greenarrow/skeinforge — Issue #1: raft support feauture adds unnecessary loops
Author: subcomandante
Created: 2012-02-19 13:21:51+00:00
State: open

Hi!
When you activate raft with support it adds unnecessary, wasting time loops every layer containing a raft.
Printer head, every layer, trace the perimeter without extruding, after this it start extruding.

Example (extracted from actual file generated by skeinforge):
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G1 X104.649 Y56.46 Z5.6 F1200.0
G1 X104.649 Y58.34 Z5.6 F1200.0
G1 X95.351 Y58.06 Z5.6 F1200.0
G1 X95.351 Y56.46 Z5.6 F1200.0
G1 X91.667 Y46.477 Z5.6 F18000.0
G1 F3600.0
G1 E1.0
G1 F18000.0
M101
G1 X91.667 Y53.523 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.1515
G1 X93.333 Y53.243 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.0363
G1 X93.333 Y46.477 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.1454
G1 X95.0 Y46.477 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.0358
G1 X95.0 Y53.523 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.1515
G1 X96.667 Y53.243 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.0363
G1 X96.667 Y46.477 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.1454
G1 X98.333 Y46.477 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.0358
G1 X98.333 Y53.523 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.1515
G1 X100.0 Y53.243 Z5.6 F2400.0 E0.0363
.....

Please let me know if you need more info on this.