Multiple Build plates #10704
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Thank you for your feature request and ideas. Your idea of having all available combinations of settings is intriguing, but I see several negative aspects not only from a development perspective but also from a user point of view. There is a similar topic regarding exporting multiple G-Codes. I have linked it together for better reference: #8575. |
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If I have a lot to print, I'm splitting it between my printers to get it
done. For the most part it's several different colours of similar filament.
A base colour and an accent colour. Often each spool has its settings I
need to use and I might have multiple suppliers of something i print in a
lot like black abs. I've got two printers 3DQF (300C nozzle, 110C bed, 98%
extrusion multiplier) and eSun (255C nozzle, 100C bed, 96% extrusion
multiplier) churning out parts now.
Right now this means planning each build plate as a separate .3mf, usually
i start by dumping all the files I need to print into 1 3mf, fill as plate
and use "save as" to lock that plate down, build the next plate and save
it, and then I'll task plates to printers and only produce gcode and send
it to a printer when I'm ready to print.
Sometimes it's all on one printer as I've set it up differently for a
project and I'm trying to work out the fewest number of plates to print
something. Some popular projects even ship as a collection of build plates
(MMU2 Lack enclosure for example).
My own use case is more about project orgainisation than producing a folder
of g-code in one clike like #8575, i'm sending gcode to the printer direct
from the slicer, no sneaker net. The last thing I want to do is to have a
deck of gcode files to shuffle through. In this respect bambu does this
well.
A better question: are there users who don't print a project in several
different colours and then assemble, or have multiple printers, or print
parts of a model on more than one build plate, either because they won't
all fit or becasue they're limiting the time any particular print will run
for?
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Thank you for your feature request and ideas. Your idea of having all
available combinations of settings is intriguing, but I see several
negative aspects not only from a development perspective but also from a
user point of view.
imagine being able to spilt a project between an XL, a mk4, several mk3s
and a mini.
While it could be fine, I wonder if you truly process your projects in
this manner (just a question for discussion).
There is a similar topic regarding exporting multiple G-Codes. I have
linked it together for better reference: #8575
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Please implement this, make it first simple same way like "The Other" slicer is enought for start, then it can be improved? |
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Using both orca and prusa... waiting for orca to add prusas filament change configurations or for prusa to add the painting and multiple plates from orca, whoever do it first will have me. |
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Additional from mine request than was closed. Reloading STLs propagate all plates. |
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@strayr you say:
What Do you like, what dislike and frustrate you what Do you propose? Can you give some examples from your user experience? |
Good to hear. At a bare minimum (that will cause additional complaints/request for not going far enough): take the auto-arrange of parts outside the build plate into "virtual" plates that you can't see or interact with unless you translate them... and let me simply choose a plate to print. At best (my many ideas/views and some stuff from the comments above):
Those are the things I can see being part of, or being a result of having multi bed support. |
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same like artboards in illustrator / affinity designer, multiple boards / plates in one document, when exporting being able to select which plate, or just slice the active plate, have different profiles for each plate one of my models now uses different print parameters on MK4 for each part, large parts only fit 1 on a build plate, so no problem for auto arrange, but some smaller parts should be on a separate plate, but get thrown in with one of the larger ones. Enlarging the spacing between parts in auto arrange does solve the issue in this particular case, but then one can still only use translate to select build plates, and has to change print profiles accordingly. But it would be a lot more flexible to just have multiple build plates which are selectable for slicing and print parameters, and auto arrange only works one the selected build plate and parts that are on the plate |
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If it was possible to cut/copy an object or objects in one instance and paste into another instance, could that achieve some of this? |
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It would be excellent to include in this group of features the ability for the slicer to auto-cut to multiple boards. The Error for a too-large object would then look something like this:
The auto-cut to multiple boards dialog would automatically cut and display object parts on multiple boards and let you add plug, dowl, or snap connectors before finalizing. |
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I'm very confused- why can I not create more than one build plate? |
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multiple build plates at ones would be great on a regular base I leave objects outside the plate to move them on the plate before slicing, prepping all plates at once would be amazing |
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Implemented in 2.9.0-alpha1. Closing. |
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@lukasmatena is there a specific reason there's a hard limit of 9 beds? |
I work on big projects where all the parts never fit on the build plate, keeping track of waht I've printed and need to print means splititng the project over multiple sliver instances or being meticulous with wich parts are visible and not visible.
I'd like to be able to arrange parts on multiple build plates.
Auto arrange already snaps parts to build plate size boxes and it's possible to click and drag these groupings around, but I'd like to be able to slice and export each plate without having to rearrange.
Ideally I could add parts to specific plates and lock them so auto arrange didn't mess with waht I'd already sorted out.
A nice extra would be having a different set of filament/print/printer sesisngs avaialbe for each plate. perhaps I'm building somethign in multiple filaments and am arraging parts by filamant, perhaps some parts are being done on ann enclosed printer with a hardened 0.6mm nozzle and PCCF and some parts are being done in pla with a 0.4 nozzle on a crazy fast printer. Yes this really complicates things as build plates could be different sizes but imagine being able to spilt a project between an XL, a mk4, several mk3s and a mini.
I've considerd using SoftFever's orcaSlicer, but I don't like what bambu have done with the inteface, I find it really frustrating to use.
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