Some slicer improvement suggestions  

Some slicer improvement suggestions

Greetings dear [imagine I wrote your name here].

Here are some odd behaviors that I'm having in Prusa Slicer, or just some suggestions that would make my life easier at least. I'm on version 2.33 on a Windows 7 machine.

Configurable Gcode Export Name Syntax

• It would be great to be able to change the "default naming" for exporting GCode.
• Add support for any variable that makes sense to expose
• Also add "custom variables" that show up in the right-side panel if you add them.
  • This could be useful for whatever value I want to change for all my prints

Toggle for auto-slice in the Print Settings pane

• So you can quickly disable it if you're doing multiple changes to a heavy model.

Auto-slicing delay or pause

• Maybe it makes sense to delay the auto-slicing by a second or two (with an option).
• And also have an option to prevent or pause it if another tool is being used.

Auto-slicing interrupts move tool

• There's a bug that happens when you move a mesh as the program is auto-slicing.
  • As it's done slicing, your ongoing move is undone.
  • This is frustrating when trying to correct an auto-arrange mesh layout.
• It may interrupt other tools too, but this frequently happens to me when moving pieces around the plate for layout purposes when I have auto-slicing enabled.
• If the auto-slicing was quicker to access, it wouldn't be as big of a problem.

The Arrange feature often creates unoptimized patterns.

The auto-slicing issue above comes from this issue where:

• If I have 20 copies, I may get 4 in the first row, 5 in the second, 6 in the third, 5 on the fourth row.
• Instead I would expect a 4 by 5 or 5 by 4 grid, since I'm duplicating objects.

Slicing Presets name recursion bug

• When you "Save As" for a project, the Print Settings (the preset drop-down at the top of the right-side panel), gets the name of the old file.
• If you then "Save As" again, it becomes: "Old file name (old file name)", which becomes unreadable.

The whole toolbox to the left is unclickable unless you select your mesh first.

• It's more common that you first pick the tool, and then the object you want to manipulate.
• Like IRL, you pick up the hammer, then choose the nail to smack.

3mf file format opening does not open it as a "project"

• If you have assigned the .3mf-format to the PrusaSlicer software, and you double-click on a file, it will open the .3mf, but it won't have said 3mf open as a "project".
• This means the first time you go to File > Save, it will do a "Save As", even if you already have a project file opened.
• The name of the 3mf is not listed in the window name, it just says: "PrusaSlicer".
• If I do a "File > Open Project" and load a .3mf-file, it opens properly, and the window title is set to the name of the 3mf-file.