Hi all,
as said in another thread, I think it would be a great feature to be able to disable the parallel processing to get back the "old" slicing quality of cura <=2.4.
However, what about doing the parallel processing not layer-wise but blocks-of-layers wise?
For example, one could assign layers 1..20 to thread 1, 21..40 to thread 2, etc. Within each block-of-layers the slicer could make use of starting a new layer at where the last one ended, and only after every 20 layers it would have to start at a possibly suboptimal position.
BTW, one more great option would be to have a "don't care" for print order, but just print shell, infill, holes, etc in any order just to avoid travels. For more technical objects, such as mounts, ducts, gears, etc, surface is not the most important thing so they may profit from such an option. Stupid idea?
Best regards,
Andre