<teepee>
as far as I understand the developer got some sort of grant for developing the app - like for half a year or so...
<teepee>
lots of activity
<teepee>
it is at least supposed to focus on self-hosting and maybe fediverse integration
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<teepee>
but it's a huge effort for such a general application
<teepee>
I would assume a more focused "maintain only my own models on a raspi" could reduce the efforts quite a bit and also reduce the issues on security side
<JTode_I>
Hey all, new guy, running nightly, not completely inept with code, curious about how much effort it would take to get a rendered object from OpenSCAD sliced and over to Mainsail. I've never run Octoprint but I'm guessing it has a slicer plugin or something?
<JTode_I>
Haven
<JTode_I>
't started investigating if there are slicers with APIs or if I can hack the prusa-slicer command line sufficiently with a script yet.
<linext_>
i think prusa has shifted to advertising fusion 360
<teepee>
I have not checked for a while, earlier OctoPrint had the old curaengine plugin and OpenSCAD supports that via API
<teepee>
I have not looked if the slicer plugins still work
<JTode_I>
I noticed there's an "OctoKlipper" project now and I almost tried that out but other Klipper people told me to stick with Mainsail.
<teepee>
that's the linux distro?
<teepee>
I'm not much into klipper yet to know all those klipper related projects :)
<JTode_I>
It's the Octoprint you use with Klipperized printers - Klipper is an alternate firmware from Marlin, which is Octoprint's thing.
<teepee>
(old prusa-i3 still wating to get updated to klipper)
<JTode_I>
I didn't notice a huge difference in speed but I'm just using a cheap Anycubic i3 knockoff
<linext_>
i've been using a prusa mk4 every day for about 4 months
<JTode_I>
How do you like it? I'm planning to go CoreXY on my next one.
<teepee>
heh, me too, pretty much the same time too :)
<linext_>
it's almost perfect most of the time
<linext_>
once every few days something is a little off and needs to be fixed
<linext_>
i've gotten a few blue screens of death (fatal errors)
<teepee>
really? I have a couple of wishes, but very few problems
<JTode_I>
If they opensourced it that would probably get fixed quicker lol
<linext_>
it's partially open-sourced
<linext_>
if you want to void your motherboard warranty
<linext_>
only if
<JTode_I>
Or has he relented now? I don't pay close attention cause I can only afford knockoffs :>
<teepee>
I think it's still the hardware fuse you have to blow to allow unsigned updates
<linext_>
there's a youtube channel that tested mk4 vs bambu for about 3 months
<teepee>
I can live with that restriction
<linext_>
bambu had a lower failure rate for production quantity printing
<linext_>
personally i can't put trust into bambu
<linext_>
i'd have to block it from WAN
<teepee>
I have heard different things on mastodon, but that's obviously not representative
<JTode_I>
The enshittified internet is going to implode soon.
<linext_>
the mk4 was a major step up from my prusa i3 clones from 2015
<JTode_I>
Yah Mastodon is definitely a bubble that seems to be carefully tuned to my inclinations :>
<teepee>
oh, unfortunately I'm sure there's lots of room to go bigger with enshittification
<linext_>
the nntp text-only newsgroup protocol was the right way to go
<JTode_I>
Coworker on my last job had a RatRig that would be running in the background in our meetings and I got progressively more jealous by the week.
<teepee>
the bed and bed probing is really good, but I have no comparison other than 6 year old i3-v1 and even older ultimaker-v1 :)
<teepee>
linext_: did you enable the touch screen yet? :-)
<teepee>
like almost flawless 4 layer thin print > 20cm
<teepee>
linext_: according to a recent blog post all mk4 were shipped with touch screens, supported now added to the latest firmware
<linext_>
did they fix the lag?
<teepee>
what lag?
<linext_>
the interface lags a bit when i scroll through the file list
<teepee>
hmm, I never really use that
<teepee>
JTode_I: so mainsail includes all those slicers listed in the documentation?
<teepee>
ah, no, it's for sending generated g-code to mainsain
<teepee>
*mainsail
<JTode_I>
nono, it has no slicer, hence even though it has the octoprint api, sending it an STL is not useful. I am only okay with C/C++ but I would like to get better, so I might have a go at figuring out how to make one-click-from-OpenSCAD printing happen.
<JTode_I>
I imagine there's a slicer library out there...
<JTode_I>
Or if it does I can't find where you set them up, maybe I need to read the docs more lol
<teepee>
not that I know of, for parts of the topic yes, but it might be easier to use command line calls anyway
<teepee>
my workflow is 1) save STL from OpenSCAD 2) F5 in PrusaSlicer 3) Send-to-printer
<teepee>
cura has an auto-reload too
<teepee>
one option would be some sort of calling external tools from openscad, there's even a PR for a very limited version but that's not in a mergeable state
<teepee>
e.g. right now we have that 3D-Print (F8) button which can do 2 hard coded things
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<linext_>
i bet it could be turned into an AutoHotKey macro
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