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Get some kind of 3d cube or some thing so the user can quickly select straight view for each axis. Click of Top, Bottom, Left etc.
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I mentioned in a previous post, the left button should be use for selection. Pan, Tilt rotation etc function should be moved to the right mouse button or some unique keyboard/mouse combinations. Having to remember to hold the shift key to select multiple items is annoying and contrary to all other software I have used.
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Selection, typically dragging the mouse to the left and down will select only items contained wholly in the window. Dragging the mouse from the right to the left will select anything which is contained or crosses the selection window
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Add or subtract items from a selection set. After selecting some objects hold the CTRL or shift key will allow adding or subtracting objects from the selected object group.
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Object Alignment tools. When printing a bunch of parts it would be nice to select a group then have the software align edges (right or left), center both in both the X and Y directions
I would throw my vote in on this too. But sadly, one must remember that Bambu Studio is hardly an original work, it was forked from Prusa Slicer which itself was forked from Slic3r.
The things you are asking for are very CAD-like constructs which were honed over years by professional developers who collected a pay check to meet a product spec. If they didn’t get it right, their companies were out-competed and they were looking for work elsewhere. For good or bad, that’s just how capitalism works. I for one would love to see these items you suggest implemented and what’s more, I have to ask the question, “What were they thinking” when they implemented some of these constructs such as two file and save and drop-downs, not obeying the industry standard Ctrl-Click for multiple selections, the use of the middle mouse button in an appropriate manner consistent with other 3D viewing standards.
As someone who has a software background, and having been one of the first adopters of Linux Slackware 1.0 back in 1990, I’ve always been torn by the open source community. On one hand, they produce such marvelous original ideas such as VLC viewer, GIMP, Linux, Slic3er just to name a few.
But then there is the down side. That’s the part of my fellow software geeks I hate. Those are the folks who if someone does it one way, they will try to over-think it and die on the hill of “My idea is better than yours” - Are you guys at Technical University of Kaiserslautern listening? Just because an idea is new, doesn’t mean it’s innovative.
A great example of this is the use of CTRL-Click, or the Windows Context menu that in itself was copied from MAC OS which was a ripoff from XEROX. But in the world of Slicer software, I’m afraid, we have too many Linux antiestablishment geeks who would have us believe we are luddites for not seeing the technical elegance of their way for constructing user interfaces. Let’s be candid, the QWERTY keyboard as an example has been proven to be a typists abomination, it is said to have been invented to slow typing in the early mechanical typewriter days so the hammers wouldn’t collide. So why haven’t we changed to the more efficient DVORAK keyboard? Because we all know and were trained on QWERTY.
The one saving grace that has emerged from the competition between slicer programs is that these very software geeks are in a race to out-innovate each other. This is a rare occasion where it is working. GIMP as an example is an opposite case. It is supposed to be photoshop but what it really is, is Anti-Photoshop. If Photoshop did it one way, GIMP developers did it the complete opposite way often with 10x the steps. The same can be said for FreeCAD and OpenOffice. All of these are well-done applications that soil the sheets at the last moment of execution by needlessly modifying the user interface just to be different.
Definitely need alignment tools, #5. Add on some edge measurement tools as well and I think it would be close to perfect.
I would just like one single change - the viewport should rotate around the currently selected object and not the center of the build plate. It should only rotate around the center of the build plate if no objects are selected…
Allow for alternative orbit and panning navigation. Fusion 360 and Lychee slicer navigation are similar. Bambu Studio is counter intuitive.