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3Drasle wrote:Nothing worth mentioning.

Shouldn't a x.x.1 release be focused on fixes and stability? I had 3 major bugs with 3.1.0 that I probably emailed their support team about at least a dozen times. In particular the slow dense support structure stuff was a total deal breaker for me. The 3.1.1 update fixed all 3 of my issues with 3.1.0, so it's exactly what I would want from a x.x.1 release.

I'm sure they're going to include more big features and stuff with 3.2 or 4.0. I mean just go back and look at what they did with 3.0.

Also, I for one am quite happy they continue to support new printers. If they stopped doing that, it pretty much guarantees that I wouldn't be able to use the software 2-3 years from now. So I hope they keep doing that every release.

razster wrote:

3Drasle wrote:Nothing worth mentioning.

Shouldn't a x.x.1 release be focused on fixes and stability? I had 3 major bugs with 3.1.0 that I probably emailed their support team about at least a dozen times. In particular the slow dense support structure stuff was a total deal breaker for me. The 3.1.1 update fixed all 3 of my issues with 3.1.0, so it's exactly what I would want from a x.x.1 release.

I'm sure they're going to include more big features and stuff with 3.2 or 4.0. I mean just go back and look at what they did with 3.0.

Also, I for one am quite happy they continue to support new printers. If they stopped doing that, it pretty much guarantees that I wouldn't be able to use the software 2-3 years from now. So I hope they keep doing that every release.

Good points.

razster wrote:

3Drasle wrote:Nothing worth mentioning.

Shouldn't a x.x.1 release be focused on fixes and stability? I had 3 major bugs with 3.1.0 that I probably emailed their support team about at least a dozen times. In particular the slow dense support structure stuff was a total deal breaker for me. The 3.1.1 update fixed all 3 of my issues with 3.1.0, so it's exactly what I would want from a x.x.1 release.

I'm sure they're going to include more big features and stuff with 3.2 or 4.0. I mean just go back and look at what they did with 3.0.

Also, I for one am quite happy they continue to support new printers. If they stopped doing that, it pretty much guarantees that I wouldn't be able to use the software 2-3 years from now. So I hope they keep doing that every release.

And, still nothing worth mentioning.
Good for you that you are happy with the development of Simplify3D.

Doug, that's a sure way of putting bad ideas into there heads.

I for one have been waiting since early version 2 editions for them to simply fix the memory leaks when you parse models for printing. Here we are a few years later and still nobody has figured out how to run a profiler and find out why S3D takes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Gigs of memory until at some point my machine grinds to a halt and I realize I forgot to do the restart S3D thing on my regularly scheduled interval.

I keep seeing the post that says they're hiring. I guess it's because they don't have anyone there who knows how to find and fix memory issues.

Not to sound too harsh though. S3D is great and it's saved my so many hundreds of hours. I parse and print a lot of models and don't have time to wait around for other software to figure out how to slice the model every time.

FYI - I was curious and tested leaking on a large model using version 3.1.0. with iMac, El Capitan 10.11.6, 16G Ram

Attached are 6 data points (image attached):
1 - booted S3D without loading a model
2 - imported a large model (threads and memory use increased)
3 - no activity by me but threads and memory slightly changed
4 - prepare to print (threads and memory increased)
5 - Removed model (threads and memory reduced - not fully)
6 - All threads closed and memory recovered - not shown because it cleared from Activity monitor

To someone's point - been using s3d since early version of 2.0 - for me, it offers only a slight advantage over Repetier Host with slicer (in fact, only advantage is (was) for custom Supports but, even that's 'buggy'. I use the Stand-alone version of "Netfabb Free" for repairing (if s3d reports model problems)

Yeah, another super-awesome update! *makes fart noise with armpit*

I have now found that if I run any "repair" with this version that when I click prepare to print it crashes and closes. It does not do this in the last version.

On one of the new printer profiles there is a known issue with USB printing and a known fix yet they did not change this setting in the published profile. This is just ridiculous.
If you are creating a profile for a new printer and a problem is found then through testing a solution is found why would you not incorporate it into the new profile?

wirlybird wrote:I have now found that if I run any "repair" with this version that when I click prepare to print it crashes and closes. It does not do this in the last version.

I can't reproduce that. Do you have a factory file?

Please make a new topic to talk about this stuff. It's very confusing to have all of this in one thread.