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The V5.1 new features has nearly copnvinced me to split for V5. If you had added Arachne perimeters option you would have had my check. I employ a lot of raised text in my functional models and Prusa w/ Arachne produces crisp, readable small text far better than S3D. I am so much more comfortable with the S3D process interface than the other guys but function is king. Please, please add Arachne (equivalent) functionality.

I know that S3D already has dynamic extrusion width where it can adjust the width of the extrusions to perfectly fill small thin walls like the raised text that you mentioned. There's quite a few settings that control the behavior on the Advanced tab, so you can usually get what you want by adjusting those parameters. Some of the behavior is disabled by default, so you need to explicitly enable it before you will see the effect.

There's a link talking more about it below in case that helps:
https://www.simplify3d.com/resources/ar ... -features/

fffolly wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 8:13 pmIf you had added Arachne perimeters option

You have this in 4.1.2 already and it works rather good, even better than cura and slic3r (and slic3r forks like prusa slicer, super slicer..). That is one of the few functionalities S3D had waaaaaaaaaay before FOSS slicers and it was debugged and made to work great through 4.x versions so in 4.1.2 it is already better than in current arachne slicer feature you can see in cura and slic3r. I have not tried it yet in 5.x (as since latest 5.1 s3d was missing some crucial features like monotonic top layer that I really need) but I doubt they messed it up since 4.1.2

Thanks. Perimeters I knew about but had somehow missed the gap fill effect - improves results immensely especially on top and bottom surfaces. Adds a bit of time but for my purposes appearance usually trumps the extra few minutes.