TenKOhms wrote:The stratasys software doesn't export G-Code and is bundled with their printers, I believe. CraftWare is new, it sounds like dennisjm uses other slicers that have the "lay flat" feature, I don't know of very many slicers, so looking to see which ones he uses!
Makerbot Desktop and ReplicatorG have had this feature since I started using them.
Move has a button to put on the platform which brings a model down to touch the platform.
Rotate has a button to lay flat, which turns the model so that as much as possible of the bottom surface touches the platform.
The combination of the two saves me a LOT of time when someone gives me a custom STL file that I didn't design myself. When I design myself I know which face matches the print bed and I start designing with that in mind. Other models often don't do that and worse, they have some weird angled edge that actually would be the best one to print off of, but you have to manually figure out that it just happens to be 32.35.
Makes me use Makerbot instead of S3D now and then even though I paid the doh for S3D.