Hey Les, since you’re not busy at all over there and just twiddling your thumbs waiting on more requests lol , i think the print display feature could really use some improvements. I would really REALLY love to be able to put a picture of the display on the report, but i cant imagine that would be easy to do so in the meantime, maybe a few improvements could be made to the print display icon feature. My two main complaints are:
it just prints a wireframe display of the material and the toolpath. I would like to print the display exactly as is but maybe inverted colors to save some ink. like white background, light gray machine, red material, green toolpaths.
i cannot position the display on the page where i want to be printed. I would just run the job report back through the printer and position the job at the bottom of the page, but no matter what i do i can only move the print around a few centimeters and it is either centered on the page or at the top of the page. And adjusting the page setup margins does absolutely nothing on my end here.
I’ll have you know that I take my thumb twiddling very seriously.
I would really REALLY love to be able to put a picture of the display on the report, but i cant imagine that would be easy to do so in the meantime, maybe a few improvements could be made to the print display icon feature.
It’s a limitation of the way the HTML page is printed. Having said that, I haven’t checked if wxWidgets3 has better printing facilities.
it just prints a wireframe display of the material and the toolpath. I would like to print the display exactly as is but maybe inverted colors to save some ink. like white background, light gray machine, red material, green toolpaths.
I have no explanation for that. Basically I switch to an inverted color scheme then do a screen shot. In some cases you can see the screen flash when this happens. You should get exactly what you normally see on the screen.
i cannot position the display on the page where i want to be printed.
If I remember correctly I just tell the print system to print as big as possible.
I was able to print a wireframe as you mention David, but now mine prints as the screen shot, I’d prefer the wireframe to be honest >
I mean, the wireframe is fine, i would just prefer to be able to show the working area, the material, and the toolpaths. Right now it just unclearly shows the material and the cutpaths.
Les,
I’ll have you know that I take my thumb twiddling very seriously.
LMAO good! Because it is a very serious matter! Gosh that gave me a good laugh lol.
I have no explanation for that.
Lol how did i know that would just be my luck… something i am trying to do just cant be explained.
Basically I switch to an inverted color scheme then do a screen shot. In some cases you can see the screen flash when this happens. You should get exactly what you normally see on the screen.
The inversion is happening, just not the rest of it. At least not clearly enough to be legible anyways.
If I remember correctly I just tell the print system to print as big as possible.
That’s fine if it fits to the printable width, but not so fine as for vertical position on the sheet.
Hmm, stages 1 and 2 are as expected. Stage 3, not so much. Actually after doing some more testing, I can replicate the issue. I’ll see if I can figure out what is going on.
Its a little better centered, but it still looks the same. I wouldnt exactly call that correct though… Expecially since i need to be able to position it on the sheet and not just centered-ish.
Les, any chance you have gotten anywhere with this or putting a picture in the job report? I really cant tell you how wonderful that would be. *nudge nudge. lol
I need to completely redesign the job report to put pictures in the output and i’m afraid that job keeps getting put on the back burner.
wxWidgets recently added a SVG renderer so I may be able to generate an SVG based report. Another alternative would be to generate a pdf but I have absolutely no experience with PostScript.
Understandable. To be honest, I’m kind of surprised there’s not more people behind me pushing for some pictures in the reports. But I suppose the majority of users don’t even use the reports, they cut the jobs as they create them. I guess we just operate on a bit larger of a scale here haha. We typically have a stack of 10+ jobs each on 4 different machines at any given time, so the more details I can put in the reports, the better.
Does HTML not handle pictures well or is there no way to get the picture from sheetcam to the html report? I cant see what’s going on behind the scenes when a report is run, so I don’t know. I probably wouldn’t understand it anyways to be honest. I like to think I understand more than I do, lets face it, g-code, the post codes, and the html reports are probably about as rookie level as it gets.
, i think the print display feature could really use some improvements. I would really REALLY love to be able to put a picture of the display on the report, but i cant imagine that would be easy to do so in the meantime, maybe a few improvements could be made to the print display icon feature. My two main complaints are:
