Normally I trust my slicers on the nit level details of the slicing, so I do not tend to walk through every layer before a print (maybe I should), but recently I noticed a strange/problematic behavior. I have always used the drop to bed feature after importing a model, in the past and typically it will drop the model onto the plate from above and let it settle as gravity would have it (if it's above the mat, or askew slightly it will fall flat). When working on my own design though, I noticed the slicer was making a strange out of place line on the exterior wall. A vertical path was there, and it did not need to be. Example 1 below shows a normal 90 degree line as expected. Example 2 highlights something new in this layer (the previous layer did not have it) which is a strange ~83 degree line appearing out of nowhere in a space that nothing in my model should be causing it.
To devs, I assume this is not the desired behavior of the drop to bed function? If not, would love to see a fix in the next version
That does at least explain it though. while I agree that you might not always want a full surface flat on the plate, I do often simply want it "on the ground", and gravity is a pretty efficient way of doing that without having to select any specific element (hence my assumption) I must have been REALLY lucky at hand-orienting askew models. Well, that and the micro-off-leveling does not make all prints fail, they just manifest strange methods to the end result. After experimenting more most models come out fine, but if you do a layer by layer inspection you will see strange internal or surface aberrations. In my example above there was no way to tell it wasn't flat on the table to the naked eye, it took quite a lot of zooming in to finally see it, but that little bit yielded a really poor final layer and the build time was quite a bit longer.