nanoDLP

I would like to request a new support type...It works similar to bridge support but I would like to use created support using a cone/sphere and body
but be able to specify two points (maybe more would be nice) the first point is the same as how a typical non bridge support works and specifies
the location of the penetration point on the model...the second would specify where the body will bend at a 90 degree angle
so that the body will then be drawn to the build plate...additional points bend would on occasion be helpful getting tricky places
I think...however I haven't run into that myself yet....I notice some automated support generators create this type of structure.

There are several other ways I can think to do this but this seemed like the simplest within the current support system.

My basic desire here is to have supports that can stand out away from the model so as to avoid intersecting the model.

EDIT:  I have found I can do some of this using a BASIC support and some bridge supports but it seems to require some special
cases on the model like it have overhead parts near the offset area that needs support..and bridge supports have to be somewhat
uniform so a cone shaped detachment is not possible if a heavier support is needed maybe due to the angle require...I still
think my original idea would be helpful and easier to use in more situations.

I have been doing a lot of variations to find a resin profile that will work with a current project that required both fine gaps and heavy lines.

I would now like to to see a way to lock a plate or at least a resin profile so that without explicitly unlocking first it can't be modified.

This might obviously be in the resin profiles list however ideally I think it would be nice to lock all the details of a plate.
Once I get the details sorted out I would like to lock the plate and the profile together so that nothing about it can be changed
without explicitly performing some two step confirmation type process.

My use case here is after I do a lot of work to get a plate just so, that will print successfully and look good I want to lock it down
so that I can't accidentally change some detail (like the resin profile or some other printer detail) that might prevent it from
printing exactly the same way next time.

Okay not sure this is a new idea but it just popped into my head as I was trying to tune in a new resin.

I will call it MicroSlicing (ms) and it is named after the idea that a stepper can do MicroSteps which are kinda make believe steps between real steps...

What I propose is Micro Slices which are slices that are in theory 'thinner' than the specified slices...maybe this is akin to continuous printing but here is how I think it might work.

Say you choose a step size for Z like 100 nm

Then the slicer not only generates the usual images that are 100nm apart but it also analyses each image and generates say 10 intermediate images between each main image.
The images are displayed sequentially spread out over the cure time of the layer.
I do not expect the stepper to actually move for each image (may or may not even be possible depending on the HW) but what the slicer does is find large continuous areas
on the main image and maybe the next main image...it then removes some these large areas in the intermediate generated images..this is akin to how the auto calibration
plate works in nanoDLP.  The goal, as I think you can, see is to reduce total cure time for large areas while smaller areas get the normal cure time.

My thinking here, and possibly I have this backward, is that large exposed areas get alot of light into an area which can result in bleeding or over exposure of areas
that are supposed to remain unexposed in that plate.  in particular a problem when you have two larger areas separated by a smaller unexposed area.
Also small exposed areas like one or two pixels might need the full exposure time just to cure enough to stick well to the previous layer and not break apart.

What I find is that I am often walking a line where I want more exposure time to keep my prints from pulling
apart and be sure my small details get put down but I also find that large details that are close together need less exposure or I start to loose the open areas
between them.  Think like small holes in a generally filled in area...the holes either get closed up from over exposure or the print pulls apart in some area due to under exposure.

Ideally the slicer could figure out that a large exposed area containing small unexposed areas might need a little less UV than other areas that maybe have the opposite ratio of exposed to unexposed.

Well there is my big thought for the day...

Thanks for all the hard work that goes into nanoDLP

Darren

I had this happen the other day....something crashed or got stuck due to bad gCode....the lamp just stayed on for hours...not good.

anyway I propose a separate thread that will deactivate the lamp if not touched by the main process for some reasonable max period...or maybe the cure time is
on a separate thread that even if the parsing or gcode fails or something hangs it can reset the serial connection (if needed for RAMPS systems) and shut off the lamp.

I am going to look at my firmware and see if there is a way to do this there but having it both places seem like it could still be good.

I would like to see a couple info lines on a plate after it has been printed:

would be nice if it showed LAST PRINT TIME  and TIME REQUIRED FOR PRINT

This would just be helpful when comparing print tweaks and also when selecting a previously printed model to reprint...knowing how long it will take
helps decide the order of multi part print jobs.

This has come up a few times for me.  I like to be able stop the slicing process so I can tweak it and re-run.  Sometimes I notice I have selected the wrong resin profile is similar issue.  A simple stop slicing button on the plate screen would suffice.

I was thinking whenever changing an existing plate to a new resin profile with a different thickness it might be nice to just invalidate old slice data or even auto reslice...

However I can imagine there might be issues there so my feature request would be an indicator on the Plate screen that tells what thickness that last
plate was sliced at....maybe this is not needed if NanoDLP already makes sure to interpolate slice thickness of the current profile and the images it
created for the last profile but I don't think it does and I can't see that as being the best way to handle a thickness change.  Nor do I think the slicing
should be invalidated if you just change profiles except maybe if the thickness changes...but maybe a warning that the current profile and the
sliced images do not align?  I have never really seen what happens here as I just always reslice before printing...but still I can see it happening
where I change a profile and forget to reslice.