Release Notes
Printer Software Release Notes

v1.19

11min
overview hello thank you so much for your support and engagement with our teams your feedback helps drive our development process and makes our products better one important thing to note is that we expect this release to take longer than usual, around 30 minutes this release, you’ll notice these new features and fixes hole repair automatically detect and repair holes in stls additional dynamic part labels part locations filenames traveler printable (2d) views of your platforms supports continue editing support structures after you’ve spun a part initial optimizations for mpu 100 you’ll also see that you can download carbon files, stls, and see the slice video or traveler for your print (like you’ve had for projects) in print actions menu we can’t wait to hear from you about this release keep printing great parts and sharing your feedback we appreciate it, and it makes our products better if you have any questions, please contact the carbon service team at support\@carbon3d com mailto\ support\@carbon3d com or kirby at kirby\@carbon3d com mailto\ kirby\@carbon3d com improvements hole repair when you upload an stl, we now check for holes in the stl if we find any holes, we’ll show you how many we found if it’s clear how to repair them, we’ll automatically repair them it’s unlikely but possible that an stl could have enough problems that we won’t repair the holes we find; we will still report the number of holes we found for these types of files, we recommend repairing in external software before loading if you ever want to undo the repairs, you can revert the changes from the part settings dialog for files with very large meshes (or if you know that your uploaded file has no errors), you can always cancel the file analysis additional dynamic part labels we’ve added new types of dynamic data that you can add to your part labels; you can now include part names, your company name, or a part number (based on the part’s location on the platform) new tokens are {part name} which will display the name of each part (the stl name) {customer name} which will display your company’s name {part pos} which will show a unique number for each part on the platform, ordered by the part’s position on the platform, which is also the same number as you’ll see on the parts in the traveler you can also include portions of each token for example, for the stl named abc part name stl to include the first 3 digits of the part name, your token should be {part name\[ 3]} you’ll see abc on your part to exclude the file extension, your token should be {part name\[ 4]} you’ll see abc part name on your part and, you can exclude and include, to show the last 3 digits of a part name before the file extension, your token should be {part name\[ 7 4]} you’ll see ame on your part if you need to remember how to add or remove portions of your tokens, just click on the help icon next to add part label as a reminder, you can set defaults for part labels in preferences traveler we’ve seen, in talking to you about your workflows, that some labs and factories print out a paper ‘traveler’ to use in tracking the progress of your jobs we’ve now made it easy to do this from the carbon app from your project or print, you can open a new tab with a printable view of your platform from the project or print menu if you’ve estimated your print stats, your traveler will include the estimated resin amount for your project or print edit supports after you've spun them we’ve also removed the error you used to see when you tried to edit support structures after a part is rotated in z initial optimizations for mpu 100 we’ve updated supports (both placement and support structure parameters) to consider our new material, mpu 100 we’d love to hear about the parts you’re printing and opportunities to further optimize them a few fixes print actions we’ve added a new menu for your prints, like you have on projects this will let you download the stl, carbon file, and slices also, you can view the slice video or traveler for your print