Hello everyone!


Today I'm introducing a brand new tool we're working on: Plater


This software is actually a plate builder and generator, it can be used to create printing plates quickly, and optimizing the place took by the parts on the plate.

You can give it a few STL files, with quantities and orientation, and some settings like your plate dimension and part spacing. It will then try to place your part and optimize so that it generates the least plates as possible, and output the plates in STL format.

You can also release the plater.conf file, a tiny text file that lists which stl should be printed for your design and the quantity of each, so the end users will be able to generate their own plates with their own settings.

It is open-source, and it uses somes parts of CuraEngine, you can find the sources here:
https://github.com/RobotsWar/Plater

We also released binaries which can be found in the official README of the repo, don't hesitate to leave feedbacks