are generally crap (too many supports, thick base, etc). I’ve seen this discussion before but I’m starting a new one to see if there is news on the matter. I love the Form 2 but I would have thought that a thirty-five hundred dollar machine would have basic features like default settings…

And the numerous other similar one which have been made since the beginning of PreForm.

Thanks for pointing out this issue, it’s crazy to me that the printability check is being done based on setting that are not dependent on the model. Even more crazy, it’s the first time we hear of this despite the fact that the unreliability of the printability assessment has been reported several time over the last year at least. I’m usually very supporting of Formlabs and the products in general but it would have saved lots of users a lot of time just to be aware of this, I hope it will be fixed soon… how hard is it to store a few numbers in the .form package ?