So every time I use the auto-arrange tool it puts everything lined up nicely and nothing looks to be touching, except when I hit slice I get an error saying conflicts of gcode path have been found at layer 1 please separate the parts further. It doesn’t make any sense?
What options did you specify? Care to show a slice image?
Auto-Arrange isn’t perfect. I tend to use it as a starting point and choose my own locations and print order. Make sure all the items are ON the plate, etc.
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Another funny thing was just to see what would happened I right clicked and chose “fill bed with copies” and it got to about 24% then just stayed there for over an hour until I clicked to stop it trying.
Did you use auto arrange before or after you added the brim? If it was before, that is probably your problem.
Oh look there’s a spacing slider, well aren’t I an idiot 
Raft was selected before I even imported the STL and definitely before I auto-arranged. It doesn’t calculate the raft until you slice anyway though right? I had to increase spacing to 6.00 before it gave no error
That’s cool to know but I need a raft on this
When I apply a brim to objects. I noticed that the auto-arrange would space them farther apart, so they must take that into consideration with the calculations.
I sometimes start with auto-arrange but usually adjust the arrangement myself so that taller objects are in the same area so that when the short objects are finished, the print head doesn’t have to move too far to finish printing the taller objects. The auto-arrange doesn’t seem to take object height into account.
Well yeah it would have to space them further apart to fit the brim around them
Reason why you need a raft?
The use case is pretty rare with today’s auto bed leveling technology. This is probably why the Auto Arrange doesn’t factor it in. As you found, just use the slider to space the parts further apart with Auto Arrange.
Parts are very delicate and won’t get a nice enough bottom layer without a raft, plus it means I can use textured pei
Interesting, I’ve never found that a raft produced what I would call “nice bottom layer” To each their own.
Nice may have been wrong choice of word, more like consistent