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Auto orientate on import to reduce overhang and improve print quality

Open JamesRHarris opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

2.2.0+win64 Windows 10 pro 19628.1 Prusa mk3s

On stl import the model is often oriented on the build sheet poorly. There should be a tool to orientate the model optimized to print. Simply the orientation that reduces the most amount of overhang and needs the least amount supports should be default. I would also suggest this option be a default in the simple profile as good orientation greatly improves build quality and success.

New Feature Request.

JamesRHarris avatar May 18 '20 23:05 JamesRHarris

It would be awesome if there was an Auto-Rotate button, so you can use minimal support.

Animo78 avatar May 26 '20 13:05 Animo78

This works reasonably well in it's CURA-specifc implementation : https://github.com/ChristophSchranz/Tweaker-3

gcarvalho avatar Jan 20 '21 08:01 gcarvalho

This would be so useful, especially since this and tree supports are the only things stopping PrusaSlicer from being the best slicer out there imo

nyxaria avatar Sep 26 '21 09:09 nyxaria

Does this make more sense now with organic supports?

saucesome avatar Feb 09 '23 03:02 saucesome

Support this for sure, makes even more sense now that we also got organic support for FDM. No reason this math should only be available for SLA

dmsheets377 avatar Jun 29 '23 14:06 dmsheets377

I would, in addition, request to have an auto-orient function that optimizes for print time. E.g. I have an STL (yet another fidget infinity cube v2) which prints 2:50h when imported and oriented horizontally along the print sheet (or after using auto align), and only 2:45h if I rotate it by 45 degress into any direction. Having this done automatically instead of reslicing the object at various angles to find the shortest time would be awesome.

subworx avatar Nov 06 '23 12:11 subworx