3D GCode Viewer integrated with DWC

Thalios

weird bug, it seems the bed rendered is too small. (see pic)

any idea?

same on safari and firefox. Mac os big sur.

Screen Shot 2020-11-15 at 2.20.46 PM.png

Sindarius

@Thalios I have not yet implemented reading the axis limit so the bed size is fixed @ 235,235 at the moment.

Thalios

I understand! I like it still!

Sindarius

@Thalios It's one of the next items on my list. I need to start refactoring some of the structure out into their own classes. Bed is one of my first ones. I plan to hopefully support bed texturing soon-ish and I have had requests to show a volume cube as well. So this will be a part of that. Glad you like

Sindarius

@Thalios Give 0.7.6 a shot. I have reworked a chunk of the bed logic so it should pick up the axes limits from the object model now.
https://github.com/Sindarius/DWC_GCodeViewer_Plugin/releases/tag/0.7.6

Also added build volume. It's a little odd for deltas but it you look top down it works well enough for now.

JoergS5

@Sindarius your print area would be useful for other kinematics like scara, polar ... also.

Thalios

works perfectly so far!

Sindarius

Implemented billboarded labels over each of the objects. Can be toggled on and off.

OwenD

Should this be working with RRF 3.2b3?
I got an error saying the plugin couldn't be installed because DWC version wasn't correct

Sindarius

@OwenD this depends on DWC 3.2 beta 3 which I do not believe is released at this point. You have to pull it down and build it then install it.

OwenD

@Sindarius
This is the bundle I used.

https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/19623/firmware-bundle-3-2beta3-now-available

Bugger,
Just noticed there's a DWC package further down the list.... I thought it was all in teh bundle.
Will try that tonight.

Thalios

Make sure you update the DWC to 3.2b3 as well or it won't work. Not just the firmware.

Exerqtor

Works like a charm!

One thing i would love is a Zoom-slider or a +/- somewhere on the "viewport" to zoom in on the build area. For instance, i'm using a old AF laptop and the touchpad driver is long before win10 si i cant use the "pinch or open gesture" to zoom or heck even scroll.

Other than that @chrishamm has some issues with the sorting on the release section of the git lol. I've installed an old version more than once just by downloading the top one lol.

Sindarius

@Exerqtor You can actually use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the camera.

arrow keys will rotate around
hold down control and you can pan
hold down alt and up and down will zoom in and out

I am looking at speeding up the camera movement with the keyboard when pan/zoom (it's a bit slow)

Edit:
Sped up the keyboard controls so you can avoid using the touchpad as much as possible.
https://github.com/Sindarius/DWC_GCodeViewer_Plugin/releases/tag/0.8.4

Exerqtor

@Sindarius
Oh there you go haha!

Sindarius

@Exerqtor I'll play with it a bit more and see if I can get numbers that work reasonably well for the camera movement. But for now it should be usable to, at the very least, get you close.

Thalios

little typo error.

In the main window, where it says Show object selection, it is written Show object Selction.

Sindarius

@Thalios sure enough, I’ll fix that in the morning.

@Sindarius said in 3D GCode Viewer integrated with DWC:

@Exerqtor You can actually use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the camera.

arrow keys will rotate around
hold down control and you can pan
hold down alt and up and down will zoom in and out

I am looking at speeding up the camera movement with the keyboard when pan/zoom (it's a bit slow)

Edit:
Sped up the keyboard controls so you can avoid using the touchpad as much as possible.
https://github.com/Sindarius/DWC_GCodeViewer_Plugin/releases/tag/0.8.4

Cool

Maybe you could even in one of the 4 corners show permanent this hint for navigation with keyboard with an 50% alpha-val or so:

Use mouse or for keyboard:
UP/RIGHT/DOWN/LEFT for move
CTRL & UP/RIGHT/DOWN/LEFT for move
ALT & UP/ALT & DOWN for zoom in/out

or something like this put anywhere in one of the boxes...

Great work!

Sindarius

@LB I'll probably look into putting Help/About button that will bring up a dialog. I'll make sure to include the keyboard control info in there. I have a couple things that I want to get to before I turn attention to that.