Pleccer beta1 almost ready! To be out next week(end)!

[rvmn]

The roadmap changed a bit by the switch from BambuStudio forking to PrusaSlicer, but.... It is going very well and is quickly going to be production ready. Beta1 has been postponed till next week, but there is a new alpha, alpha4

A lot of features are in alpha4, i will name the main ones, and report all in the release notes.

• Z Hop ala 'spiral upward' support (thanks to BambuStudio), handy for travel-rich models like geometrical skeletons; solves stringing
• Arc overhang infill to print overhangs without support, with by default small pillars on edges, can be both organic or grid/snug type
• Pedestal-based spiral type infill, good for printing fullcontrol.xyz stuff with a pedestal/pillar instead of a bridge edge
• Overhang support margin settings, to pick if none/edges/..mm of the overhangs will be supported
• Support fallback enabler that will use the other support type (grid in case of organic) if none was generated for an object
• Basic mixing extruder support, using this option as extruder setting lets you pick unlimited colors to paint with and handles the gcode command for mixing in the background
• Color picker called colorgrab that lets you pick colors from the screen and save them into a palette

A peek of what beta1 brings in sense of supports and overhang printing: overhang settings for both organic and grid support (Low,Med,High) and an option to fall back onto the other as secondary support type.






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That's it for alpha4, just as a small goodie of what will be released in the coming beta (beta1) among other things:

• wipe into supports (also combine-able with wipe into infill or object), see image below
• mixing extruder calibration
• klipper support
• per-object overhang setting
• small optimizations like better pedestal picking, an auto z-hop enabler