Suggestion -DWC temperature chart scaling
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It seems that the temperature chart scaling in DWC is determined by the value set using the maximum hot end temperature value (M143) in the configuration file. So with a hot end capable of printing at high temperatures, one would reasonably set M143 to a high value - perhaps 350 deg C or more. This means that when printing "normal" filaments at around 200 deg C, small fluctuations in temperature can be difficult to spot because the temperature chart is set to a scale of 0 - 350. Also bed and chamber temperatures have to fit on the same chart using the same scale, and these are always much lower in value, making it even more difficult to spot small temperature excursions with high chart scaling values. It would be nice if the chart would auto-scale to something sensible depending on the actual hot end temperature in use. Better still, multiple axis scales so that things like bed and chamber temperatures could be displayed using a finer scale. Failing that, a mechanism to manually set the chart scaling values would be nice to have.
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@deckingman
If it helps, the chart detail is somewhat also controlled by the actual panel size on the screen and screen resolution - this is so DWC can adapt to different screen sizes and formats. If you need an alternative BtnCmd allows you to add the DWC temp chart and set the size of it manually :
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This may help you to spot the fluctuations easier, even if the scale is still the same.
Hope this helps!
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@deckingman +1 It's been a long time pet peeve of me as well. For me the problem is two part. One, as you mentioned, the lack of (auto) scaling. And two, I include (and maybe on your machine too) the water temperature as well, which usually sits around 10°C and is practically useless.
I havent posted about this before because I don't have a good solution for the 2nd problem appart from maybe a logarithmic temperature axis.
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@nxt-1 said in Suggestion -DWC temperature chart scaling:
@deckingman +1 It's been a long time pet peeve of me as well. For me the problem is two part. One, as you mentioned, the lack of (auto) scaling. And two, I include (and maybe on your machine too) the water temperature as well, which usually sits around 10°C and is practically useless.
I havent posted about this before because I don't have a good solution for the 2nd problem appart from maybe a logarithmic temperature axis.
I was just clicking through the DWC wishlist to see what, if anything, had been implemented or at least acknowledged (not much by the looks of it) and came across this which is quite an old post. Ref the second problem, I wouldn't have thought it was beyond the wit of man to display two or more "Y" axis with different scale factors on the same (auto-scaling) graph. So for example the hot end could be scaled to say 0-250, the bed at say 0-80, and the liquid coolant at say 0-20. Each of the scale values would be displayed using the same colour as the temperature plot.
