18 minutes ago, Slashee_the_Cow said:If you don't mind me asking, why? (and if you do mind me asking, you don't have to answer that)
I have had several cases where the design of the model was such that slicer-generated supports simply would not do the job, so I built the supports as objects in CAD. I've been using Solidworks for over 20 years, so sometimes I get better results designing the supports while I'm making the part. Anyway, when I brought the models in, each support structure was a separate object, along with the actual part of course. As is normal, the supports print at the same time as the part, so all-at-once mode is necessary. The print order became important because the slicer chose illogical orders for printing the supports and the part, which not only cost a ton of print time, it degraded the part by passing the nozzle over the model many more times than was necessary (some supports were inside the hollow part and some were outside). These were transparent PMMA (acrylic) prints, so the wall defects substantially affected the quality of the finished parts. Had I been able to set the print order, I could have saved perhaps 5% on the not-insubstantial print time as well as reducing the visual defects by 75% or more. I'll grant you that it is not a common use case, but it isn't hard to think of others that would be far more common.
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The developers very rarely read the forum (which is why using the "feature request" and "bug report" forms on the Cura GitHub repo are so important) and have received more than enough requests already to know that it is a highly desired feature.
For the majority of people, it is a solution (even if it's only a workaround). There are many threads which have solutions marked but that solution does not work for everyone with that problem.
If you don't mind me asking, why? (and if you do mind me asking, you don't have to answer that)
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