Slicer Recycling Glyphs

Bambu Lab Software Feature Requests
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In the slicer at present it’s possible to add text to objects and it will wrap around surfaces. It works well.

Extend this by allowing custom gylphs or SVG to be easily added to a model, a common usage case would be recycling icons with the plastic type number…

Yes, I realise there are various ways this can be achieved already (e.g. in CAD modelling software), but being able to do this in the slicer would be perfect as you can attach the correct recycling icon at the time of print according to the filament selected.

The code to do this is already in the slicer (through the text tool) we just need a convenience function to stamp all our parts with a recycling icon, or any other glyphs/icons/SVG for any other purpose.

I did think a possible workaround would be to use the text tool plus unicode characters (such as for the recycling icons: ♳ ♹) but these don’t work in the slicer at present, instead you just get a “?” character

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This sounds like a great idea but if I can offer up a suggestion. If you can draft a mock-up of how this might work, you might find that the devs will have an easier time understanding the “ask”.

Also, don’t overlook posting this to the Orca Slicer devs Github because they are more apt to put any quality of life enhancements in their fork of Bambu Studio than Bambu would. We really haven’t seen many major enhancements out of the Bambu team in the last 12 months but the Orca team has been in overdrive and appears to be adding new quality of life enhancements every few months.

Here’s the link and make sure you click the “enhancement” button when you post.

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