User:Peter242/Slic3r

My notes and ideas on Slic3r.

• Needs a way of scripting your own builds, so that you can actually change parameters as the GCODE is generated.
• Idea for pathing:
  • Dump-truck algorithm.
    • Keep velocity consistent.
    • Limit the angle of turns.
    • Attempt to extrude during forward movement.
    • Candidate algorithms
      • Optimal haulage routing of off-road dump trucks in construction and mining sites using Google Earth and a modified least-cost path algorithm
  • Additional pathing from CPAN/PERL
    • Lots of data--http://search.cpan.org/~kryde/Math-PlanePath-53/lib/Math/PlanePath.pm#SEE_ALSO
• Mixed X/Y change during Z movement.
  • Rather stop at a point and then change Z, keep moving along X and Y and also change Z.
• Loadable alpha STLs
  • Load your primary model STL
  • Load any secondary STLs that will be applied as 3d patches to primary model, possibly to make fixes, add support structure, etc
• Model plating on the command-line
  • Specify multiple STLs to achieve a default plate with all the STLs
  • May have to specify locations, or at least an overall clumping, otherwise default does best-guess and is probably pretty easy to hack out
• Video GPU support
• Multithreading