12 hours ago, lance-greene said:cura already has this feature, you can put multiple parts on the buildplate and it will print 1 entirely before moving onto the next one, and completing that one before moving onto the next. you just need to list the size of your hotend in the machine definition so it knows how large it is so it doesnt hit anything.
lance-greene, The idea is to not print the entire part at a time, and to print a few layers, then several layers of another part, then it repeats.
I also thought about this possibility. Then you can place the parts quite close to each other. And this will be less stringing.
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That's not exactly the same.
What my program does is break up the object into nonoverlapping parts with a safe distance. Essentially, every disconnected part of every layer becomes its own "object". Then it tries to reorder the "objects" to minimize travel in three dimensions without the print head bumping into anything. Doing this manually in Cura would be impractical.
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