3D GCode Viewer integrated with DWC

Eumldeuml

@sindarius I understand! Sounds very practical for your purposes

TLAS

Great implementation, well done.

Gave me a though I might start another thread in - why not incorporate a slicer in at this point? You’ve got the 3D viewer, and on a pi, you could fairly easily run a slic3r program in the background from the server.

Thoughts?

JimPBarber

That is too awesome! Yes, Yes, Yes.....

Sindarius

I have a branch set up here for anyone interested in playing with this.

https://github.com/Sindarius/DuetWebControl/tree/3DViewer

and you can download a test version from here

https://juan-rosario.com/DuetWebControl.zip

I brought this up to date with the new master.

JoergS5

This is really great, please keep going!

Sindarius

I've been playing around with the code a little bit while I wait for a plugin system to be put in place. Recently added the ability to change the bed size and have the release on GitHub for anyone who wants to play with this. I use it fairly often at this point.

https://github.com/Sindarius/DuetWebControl/releases

Sindarius

Forgot to mention that I am looking at adding a toggle to move the layer height slider based off the current print height this weekend hopefully.

Exerqtor

Awesome! This is getting installed right after the ongoing print is done for sure!

Hope it get's integrated to the master asap!

AS-3D Druck

This is awesome
Is this Client or DWC based?

Sindarius

@AS-3D-Druck this is DWC based. Opens a new browser window to launch the 3D viewer but no special installation beyond the branch I have with it integrated.

AS-3D Druck

@Sindarius Ok, what i tryed to say is does it get calculated by a Script on the Client or Duet Side?

Sindarius

@AS-3D-Druck it’s javascript based so it is client side. The viewer downloads the file and renders it.

AS-3D Druck

@Sindarius Cool so it can be used even during a print Job right?
(without negative effecting the print Job)

Sindarius

@AS-3D-Druck I use it while printing all the time. Only one Duet based printer at the moment the file download doesn’t impact the print from what I have seen.

Exerqtor

Have you tried it with DWC 2.0.4 btw? I see that it's still realeased based on 2.0.0 ?

Sindarius

@Exerqtor I’ll look into updating the baseline with the latest. My changes on the DWC itself are very minimal. Just what is necessary to make the 3D Viewer link in the gcode list

Sindarius

@Exerqtor I have a release that is now updated to 2.0.4
https://github.com/Sindarius/DuetWebControl/releases

Exerqtor

@Sindarius

Yeah i got the notification from Github earlier!

Just installed it, and it works but the extruder colors don't apply to the renders for some reason. There static gray (just tried with single extruder slices so far) no matter what i change the colors to.

Sindarius

@Exerqtor This could be one of two things.

After you change the extruder colors are you hitting the "Reload Scene" button?
In the menu under stats if it switches from Mesh Rendering to Line Rendering the model is probably too large so it switches to line render mode which does not show the colors very well. This is something I plan to revisit to see if I can make the line colors a little more pronounced.

Edit

There is a 3rd possibility that I need to double check. It's possible that there is no T# call anywhere in the gcode for single extruder prints which may be throwing off what extruder it should be using.

Edit 2
It was the 3rd possibility. If there is no tool selected or M567 it will default to Extruder 0 in the next build.

Exerqtor

@Sindarius

Yeah i've tried to "Reload Scene" a couple times, also closing the 3D viewer and opening it again.

It's on Mesh Rendering to with T# defined in the gcode several places.