Question about the printer play test, and an observation.

[grmonsey]

Hello Stefan,
I really like the printer play test setup you have added, my question is this.
I have multiple printers, P2S's, A1's and Ender3's ( don't use them much anymore). Eight in total, but the Ende3's and A1's will be going away once funds allow
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My P2S's are dialed in and the fit tolerances are tighter than the A1's. Is there a way to add multiple tolerances that can be toggled with a selection box depending on the printer used for that particular stl? Or even a different setup based on a printer chosen ( printerType1, printerType2 etc. )?
It may be difficult to add, and I don't want you add overhead, was just curious.

My observation is this, I was editing the fit play test piece, to better dial in my P2S's and I noticed that the sizes are rounded up to the nearest .xx when I edit the hole size.
Example: I was attempting to resize the test holes to .025, .03, .035 etc. but all the .xxx sizes got rounded up to .xx.
I normally hand set my clearances to .025 ( .0125 doubled ) for my P2S's and .1 ( .05 doubled ) for my A1,s and never noticed this rounding before playing with the test fit piece.
But it explains why some of my parts print looser than I expected.
Is this a normal behavior that I have not noticed?

[henmedia]

@grmonsey thanks, both good points.

Several printers: I've built it. Each printer you choose under Printer in the settings (Workplane) now keeps a play of its own: choose your P2S there and enter its play below, then choose the A1 and enter its play. New lids, dovetails, snap-fits, nuts, Check clearance and Split's connectors then start from the play of the printer the design is set to. A printer without a play of its own uses the play you set while no printer was chosen, so the value you have now stays in force until you give a printer its own. It comes with the next update.

The rounding is only in what the fields show: numbers show two decimals by default, but the value you type is kept exactly as typed, so 0.025 stays 0.025 for the body. To see the third decimal, open Workspace settings → Measurement → Accuracy and choose three decimals. So the rounding is not what made those parts looser. The printer play itself is kept to a thousandth of a millimetre, so 0.0125 per side becomes 0.013.

[henmedia]

@grmonsey a play for each printer is out in layerling 1.148.0.

[grmonsey]

Thank You, now I have a reason to have the printer name on the workplane.
As far as the rounding goes, I could have swore that I had already set that. But, evidently I hadn't.
I did put some calipers on some parts that wear loose, and the parts that get inserted where a hair small, making them loose but the main part was dead on.. So, I guess I need to do some more dialing in. But for now, it's close enough. :)