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print items one at a time

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 9:37 am
by SHoutzager
Was wondering how to print 3 objects one at a time. So first one is completely printed before the 2nd one starts. Did not see anything in the tutorials. thanks.

Re: print items one at a time

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 9:48 am
by pascal32
I have never tried it, the option appears when you click "prepare to print" after configuring your print - the dialog which appears has a radio button for selecting sequential printing.

Re: print items one at a time

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 10:36 am
by dkightley
Printing multiple objects in their entirety in sequence in one print run is perfectly possible....but there is one very important thing to be aware of. There HAS to be sufficient clearance underneath the print head to allow the lower layers on the second and subsequent to be printed without the print head colliding with completed items.

The procedure is exactly the same as sequential printing where you set a clearance distance for the head....but you simply set the clearance to be higher than the parts. Like this:

1) Position say three parts on the bed in S3D
2) Create three processes, one for each part.
3) in each process, click Select Models and select one itel for each process.
4) When selecting Prepare to Print, select all three profiles and check the radio button Sequential Printing.
5) Set the Max height clearance to just bigger than your items & click OK

The three parts will print sequentially..WATCH OUT for clashes between the print head and the printed parts!

Re: print items one at a time

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 11:22 pm
by TheRiddick
Is there not a way to do this without having a billion processes? say I want to print 20 parts, that means I must manually create 20 processes, what a headache. Can't S3D be told to treat each object separate and finish a layer of object 1, then move to 2, etc etc so simply yet I don't see a easy way to do it for many small objects.

Re: print items one at a time

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:35 am
by Jasper
I know this is old though I'm looking for a way to print items up to 1.5mm and then start the next one up to 1.5mm, then the first to 3.0mm etc.,..

Edit, Never mind it's in the post process screen, I can select a max height clearance and then it's like I wanted it to be.

Re: print items one at a time

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:20 pm
by SWCNT
TheRiddick wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2017 11:22 pm Is there not a way to do this without having a billion processes? say I want to print 20 parts, that means I must manually create 20 processes, what a headache. Can't S3D be told to treat each object separate and finish a layer of object 1, then move to 2, etc etc so simply yet I don't see a easy way to do it for many small objects.
If you are trying to "finish a layer of object 1, then move to 2, etc" then you aren't printing sequentially. Sequentially here means the entire part is printed, then next part is printed. What you described is continuous printing (each layer of each part is printed then the next layer of each part). If you play with the height clearance, you can adjust how much of each part is printed before the head moves to the next part.
If you want to do sequential printing you need to have a separate profile(s) for each part. If you have only one profile, you can still select sequential, but you'll see that it defaults to continuous because the program doesn't have any info about the order you want the parts printed.
So yes, you must go through the laborious task of creating multiple processes. The easiest way to do it is to do MODEL A first, then group the processes together (CRTL+G), then copy the part, then the process group. The purpose of using the group is that whatever variable you update in one process for the group, will update to all processes of the group IF that variable was the same for all the processes. Here's the video explaining it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbQfifnzL4Q

CAVEAT:
Unfortunately, the group editing process does not include the model selection. For example, say you have MODEL A, and MODEL A is printed using GROUP A (3 processes). All 3 of those processes in GROUP A will have MODEL A selected as the part they are supposed to be applied to. Now you copy GROUP A, and call it GROUP B. Of course, if you look at any of the processes in GROUP B, they will still reference MODEL A. In theory, according to the way groups should work, if you modify one of the processes in GROUP B to select MODEL B, all the other processes in GROUP B should be updated with that change. However, that does not happen. You have to manually edit every process to select MODEL B. So if you have 200 processes, you will need to update each one. Hopefully--one day--that oversight will be addressed.

Re: print items one at a time

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 10:13 am
by S3D-Chris
We have a great article covering Multi-Part/ Sequential Printing that should answer most of your questions - https://www.simplify3d.com/support/arti ... -printing/

Re: print items one at a time

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:20 pm
by PerpetualPrinter371
Simplify3D should be revised to make sequential printing SIMPLE, as its name implies. Currently, it is needlessly complex as opposed to some other slicers that make it as easy as checking a box. This is one of the glaring ways that Simplify3D lags behind the competition, including free software; another is its lack of tree supports.

Re: print items one at a time

Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:47 pm
by S3D-Jason
This is a really post, so it might have been better as a new topic, but there are new changes in V5 that were specifically to help make sequential printing easier. If you have 10 parts you want to print sequentially, we now have a wizard to configure everything automatically. Just import all of the models and then go to Tools > Variable Settings Wizard, and select that you want different processes for each model. It will create all 10 processes automatically and assign them to each model. You can then drag and reorder the processes as needed if you want to change the sequential printing order. It's a lot easier now than it was in V4!