Custom settings for a postprocessing script

[BarraVox 0]

Hi

 

I want to create a postprocessing script but I want to control an aspect of it with a setting. Can I add a custom setting in Cura to control a variable in a postprocessing script? How?

[ahoeben 1,850]

A postprocessing script can define settings, but those settings are set in the Post processing plugin dialog.

 

A plugin can define a setting that lives in the print settings floater/sidebar. The postprocessing dialog itself is a plugin, but the postprocessing plugin only allows you to create settings inside the post processing plugin dialog.

 

If you really want to create a new setting, outside the postprocessing dialog, you are going to have to create a plugin instead of a postprocessing script. The Z-Offset plugin is an example of a plugin that defines a custom setting AND postprocesses the gcode in much the same way as a postprocessing script would do. You can find its source here:

https://github.com/fieldOfView/Cura-ZOffsetPlugin

 

[BarraVox 0]

Thanks.

 

I guess the postprocessing diaglog will be OK, is there manual for how to add settings to that diaglog?

[ahoeben 1,850]

No, there is no manual, but there are examples:

https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/tree/main/plugins/PostProcessingPlugin/scripts