Would it be possible to implement a repeat last job? It currently has to rebuild the whole job from scratch right now, even when doing exactly the same thing it just did. Depending on what the job is, it can take a LONG TIME, as it is now for me on something I have to make quite a number of.
Would be great to be able to just choose ‘do last job again’ and be on my way
I already have everything in an SVG positioned and ready to go, a jig cut to fit the bed exactly, and all of my blanks masked and ready to run. The only hold up is when a job finishes I have to hit print and it has to re-render the job again which takes like 5-10 minutes. If it could just use the previous data and go immediately it would save me having to wander around for that amount of time waiting for the button to start flashing.
Wow that is slow for a 2D operation CAM. I can slice 3D objects and upload them to OctoPrint much faster, and reprinting takes no time to start at all.
Can you tell if it is cloud processing time, or downloading the data that is the bottle neck?
I have a lot of bandwidth, so I think its cloud processing time. This isnt a simple print. There is a LOT going on. Most prints dont take this long, but this is a pretty intricate vector that has been copied multiple times, so its going to take a while. Would just be great if it only had to render the job once though, since its the same every time. Would save them the trouble on their end too. Thats a lot of power to be running
Yes. A 2D Laser Printer does this so a 3D one should too!
An alternate (or additional?) hopper item would be a Quantity Button… how many copies do you want to “print”? I’m assuming this would pause the GF and wait for a button push after material changed.