KISSlicer 1.5 release candidates 1 and 2

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KISSlicer 1.5 release candidates 1 and 2

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Hi, all!

This has been a long time coming, but I think version 1.5 is ready (enough) for a release! There are now 1.5rc1 builds up in the Dropbox folder for Windows, with Linux coming very soon, and Mac to follow in a day or so.

Direct link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3evahzu5gfel ... _rc_1?dl=0


Please let me know of any bugs you find (things like crashes, controls that refuse to work, an ugly GUI...OK, maybe not that). I know there are a bunch of features and user-interface issues still floating around...this release is to get a solid platform out there for regular users to adopt so they aren't stuck with the very-out-of-date version that's currently on the website.

My plan is to let you advanced users play with it for a while, and if nothing major is found within about a week then I will officially release KISSlicer 1.5!

Thank you all for your testing, comments, and of course helping other users! You are a wonderful group!

thanks,
Jonathan
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Re: KISSlicer 1.5 release candidate 1

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Thank you! I am stoked to see you have made progress. I'm gonna try it ASAP.
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Re: KISSlicer 1.5 release candidate 1

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Thanks!

Well, squashed a bug already (some tooltips wouldn't translate). It's fixed for the release, but I'm not going to upload a new set of RC builds yet.

Anybody else find any issues?

thanks,
Jonathan
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Re: KISSlicer 1.5 release candidate 1

Post by MorganTH »

Hello and thanks a lot for this final 1.5 version !
I don't see any problem with this new version right now. Can you told me what change between 1.5 3.10 and 1.5 rc 1 ?
If I ll see a bug or somethink like this, i ll report it .
Have a nice day.
Morgan.
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Re: KISSlicer 1.5 release candidate 1

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Oops, sorry, I did forget the changelog.

From 1.5 beta 3.10 to the new 1.5 rc 1:
  • Setting panel is now resumed to the last state (open or closed from when KISSlicer was last closed)
  • Disallowed negative inset (would break multi-material builds, needs more work)
  • Fixed a 1 Hz hitch that happened occasionally
  • Added extruder colors to the extruder map window (not the colors of the material in each extruder)
  • Sped up G-code saving a tiny bit
  • Added warnings when there is no G-code for same extruder warm / cool
  • Fixed a bug where the XY travel speed was not settable
Things I fixed since rc 1, but are not available for testing:
  • Fixed some widgets and tooltips that were not translated
  • Fixed updating a setting's value while a user is editing it
thanks,
Jonathan
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Re: KISSlicer 1.5 release candidate 1

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When I change printers the Material Name in the Matl tab turns red. Not sure if it creates an issue or not.
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New Material Tab After Changing Printer
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When I click on the new Material Name in the Ext Map tab the Material Name goes to the normal black color.
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Re: KISSlicer 1.5 release candidate 1

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Something weird going on with the transition from shell to infill.
It sometimes transitions to infill a layer too early in random places, making irregular islands of infill among the solid shell.

Here are my .ini files:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/170 ... BigBox.zip

Here are the STLs:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/170 ... 0Inner.STL
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/170 ... 0Outer.STL

Here's what the plate looks like:

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Note the patch of premature infill on the right of the right part (Side Panel Lock - Outer.STL).
The part is completely symmetrical around the vertical axis.
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Re: KISSlicer 1.5 release candidate 1

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Another issue.

1.5 RC1 keeps causing silent errors. Paste from event viewer:

Faulting application name: KISSlicer64.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x574c7790
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.3.9600.18233, time stamp: 0x56bb4ebb
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000001c0f2
Faulting process id: 0x90
Faulting application start time: 0x01d1c65a169d62b8
Faulting application path: E:\3D Print\KISSlicer - BigBox\KISSlicer64.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 544ac0fb-324d-11e6-82e2-fed002ce248b
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
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Re: KISSlicer 1.5 release candidate 1

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Aww, man, I was just getting ready to push out a RC 2!

On the early transition, I think that is a numerical issue when the slice Z sits right on a top (or bottom) surface. (KISSlicer scans the model right in the middle of each slice, so if a slice is from 0 mm up to 0.2 mm, the geometry scan happens at 0.1 mm.) If you try modifying the layer thickness just a tiny bit (like 0.25001, instead of 0.25), does the problem disappear? If so, this a processor precision issue, and I can't do all that much about it (or rather, anything I do about it shifts the problem but doesn't really fix it).

Regarding the crashing, does this happen when you use "Reload from Files(s)" right-click menu option? Or any other specific feature? Can you find a simple set of steps that will let me duplicate the problem?

thanks,
Jonathan
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Re: KISSlicer 1.5 release candidate 1

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Mac version

I posted about what might be a CPU performance issue in "bug reporting" here viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1315

also when in the Style tab, when I click in Layer Height, I get repeating characters. eg. if it has 0.5 and i click in the field, it will fill with 0.0055 or something like that. its very hard to trick it into allowing me to type 0.4 because everytime i start typing it auto-types.
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