MatterControl 1.1 and Image Convertor Released

[Batteau62]

Looks like development is moving along. I purchased the image converter. It seems to work as promised (early adopters get it for $15, it will be $25)
Haven't tried "Matterslice" yet, that's on the to do list.
http://www.3dprinterworld.com/article/m ... r-released
http://www.mattercontrol.com/#jumpMatte ... lDownloads

[Flateric]

Matterslice seems pretty good so far.

Quick, nice path choices.

Doing a test print right now.

[Batteau62]

Matterslice seems pretty good so far.

Quick, nice path choices.

Doing a test print right now.

How did your print come out?

[geneb]

Can someone please "wring-out" Matterslice for me? I'd like to know if it's good enough to replace Slic3r as the "default" tool for new builders to the Rostock MAX.

tnx.

g.

[heathenx]

I've only just begun to play with the new MatterControl using the MatterSlice engine. So far I was able to run a single wall calibration box. I got the wall thickness spot on to .35mm which is the size of my nozzle. Next up was a 20mm solid calibration cube. WOW! Side walls and and top surface look great. However, the cube is a bit undersized so I have to play with that but so far so good. I really like this version.

I like the new interface too. These guys make some lovely improvements. I have a 4 hour print job (using KISSlicer) cooking at the moment but once it finishes I'll play with MatterControl some more.

[heathenx]

...well, scratch that! I had a hiccup with KISSlicer leaving strings all over my part. I used MatterControl instead. I don't have MatterControl fully configured yet but what the hell. I went for it. I'll have the result in about 3 hours.

[geneb]

What size did the cube come out at?

Were all three sizes under, or just the width and length?

g.

[heathenx]

I think it measured 19.78mm square and 9.89mm high on a 20mm x 20mm x 10mm cube.

[geneb]

That might be just a matter of tweaking the filament diameter....

g.

[Captain Starfish]

Ran a couple of parts through it yesterday.

So far, impressed. The changes they've made have been positive and removed a few annoyances from before. The MatterSlicer seems to hit a fair balance between few enough settings to keep it sane vs enough tweak to get basic stuff out. And they now allow a choice of Cura, Slic3r and MatterSlicer from within the program. There's also a neato spot for custom G-code at pause, cancel and restart as well as start/end job which is great for dealing with retraction and prime/wipe stuff.

I'd like to see the pan/orbit of the 3d view available in the layer/gcode viewer, and my jury is out as to whether their mechanism for preset management by exception is a boon or a curse. Having to navigate menus for individual settings is a royal pain compared to being able to see where things are in the normal layout. But being able to see what's different in a single list is awesome. Perhaps they could come up with a view for editing which showed "default" settings one way and modified another.

[Captain Starfish]

Other things that'd be nice:
- Ability to drag drop parts from the queue into the library
- when hitting the Add button within an item's view (to add more bits to the print) it'd be swell if the Mac version remembered and returned to the location I was last adding from.

[kevinepope]

Other things that'd be nice:
- Ability to drag drop parts from the queue into the library
- when hitting the Add button within an item's view (to add more bits to the print) it'd be swell if the Mac version remembered and returned to the location I was last adding from.

Added to the 'to do' list. Thanks for the feedback!

[Captain Starfish]

Awesome, Kevin, thank you.

I realised yesterday after adding a couple of non-default configs that the highlighted changes is something you already do, I'd just approached it arse about face.

Kudos, folks. It gets better the more I use it.

Repetier only gets a look in now when I want to see the G-code visualisation from a different angle.