Slic3r: [Request] Show the estimated time and money before exporting

[Liger0]

Version

1.3.1 -dev

Operating system type + version

Windows 10 x64

Feature request

It is pretty much simple. As of now the slicer only shows the amount of money, material and time after exporting to g-code. Since I mosty use that function to see how much I can play around with perimeters, infill and other settings to lower the cost and time, not needing to export every time may be good.

[lordofhyphens]

The action that calculates the statistics is the gcode export.

[Liger0]

The action that calculates the statistics is the gcode export.

I see it actually is so, but it is really tricky in my opinion. In cura, for example, you don't need to export to gcode to see those statistics.

[lordofhyphens]

Probably because Cura does all of the export work when you tell it to slice and then just writes the buffer out.

[lordofhyphens]

I will certainly look at a pull request to change this behavior, but making the change myself is very low on my priority list.