Looking forward to reading this and keeping up on this thread. Also is there a good place to learn Slic3r better, or is there a better slicer out there that I could learn? I find that the quality of the printed stuff I am printing is ok, but would like to improve it, and want to get better in understanding what I am doing. Right now I am printing things I am getting from other places, and will be really soon taking things I have created in AutoCAD and pulling them into the printer to print. I have just picked up Solidworks, but have not installed it yet, nor started learning it. Looking forward to understanding this all better before I go out and start the large process of building a 2' x 3' printer.