Liking Heeks - any better one-stop packages?

Hi - nooby here so my appologies for the possibly dumb questions.
I loaded up HeeksCad on Friday night and after a couple of hours I'm turning out some very nice models but I still have to then load them into another program to slice them for the Reprap and I'm wondering if there is a single program that will handle the design, slicing and uploading without using multiple packages.
For slicing I have tried Skeinforge - which is slow but does give a good graphic output of the layers etc - and Slic3r - which is quick but has no visual output.
From there I assume I will need some sort of uploader but as I haven't yet obtained all the parts for the Prusa I am building it will have to wait for another month.
So my question is - is there an all-in-one package or any way to avoid the three package process?

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Wired1 Wrote:
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> So my question is - is there an all-in-one package
> or any way to avoid the three package process?

Unfortunately not. You can get packages that combine the host software - which controls and uploads to the printer - and the slicing program, but do not include the design program.

Take a look at Pronterface and Repetier host. Both of these integrate slicing programs, including Skeinforge and Slic3r. Repetier host has a nice gcode visualizer too.

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Yes Repetier looks like the thing thank you. Like the detail in the gcode visualiser, when I get the Pruusa built it will be interesting to see how the finished product compares.

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