V5 - Defining Custom Infill Angles - Missing feature?

[VividCreative]

V5 has moved a few things around and it seems also dropped a few features that where very useful

V5 seems to have dropped the ability to define multiple/consecutive infill angles - both for internal and external infills

V4 Screen shot

V5 Screenshot

However, the feature seems to still be honored by the V5.
If open a previous factory file created in V4, and then slice it in V5, the defined infill angles are kept in the resulting slice. But, if I make a change to the the angle setting in V5, the previously defines setting are lost

Team Simplify3D - Is it possible to bring this feature back, or was this simply an inadvertent omission?

[S3D-Jason]

Can you explain a bit more about what you're trying to do? You can still rotate the infill pattern in V5 using the rotation angle input that you circled.

[VividCreative]

Sure – sometime with some of the parts that we manufacture we need to define the actual angles of the external infill pattern. We do this for a couple of reasons. Sometimes it's for a specific look, as we need the bottom most layer to align a certain direction and the top layer to align a different. Since we can not define top/bottom layer angles in S3D, this was an easy way around that.

In other instances, we use the ability to define a series of angels in a specific order to generate strength and rigidity in solid parts. For instance, the screenshot I included above was a way for us to introducing additional strength and rigidity part printed in PETG that was only 8 layers thick. Since PETG is generally more flexible filament the sequence of layers help us create a part that was more rigid in one direction while being stronger in the other.

IN this case a specific sequence of angles was able to achieve the result we needed

[S3D-Jason]

As a potential workaround for now, you could use the Variable Settings Wizard to create different processes for the bottom 5 layers, middle, and top 5 layers. Then you can use the new "Aligned" infill pattern in V5 and define the exact angle that you want to use. This way you could align the angles of all 5 bottom layers to perfect match the part, and so on.

[studiokite]

yes I also use this. generally i reduce the amount of material needed by using alternating infill 0deg and 90deg and dont print on each layer.

I then also use the 0 and 45 for the external infill settings. It is a bit strange that this feature was removed.

[studiokite]

I Just noticed using an old factory file the infill settings are carried over but not the support.

I find alternating the support angle makes it stronger and better to build on.

[KarlW1000]

Custom angles also work well with round parts. The images show how the infill is more even with V4 than V5 by using angles 45, -45, 0, 90. In V5 it is just 0 and 90 so even if they are rotated they are still 90 degrees apart and leaves the round part with less rigidity.

[studiokite]

any updates s3d?

[myprinter]

I need to know too.

[scobob]

Same here