Slice time calculation

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• Example

Properties

If not set otherwise, Netfabb calculates with a mark speed and jump speed of 100 m/s. These parameters are not available as properties for the slice time calculation object, only as properties of the slice object itself.

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Example

This example is also available as <Netfabb installation folder>Examples\Lua\SliceCommanderScript6_TimeCalculationAndVisualization.lua.

dialog = nil;
dialog_image = nil;
graphdrawer = nil;

LINE_NONE              = 0;
LINE_SMOOTH            = 1;
LINE_EXACT             = 2;

NODE_NONE              = 0;
NODE_CIRCLE            = 1;
NODE_QUAD              = 2;
NODE_DIAMOND           = 3;

MODIFY_NO              = 0;
MODIFY_ON_DEFAULT      = 1;
MODIFY_ON_SHIFT        = 2;
MODIFY_ON_CTRL         = 4;
MODIFY_ON_SHIFT_CTRL   = 8;

function CalculateTiming()
    -- create draw object
    graphdrawer = system:creategraphdrawer();
    graphdrawer.title = 'Slice Timing';
    graphdrawer.caption_x = 'Layer';
    graphdrawer.caption_y = 'Duration';
    graphdrawer.unit_x = '#';
    graphdrawer.unit_y = 's';
    graphdrawer.formatter_x = '#\%.f';
    graphdrawer.formatter_y = '\%.1f s';
    graphdrawer.grid_space_x = 100;
    graphdrawer.grid_space_y = 20;
    graphdrawer.font_size = system.fontsize;
    graphdrawer.margin = 60;
    graphdrawer.margin_right = 80;
    graphdrawer.margin_bottom = 130;
    graphdrawer.padding = 25;
    graphdrawer.border = 2;
    graphdrawer.grid = 1;
    graphdrawer.color_background = 0xFFFFFF;
    graphdrawer.modify_x = MODIFY_ON_DEFAULT + MODIFY_ON_SHIFT_CTRL;
    graphdrawer.modify_y = MODIFY_ON_CTRL + MODIFY_ON_SHIFT_CTRL;

    dataset_total = graphdrawer:adddataset();
    dataset_total.legend = 'Total';
    dataset_total.line_type = LINE_EXACT;
    dataset_total.node_type = NODE_NONE;
    dataset_total.line_size = 3;
    dataset_total.color_line = 0x888888;

    local calculator = slicetray:createtimecalculation();
    local dataset_lasers = {}
    for i=0, slicetray.layercount-1 do
        calculator:setlayer(i);
        local total = 0;
        local laser = 1;
        repeat
            local dataset_marktime = dataset_lasers[laser*2 + 0]
            if dataset_marktime == nil then
                dataset_marktime = graphdrawer:adddataset();
                dataset_marktime.legend = 'Mark Time ' .. laser;
                dataset_marktime.line_type = LINE_EXACT;
                dataset_marktime.node_type = NODE_NONE;
                dataset_marktime.line_size = 3;
                dataset_marktime.color_line = 0x880000 + 0x202020 * laser;
                dataset_lasers[laser*2 + 0] = dataset_marktime;
            end;
            dataset_marktime:addvalue(i, calculator.marktime);

            local dataset_jumptime = dataset_lasers[laser*2 + 1]
            if dataset_jumptime == nil then
                dataset_jumptime = graphdrawer:adddataset();
                dataset_jumptime.legend = 'Jump Time ' .. laser;
                dataset_jumptime.line_type = LINE_EXACT;
                dataset_jumptime.node_type = NODE_NONE;
                dataset_jumptime.line_size = 3;
                dataset_jumptime.color_line = 0x008800 + 0x202020 * laser;
                dataset_lasers[laser*2 + 1] = dataset_jumptime;
            end;
            dataset_jumptime:addvalue(i, calculator.jumptime);
            total = math.max(total, calculator.totaltime);
            laser = laser + 1;
        until(not calculator:nextlaser())
        dataset_total:addvalue(i, total);
    end;
end;

function DoDraw ()
    -- render into generic image object
    local graph_image = graphdrawer:draw(dialog_image.width, dialog_image.height);

    -- save to disk
    -- graph_image:saveto('D:/Temp/SliceTimingPlot.png');

    -- show result in dialog
    dialog_image:setimage(graph_image);
end;

function DoCancel ()
    system:log('close');
    dialog:close (false);
end;

function ShowDialog ()
    dialog = application:createdialog ();
    dialog.caption = "Slice Timing"
    dialog.width = 700;
    dialog.translatecaption = false;

    dialog_image = dialog:addimage();
    dialog_image.width = 695;
    dialog_image.height = 500;

    button = dialog:addbutton ();
    button.caption = "Close";
    button.translate = false;
    button.onclick = "DoCancel";

    CalculateTiming();
    DoDraw();
    dialog_image:setmousehandler(graphdrawer);
    if dialog:show () then
        return true;
    end;
    return false;
end;

system:setloggingtooglwindow(true);
ShowDialog ()