Step B00.8 — Review every plate in PrusaSlicer, together¶
Step 2 of 9 with a helper · Batch B00 — Calibration & jigs
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Do:
- Open each of the 27 committed 3MFs, B00 through B11, in PrusaSlicer 2.9.6.
- Slice it, scrub the layer slider, and compare time and grams to the plate board.
- Tick it off, then open the next plate.
Check
All 27 plates ticked on the checklist. Flat face, no supports, correct spacing and accent colour. Any re-saved plate rebuilt and check_docs.py green.
Helper Drives the layer slider on each plate and reads the time and grams aloud for the tally.
What you're looking at
Appended id, out of numeric order — same precedent as Step 10.80. It sits here, before any plate prints, because it is a once-through review of the whole run, not a step inside B00's own plate. Do it before B00-P1 starts.
The 3MFs are slicer/plates/<id>.3mf — the 22 ASA plates of B00–B10, then B11's 5 PETG V0 bay-ducting
plates. The generated plate review checklist has one
box per plate, with the batch, material, sheet and the plate board's time and grams already filled in,
so nothing here gets hand-typed.
What to look at on each plate:
- A flat face sits on the sheet, and nothing overhangs the bed edge.
- No supports anywhere. The 2.9 print-stability warnings on drive frames, Stealthburner and Klicky parts are by design — see them and move on.
- Spacing looks even; nothing touching or crossing.
- The three accent plates (B02-P1–P3) are on the blue preset, everything else on black.
- B11's five plates are on the PETG V0 preset and the textured sheet, not the smooth one.
- B11-P4 and B11-P5 wait on kit-day measurements (Leviathan-to-PSU and SSR-to-WAGO gaps). Review them now for arrangement and settings anyway; reprint only if kit day changes a duct length.
If an arrangement needs changing:
- In PrusaSlicer, open the Arrange popup: 6 mm spacing, rotations on, Center, Accurate, then Arrange Current Bed. Save the 3MF. src
- Rebuild only the plates you touched:
python3 slicer/build_plates.py --from-3mf <plate id> [<plate id> ...]— name every re-saved plate. With no ids it re-slices all 27: safe, but slow. Never drop--from-3mf: that re-packs the plates and loses this arrangement. - Run
python3 slicer/check_docs.py. If grams moved, shift the spool ledger in print/README by hand.
Good stopping point · ~25 min since the last one
B00 through B03 reviewed and ticked, PrusaSlicer still open on B03-P1. If it asks to save on close, answer Don't Save unless you meant to re-arrange.
Good stopping point · ~20 min since the last one
B04 through B07 reviewed and ticked, PrusaSlicer open on B07-P2. Nothing re-sliced outside this session's re-saves yet.
Good stopping point · ~35 min since the last one
B08 through B10 reviewed and ticked, the longest run of the four sessions. PrusaSlicer open on B10-P1.
Good stopping point · ~20 min since the last one
B11's five PETG V0 plates reviewed and ticked; the plate-review checklist is closed. Checkpoint B00 waits for the gates; filament prep at B00.1 is next.
Source: PrusaSlicer KB — Auto-arrange tool · plate plans · plate board · print/README § Spool ledger · maintainer note: a passed B11 review is what clears B11's qc="pending" flag in slicer/plates.py