PrintVault Desktop v0.2.26

Gcode you slice by hand gets picked up on its own, several slicers instead of one, and the app can tell you what changed.

Slice where you like, come back, it is there

Send a model to your slicer, slice it, save the gcode beside the model, and come back to PrintVault. It notices and indexes it, so the file is there with its settings read out and ready to send to a printer, without you remembering to rescan.

It only looks at the one folder you sent from, only when the window comes back to the front, and only once. If nothing turned up it says nothing.

This is deliberately not slicing from inside the app. I tried that first. OrcaSlicer's Windows build is a small launcher for a very large DLL, and handed command line arguments it starts its whole interface and exits without slicing. It also only writes errors to a console it inherits directly, so anything driving it cannot report why it failed. A Slice button would have failed silently exactly when you would use it, with the slicer already open. Watching for the output works with every slicer instead of one, and has nothing to go quietly wrong.

More than one slicer

Settings held a single slicer path, which is fine until you have Orca and Creality Print installed, or a different slicer per printer. It is a list now. Add as many as you like, rename them to whatever you call them, and Send offers a button for each. Your existing setting is carried over.

What changed, in the app

The version number in the header opens a short list of what is new, and the same list appears once by itself after an update. It is in the file rather than fetched, so it works offline like the rest of the app.

Fixed

• Slicer names were taken from the whole file path rather than the file name on Windows, because the path helper only splits on forward slashes and a file picker returns backslashes.