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Can anyone tell me, or point me to a link that explains, the set of available hooks?
Does anyone have an advice on how a plug-in like this should be implemented?
After reading the Tool plugin example at the link above, I imagine how this could be implemented as a Tool plugin, which receives events when the tools active, and then can work with the items in the Cura Scene.
Some things I can see that I will have to do:
- accept user input, (label content)
- possibly consider selection in the scene, so that a user can apply a specific label to a specific item in the scene
- replace macros with values at slice time
- add items to the scene that get sliced by the slicer
Advice for creating a labelling plugin for Cura
in UltiMaker Cura
Posted
I want to create a Cura plugin to enable a user to label a model.
The label would be text on the bed sitting next to the model.
The text might simply be text, or include macros, like:
"$speed"
That, at slice time, is replaced with slice settings, such as the print speed in this case.
I'm trying to figure out what hooks I can get into in Uranium (Cura code). I have read this page in the examples there:
https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/wiki/Plugin-Directory
Can anyone tell me, or point me to a link that explains, the set of available hooks?
Does anyone have an advice on how a plug-in like this should be implemented?
After reading the Tool plugin example at the link above, I imagine how this could be implemented as a Tool plugin, which receives events when the tools active, and then can work with the items in the Cura Scene.
Some things I can see that I will have to do:
- accept user input, (label content)
- possibly consider selection in the scene, so that a user can apply a specific label to a specific item in the scene
- replace macros with values at slice time
- add items to the scene that get sliced by the slicer
Any suggestions?
Will