The new preview controls are very nice! Maybe that menu should be be renamed "Print Preview" instead of "Pause", since it now does much more than pause.
A slightly more higher-contrast color for the seams might be good or user-selectable colors for the various features.
havent tried to print such models, but i think that on the models i saw this, i am under the impression that the material consumption was less than expected
+2 on cool update Really like the seam view, mirroring, and ability to remove various print features from view. :)
some support creation issues though...
Issue with support lite option. When I turn it off, the supports appear to be ok. (edit bridges missing http://imgur.com/a/gkVmN)
The new preview controls are very nice! Maybe that menu should be be renamed "Print Preview" instead of "Pause", since it now does much more than pause.
A slightly more higher-contrast color for the seams might be good or user-selectable colors for the various features.
First of all, congrats for the new update. I believe it packs a bunch of very useful features that we expected to see in Z-Suite. Unfortunately, I will subscribe to those who have support issues. Let me walk you through what I did:
I decided to print the new upgraded top cover by Zortrax (http://library.zortrax.com/project/extruder-top-cover/) and loaded the file from within Z-Suite, Library tab. You can find the settings I wanted to print with in the first image.
I went through with those settings generating a preview of the build for just one piece of the cover. All looks and probably prints well.
Added the second piece of the top cover and with the same settings generated the print preview. Now it seems layers are missing from the preview but it turns out that this won't print properly either. I had to stop it when it reached the missing layers because it was failing. See image number two for details.
Turning off the support lite feature seems to be fixing this issue though (image number three) I think I speak for everyone that we'd prefer to have them both working. There are cases and materials when support removal is harder with standard supports and the lite counterpart is absolutely necessary.
Anyway, let us know if we can help you get to the bottom of this. Thanks!
I did another quick test regarding the fan speed oscillations. Compared a 3DBenchy sliced in 1.7.x with one sliced in 1.8.0. (Z-ABS, 140µm, medium infill, no support). It's quite visible that the base shape of the graph is the same but the version sliced with 1.8.0 shows heavy oscillations because the fan speed jumps up to 100% every few layers.
A more in depth analysis of the raw values shows patterns like this:
