Object Position Menu Gone 1.0.4
Help! Just loaded 1.0.4 and not seeing a menu to manually enter and display object coordinates. Hopefully there is an option to enable coordinate entry. Old GUI with full object coordinates and rotation was just fine. Why take a step backwards and change it? Please don't tell me it is gone.... Is there a Classic View?
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0.95>>object placement, clicking on each object in the Name/Mesh/Collision Table, displays fully editable table of Translation/Scale/Rotation. So this is example of host software that supports this capability. Repetier was just more advanced than other host software.
Currently, I put down a 150mm wide piece of Kapton and paint it with ABS juice and then just step to a new free spot for each print -seems like a mechanism for entering object coordinates is needed.
Other reason is sometimes you can just barely fit an object on a piece of Kapton, but most print beds do not have a grid for accurate positioning. In this case, put down the Kapton as parallel as possible, and then move the hot end to edge of the Kapton, record the position, and adjust the object origin position accordingly. I find it very difficult to position two pieces of Kapton side by side without leaving a seam.
General comment is the look and feel of the old GUI was was much more functional. In the new GUI I have to click to enter the rotation mode. Old GUI the editable info was just displayed; why add an extra level of abstraction? why is the new GUI not a step backwards? were users requesting to hide the object info and to make it non-editable? this is not a cell phone app. sorry for the rant....
btw all the hard work is appreciated.....thanks.
Please consider adding a GUI Translate button, between the rotate object and cut buttons. Code already exists in 0.95 to real time update XYZ position in dialog boxes as objects are moved with mouse. We would also have the option of typing in a location. Not as elegant or informative as 0.95, but at least we're not removing functionality.
Also consider an enhancement from 0.95 that would allow display/positioning of a group of objects. 1.0.5 and 0.95 do allow dragging a selected group of objects with the mouse, but it would be very helpful to allow the "new" Translate button to be active when a group of objects is selected. The actual displayed XYZ number doesn't matter as long as the metric is consistent. Could be position of first object selected or min XYZ or centroid. Usage model for this is I have a ratty piece of 150mm Kapton on my bed. I keep reusing it by adding ABS juice until there are too many holes, and then move to a new location. I know the size of my print, so I'd like to apply an offset. - Standard mode of operation.
It would be really neat if heated bed suppliers put a ruled 10mm grid on the graphics instead of the moronic message that the bed may be hot. If that became common place, we'd want to see the same kind of numbered ruling on the bed grid in Repetier.
Please tell me that there is a revision coming out very soon with this ability again.