Add material used to Cura

Nils · August 3, 2021, 6:33am

Hi,

I spend some thoughts of enhancing a still available filament manager to better support Cura, as I am printing with the nice OctoPrint integration of @fieldOfView and like to avoid logging in everytime to the OctoPrint GUI to for example to select the filament used.

So a question to @fieldOfView : I did not find a function to add material used to the GCode, material GUID only. Checked a list created by you and also did some search. So perhaps you can add it to the OctoPrint plugin to add material name and color to the GCode file send to OctoPrint.

Cheers,
Nils

fieldOfView · August 3, 2021, 6:53am

Please open an issue at Issues · fieldOfView/Cura-OctoPrintPlugin · GitHub, or I will likely loose track of this request. Also the more information you can add about what my plugin would have to do, the better.

Nils · August 3, 2021, 10:01am

Done. Added a Cura request also but it is more related to OctoPrint. Without it could be used to check for which material the GCode was created so also helpful...

OllisGit · September 22, 2021, 2:54pm

Linked the GitHub-Issue:

github.com/fieldOfView/Cura-OctoPrintPlugin

Add material used to Gcode for Filament Manager Plugins in OctoPrint

opened 09:54AM - 03 Aug 21 UTC

NilsRo

enhancement

I like to use a Filament Manager Plugin in OctoPrint to get warned if a spool co…ntains not enough filament to finish the print. The actual filament manager could not automatically detect the material used so it has to be selected in the Webfrontend manually. As I am using materials in Cura it would be very helpful if Cura can add the filament used in the GCode file. But according this list http://files.fieldofview.com/cura/Replacement_Patterns.html the material name is not included. Material GUID cannot be used as it is the same for every custom material. This is also discussed many times for Cura itself but I did not find any discussion to add this for feeding a Filament Manager in OctoPrint. So it goes from a more or less statistical information to a useful information to manage your filament. GCode has to store the filament used (included important information like color,...). I will also add a feature request for Cura itself, but it is more useful combined with OctoPrint Filament Manager. Cure Issue: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues/10223

Nils · January 2, 2022, 11:20am

@fieldOfView : Updated my PlugIn that custom metadata can be made visible in OctoPrint. Can be used for other PlugIns as well... thanks for the enhancement....