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Re-add Copy/Paste of Instance Groups #6570

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morganvenable opened this issue Aug 26, 2024 · 8 comments
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Re-add Copy/Paste of Instance Groups #6570

morganvenable opened this issue Aug 26, 2024 · 8 comments
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Is there an existing issue for this feature request?

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Is your feature request related to a problem?

#6237 re-adds instancing support -- amazing!

But Copy/Paste of an Instance group today with 6237 only pastes the single master part, not the instance group

Prusaslicer's underlying behavior allows copy/pasting of instance groups to create a new instance group with a new master -- for people who print large numbers of parts with small variations, this is extremely useful to quickly reproduce identical arrays with different parts.

Which printers will be beneficial to this feature?

All

Describe the solution you'd like

When copy/pasting instances of an object, all instances should be pasted.
A new master should be created for the pasted instances, as in Prusaslicer.

Describe alternatives you've considered

An option to paste instances linked to the ORIGINAL master would also be very useful for making complicated plates, but probably requires more work.

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@morganvenable morganvenable added the enhancement New feature or request label Aug 26, 2024
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@vovodroid if you have any suggestions for where I should start poking on this, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

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Hi, can you please upload screenshots with desired functionality in Prusa? As I see if copy-paste instance group you get new object.

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morganvenable commented Sep 12, 2024 via email

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Here's how it appears when I copy/paste two instance parts in Prusa -- they get offset diagonally from the original two, instead of going in the same place.
In general these behaviors seem more consistent in Prusa -- when I Clone now on this dev version, Orca now puts all N copies in the exact same location instead of tiling them out. I wonder if that's related to putting the Instance code back in?

Okay yeah confirmed, in Bambu, the Clone function tiles correctly, but in Orca it doesn't do it:
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Bambu, the Clone function tiles correctly,

But there are no instances in Bambu? Do you copy-paste group of objects?

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morganvenable commented Sep 12, 2024 via email

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Orca bot: this issue is stale because it has been open for 90 days with no activity.

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