Facility to recalculate layers for existing uploads

[nigeljh99]

Hi there,
Just started using your plugin but as with others I have a large number of gcode files already within octoprint. Most of which would be a great pain to recreate and reupload …
Would it be possible to have a button or maybe for the system to just rescan a file automatically if there is no layer detail within your plugin for the file .. Would make it a great deal more usable and would remove the informative yet not very useful error message!

[CmdrCody51]

Hi there,
Just started using your plugin but as with others I have a large number of gcode files already within octoprint. Most of which would be a great pain to recreate and reupload …
Would it be possible to have a button or maybe for the system to just rescan a file automatically if there is no layer detail within your plugin for the file .. Would make it a great deal more usable and would remove the informative yet not very useful error message!

I wrote a little script to do this. I put it up on GitHub https://github.com/CmdrCody51/3D-Scripts One option is to strip the M117 messages that DisplayLayerProgress puts in so it should reprocess the file with out getting messed up. But if there are no layer metadata in the file - then DLP still won't be able to parse it correctly. It uses the watched folder from OctoPrint to automate the loading. I do not know if it works with OctoPi. You'll probably have to chmod +x Reload.sh to get it to run.

[nigeljh99]

Thank you, I have run the script but still a little confused as to how it does what it needs to do ..
My understanding is ;
It strips out DLP stuff from original gcode and puts that file into the watched folder whereby it is reimported into octoprint and DLP then processes it again properly ..
Is that right ?

[CmdrCody51]

Thank you, I have run the script but still a little confused as to how it does what it needs to do ..
My understanding is ;
It strips out DLP stuff from original gcode and puts that file into the watched folder whereby it is reimported into octoprint and DLP then processes it again properly ..
Is that right ?

That's the theory. Problem being if DLP couldn't process it because of no layer markers - it will still not be able to process it.
And I'm having the dickens of a time to get it to handle spaces and special characters (I use those a lot).
You can compare the two files if you want. I noticed the DLP now does CR-LF...
I am also not sure how or when OctoPrint handles the metadata from deleted files.
Always learning....
Brett