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SoftFever c168d0c8db Stop estimating a prime tower for a single used filament (#15760)
# Description

A plate using one filament no longer reserves or draws a prime tower in
the plater just because multiple filament slots are configured. The
shared footprint estimate gated "no tower" on the purge volume being
zero, but on non-Bambu printers with the shipped defaults that volume
comes from the SEMM flush matrix, which reads every configured slot and
stays nonzero even when only one filament is used — so the preview
showed a tower the print could never contain. The estimate now decides
from the filament count alone, with wrapping detection and smooth
timelapse staying the only reasons a single-filament plate keeps a
tower, matching `Print::has_wipe_tower()`. The gate also moved above the
flush-volume scan so the lone-filament path no longer pays for it.

No change to slicing output — toolpath generation already omitted the
tower for a single used filament; this removes the phantom preview,
placement reservation, and validation footprint.

# Screenshots/Recordings/Graphs
Before the fix:


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c5b0ea61-127d-408e-bafe-f1f76c58b996

After the fix:


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ac6632b3-5d44-4013-aca3-73f6cfd1139c



## Tests

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Added a shipped-defaults single-filament case to
`tests/libslic3r/test_wipe_tower_estimate.cpp`: it estimates a 5.04
mm-deep tower before the fix and zero depth after. `[WipeTowerEstimate]`
and the fff_print `[WipeTower]` suites pass.

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OrcaSlicer tests

Building, running and writing tests is documented on the wiki, under How to Test.

Two files here rather than there, because coding agents only read what is in the repository:

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