New Features: Raytracing and Rendering of preview images for stl and g-code

Comments

• LordFly

  April 2015

  That looks awesome!  It would definitely be better than the current method.  I often find myself picking a certain angle to view that part at so that the "glare" is just right to see the details.  This would be WAY better!
• yOOrek

  October 2015

  It would be nice to be able to configure the color on per gcode file basis. I upload and keep gcode files of the same print object multiple times (for different filaments). At the moment they all are rendered in the same color. It would be nice to have render color reflect the color of the filament.
• RepetierSupport

  October 2015

  You can set the color int Global Settings -> Preview Images. If you change this before uploading the G-Code, the new color will be used.
• yOOrek

  October 2015

  Thanks, I will give it a try. :-)
• MartinD

  July 2023

  For multicolor print I request to have option to set color of each nozzle per folder, something like INI file, lets say
  nozzle1={FF,00,00}
  nozzle2={00,FF,00}
  or another option eg - pick it up from the comment in gcode/3mf usually have these colors set
  Issue is lot of us (i believe) have new multicolor printers, and some prints required particular colors to be in different positions.
  So - the renderer will render the images in these colors + add a new part to image where will be shown which nozzle requires which color.  (eg square with color and number of nozzle in center)
• Repetier

  July 2023

  Per folder is bad idea ince you can move them around and that changes no color.
  
  However you can change colors already if you add at start a matching server command to define color:
  

  @extruderColor <extrId> #RRGGBB

  Forces the G-Code renderer to use the given color for extruder ID (extrID). Extruder ID starts with 0 for extruder 1. Example: @extruderColor 0 #ff0000

  So if you can configure gcode per filament you could add the color server command there so sliced gcode has color you want instead of default color per extruder. Use ;@extruderColor to make it compatible gcode for slicer and eventually sd card printing.
• MartinD

  July 2023

  Repetier said:

  Per folder is bad idea ince you can move them around and that changes no color.
  
  However you can change colors already if you add at start a matching server command to define color:
  

  @extruderColor <extrId> #RRGGBB

  Forces the G-Code renderer to use the given color for extruder ID (extrID). Extruder ID starts with 0 for extruder 1. Example: @extruderColor 0 #ff0000

  So if you can configure gcode per filament you could add the color server command there so sliced gcode has color you want instead of default color per extruder. Use ;@extruderColor to make it compatible gcode for slicer and eventually sd card printing.

  Can you, please, elaborate how can I do it per folder or project? Or it is possible to do it only globally?
  What I understand if I want to do it, I need to include several lines to gcode (one per extruder like):
  ;@extruderColor 0 #FF0000
  ;@extruderColor 1 #FF11FF
  ;@extruderColor 2 #123456
  ;@extruderColor 3 #aabbcc
  ;@extruderColor 4 #00f000
  and repetitier server will take it into mind and render colored as desired?
  
  also, is it possible to implement the second function - to have a note in the rendered image, which extruder is set with which color? 
• Repetier

  July 2023

  It is not per folder, it is per gcode file. You must include it in the gcode the slicer creates. For that reason I suggested using filament selection to add it automatically.
  
  In a future release we will add a material manager where this will also be possible to add materials to gcode description so we can control befor ethe print if color matches.
  
  In Summary you can add notes to uploaded gcodes - what you write there is up to you.