Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Render graphics, layer by layer, as a simulation? #6

Open
shakthimaan opened this issue Sep 6, 2015 · 1 comment
Open

Render graphics, layer by layer, as a simulation? #6

shakthimaan opened this issue Sep 6, 2015 · 1 comment

Comments

@shakthimaan
Copy link

Would it be possible to show the rendering of the graphics, layer by layer, as a simulation?

Some kind of "play" or "delay" option to see how the printing progresses for a given set of gcodes.

@kamathln
Copy link

I have been planning and had just begun to write a complete simulator in python for gcode simulations (had to pause as I got too much other work).
My plan was to write a simulator code by code not just layer by layer. (for layer by layer, I use Cura, as it already provides that)

I strongly vote on this issue, if you plan to give gcode by gcode visualization (like in sfact) along with layer by layer.
Several features that I wanted to implement:

  • display angle from previous code to next code,
  • display length(distance) of next gcode
  • step control (like in any debugger, but also reverse)

My plans were also to come up with a structured comment specification to describe various gcodes. Cura already enumerates layers. My idea was to include whether something is a raft, brim, support, infill, etc.. so that it can be shown in a different color or rendering to differenciate them. Also show overhang angles , etc.

You are welcome to steal these ideas. ;)

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

3 participants