For some strange reason, I can’t seem to get Slic3r to let me place an object anywhere but at the center of the print area. I’d like to move things closer to home, but when I grab the object on the platter, and drag it to the edge, it turns red and pops back to the center. I’m not going past the edge, in fact, any movement at all is just ignored. It always stays at center. Is that normal?
Slic3r’s plater always tries to keep the group of parts centered. You’ll have to mess with the “print center” setting or use something else to plate your objects (Repetier Host combines the plated objects into one STL and sends it to Slic3r along with centering information to keep the object where you put it) if you want to print off-center.
It always centers.
You can define where the center is in the printer settings tab I think it is.
I also have a 1x1x.3mm cube I use to force placement of a part. Drop 2 of these in opposite corners and you can place the main object anywhere after that. A skirt will go all the way around all 3 objects if you use skirting.
Argh… thanks guys. Um… is there a good alternative to Slic3r that /doesn’t/ do that? I’ve tried Cura, and wasn’t really impressed with what it did with support structures, but maybe you have a favorite?
For me, I centered on 50, 50 for my 200x200 bed to push objects off of a wear spot on my Y rods. Set it and save it and you are good.
@James_Newton as suggested - Repetier Host, just use is as a slic3r front end. Slic3r kinda blows in that it doesn’t allow you to rotate objects in 3D space either, so Repetier Host kinda solves that.
You could place your object in Cura and save the gcode and then load it in Repetier.
You can tell slicer that your print bed is smaller than it actually is, then save that as a configuration. Save a few of them if you are keen on keeping various sized parts as close to home as possible.