On 29.01.19 13:53, Parkinbot wrote:
Wouldn't this forum be the right place to announce such features
as well as all major changes to the OpenSCAD community? E.g. in a
new moderated sticky thread dedicated to log and discuss such news.
Let's not forget that one though :)
https://www.openscad.org/news.html
No screenshots in there but it does list the bigger things that
happened (except the printing stuff which did not even exist
at this time).
I guess this page was/is not updated often enough but it's
not a bad place for announcing things. This would not prevent
spawning off a related thread in the forum as soon as someone
wants to start a discussion or just comment on the news.
What surprised me most was the new 3D printing service support.
Now we have a button that lets us directly print designs with
our favorite webservice. I haven't tried it out, but to be
honest, I was always hoping to get a button to directly invoke
a slicer local on my machine after F6. It seems to me that this
can be achieved now by installing an own OctoPrint service in
the local network. Is there a wiki for this on the way?
I was thinking of adding some way of slicer invocation too but
I would have preferred a way of handing over a new model to
an already running slicer. That does not seem to be easily
possible at least with Slic3r and Cura as far as I can tell.
Cura has a "reload model" button though which does like 80% of
that already.
As for installing OctoPrint, I don't see why we would need
to cover the installation in the OpenSCAD documentation.
OctoPrint has it's own documentation for that which seems
quite extensive for all bigger platforms. The config screen
will get some detail explanation as soon as I find some time
for it (or someone else beats me to it).
ciao,
Torsten.
On 29.01.19 13:53, Parkinbot wrote:
> Wouldn't this forum be the right place to announce such features
> as well as all major changes to the OpenSCAD community? E.g. in a
> new moderated sticky thread dedicated to log and discuss such news.
Let's not forget that one though :)
https://www.openscad.org/news.html
No screenshots in there but it does list the bigger things that
happened (except the printing stuff which did not even exist
at this time).
I guess this page was/is not updated often enough but it's
not a bad place for announcing things. This would not prevent
spawning off a related thread in the forum as soon as someone
wants to start a discussion or just comment on the news.
> What surprised me most was the new 3D printing service support.
> Now we have a button that lets us directly print designs with
> our favorite webservice. I haven't tried it out, but to be
> honest, I was always hoping to get a button to directly invoke
> a slicer local on my machine after F6. It seems to me that this
> can be achieved now by installing an own OctoPrint service in
> the local network. Is there a wiki for this on the way?
I was thinking of adding some way of slicer invocation too but
I would have preferred a way of handing over a new model to
an already running slicer. That does not seem to be easily
possible at least with Slic3r and Cura as far as I can tell.
Cura has a "reload model" button though which does like 80% of
that already.
As for installing OctoPrint, I don't see why we would need
to cover the installation in the OpenSCAD documentation.
OctoPrint has it's own documentation for that which seems
quite extensive for all bigger platforms. The config screen
will get some detail explanation as soon as I find some time
for it (or someone else beats me to it).
ciao,
Torsten.
