I currently mainly print using materials like TPU/TPE and several other soft filaments. Unfortunately these materials can cause strings in several scenarios. One in specific is after tool change when the nozzle is approaching print temp and traveling to the prime tower to prepare the nozzle for printing. If you are using a soft material you most likely will refrain from using retraction which can cause a critical failure due to jamming or kinking. After priming your nozzle at the tower you then travel to your print object. THIS. This is the exact moment the quality of your print is at risk. Typically I use the “Print infill first” setting combined with the setting “Order of walls” using the preset “Inner/Outer”. This is ESSENTIAL for hiding the sins of soft materials which can cause stringing. This allows me to work from the inside out, ensuring that my initial extrusion point is deeper into the print object which if approached at print temp has already produced a “tail” or “string”. Here is where this Feature request shines. I would like to propose a feature which aims to increase the quality of the external and internal perimeter walls by adding a suite of travel parameters which allow users to intercept that initial travel point and place it farther into the print relative to either the objects bounding box or outermost line type feature *possibly even a set of coordinates. If this is used in combination with my line type ordering users can expect a greatly improved surface quality on TPU/TPE type filaments. Here is a concept image of what this travel would look like. Below it is a suggested set of parameters for this feature.
