I seem to have broken my sequential print. fix?

[nerys]

I have a bunch of parts to print with one sequential routine.

Each set of parts has different settings so different processes. easy enough. the last part is a vase mode print.

SO I need multiple continuous processes with a sequential end process.

Basically everything prints continuously except the TUBE which is printed separately (sequentially) at the end

BUT I can't have the other parts sequenced as there would be obvious collisions.

Normally this is very simple in S3D just GROUP the cont processes and leave the last part a separate process from the group.

S3D then does the group first as "one object" and then does the sequence to the vase tube. I know this works. I Have been using it for years and it worked 60 minutes ago and I did it with this very file last night. worked a treat

but now it "stopped" working for some reason. the CLAMPS appear to be a separate sequence for some reason. I even deleted and recreated their process. no joy. you can see this because the SKIRT is not unified. its 3 skirts instead of 2. This happened after I made an overhaul of the files and inserted them to re-slice. the CPM factory works fine but the new one CPM NEW does not work. ideas?

What did I do to break this? how do I fix it?

[S3D-Jason]

I don't think grouping the processes influences how sequential printing works. Grouping is just a convenient way to change the settings in multiple processes at once.

Usually, if you're having trouble getting something to print sequentially versus another part on the platform, that means the parts are too close together. If they get too close the software will require them to be printed at the same time to avoid a potential collision. So one thing to test could be trying to space the parts at more to see if that makes a difference.

[nerys]

Alas that is not the problem The actual sequential component is not the one giving me the problem One of the consecutive parts is giving me a problem

Even when I remove the one part that is being printed sequentially the problem is still there.

The one long curved bar with two holes in the ends for some reason is being printed separately even though it's not supposed to be the previous factory file works fine the new one does not.

I suspect the file is corrupt and I'm going to simply have to rebuild it from scratch which is really going to suck but I was hoping there was something I could do to fix it

You can see the overlapping skirt when that should be one unified skirt