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gradientspace / gsSlicer

3D printing slicer
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Support for Collaborative 3D Printing #3

Open viniciusmiguel opened 6 years ago

viniciusmiguel commented 6 years ago

Feature Request

The project Escher was a great idea, but the slicer on netfabb is very limited, one of the main flaws is the lack of double extruder for support material. Would be great to have this capability on this slicer.

rms80 commented 6 years ago

I fully intend to support multiple extruders, I have just recently purchased a dual-extruder machine for this purpose (despite 3D printing for ~5 years I had never used one before).

The main complication for initial multi-extruder support is just getting the per-object material information propagated through the slicing and into the lower-level toolpathing. This requires adding 'material' fields to many internal data structures, and in some cases separating per-material operations. So, it will probably be 3-6 months before this is supported.