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Sometimes a print has infill then an incomplete top layer. IE the top layer is only on a portion of the model.

problem comes when the top layer "ends" in one of the holes in the infill the filement can "fall in"

a solution is to add more infill but that is such a waste of both time and plastic.

how do I get (or can it be added) to ADD a bridge when this happens it is easier to describe in video form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEES-4SybLA

I am also very interested in this feature being added. I've had a number of prints where this is a problem already, I was going to take a picture, but the linked video is an excellent example of exactly the problem I've seen.

This is the same as reported in another thread.....in Trouble shooting and Bug Reports section I think......

this is a problem they really need to fix. the ONLY solutions are as follows.

insane infill levels (utter waste of plastic and time) and oddly enough the increased TIME being a bigger deal to me than the infill plastic wastage (although that changes with more expensive infill)

the only other solution as per simplify will work but its a royal PITA

you have to create a seperate process on the layer this happens. so lets say it happens at 18.2mm up you would set the first process to print from 0 to 18.2mm and the second process to start at 18.2 and goto whatever (next problem layer or end of model)

this will cause simplify to make that entire layer "solid" instead of making it a partial solid layer the rest infill.

I think you can imagine what a royal pain in the you know what that would be.

its a simple fix at least on paper (no idea how hard it would be in software)

if a partial layers ENDS IN MID AIR then either make that layer solid OR EXTEND the reach of that layer so every "line" drawn ends over "something" from the previous layer (IE the next infill hexagon line)

so its not dropping the end of a filament line in mid air.