Platform preview alignment issues

[roller]

I have a few printers but unfortunately one of them is a Makerbot. Stupidly, when switching between a Makerbot config and any other printer config that I have Simplify3D relocates the position of the bed. This means all the parts laid out are no longer centred on the bed ... in fact end up not on the bed at all. This is really annoying because it means I have to move everything. See the attached images to see what I mean. Why not have the beds centred around the same centre point when changing configs?

Print laid out happily on Makerbot bed (with stupid simulation of the Makerbot bed)

Print no longer laid out in print region when other printer selected - now the build platform has moved significantly AND I am still stuck with the stupid preview of the Makerbot frame ... why have this annoyance?

[JoeJ]

Go to View > Coordinate Axes to make sure that the XYZ indicator is showing up. I'm guessing that one of your printers has the XYZ origin in the center of the build platform and the other has the XYZ origin in the front left corner. That means that if you position an object at (0,0,0) and then switch between the two printers, the object will move from the center of the Makerbot bed to the corner of the bed on the other printers. No way to avoid that if they use different coordinate system locations.

MakerBot printers usually have the XYZ origin located in the center of the bed. Pretty much all other printers usually have it in the corner.

For your question about disabling the gray makerbot printer frame, you just need to add the following two lines to your FFF profile (go to File > Export FFF Profile, then open the .fff file in a text editor)

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<overridePrinterModels>1</overridePrinterModels>
<printerModelsOverride></printerModelsOverride>

When you are done, save the file, and then go to File > Import FFF Profile to reload the changes. All of the v3.0 S3D profiles I have used have these options setup correctly, but if you made this profile yourself or it's from an older version, then you need to add these options yourself. If you want more info, read this: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2356