Very nice, but often minimum overhang is not the only constraint. Sometimes you want to take (directional) strength into account. And sometimes it simply looks better if an object is sliced in a certain way.
Because when I care about strength and printability I do so from beginning and base the whole design around it. There is no need for a tool to pick print orientation for me because I know before the first CAD extrude how it's going to be printed.
It claims to be BSP, but it’s 1 inch (1.1?) with 19 threads per inch (18?), which matches no standard I’ve ever found.
If this is a critical or load bearing part, I'd skip 3D printing entirely and get it machined.
Most consumer printers I’ve come across have differing XY and Z axis spatial resolutions
I’ve been wanting a decent algorithm to determine the optimal angle to print models such that the result is aesthetically as high fidelity as possible
Take for example a rigid model crane set to a non orthogonal angle. Is it pleasing to print with respect to one vertical column or the other? What if they are not equally sized? What about which is most likely to be viewed up close?
Generalising that problem to more organic shapes is incomprehensible but I can’t even answer the aforementioned toy example
I’m sure there are dozens of excellent potential approaches but I can’t easily find it for arbitrary XY and Z (or other combinations thereof) spatial resolutions
With lithophones it's typically recommended to print upright so the image is formed by stacking layers, as that allows for "pixels" to be thinner. Hueforge instead is typically printed flat because color stacking/blending needs more resolution than the shapes.