Sliced files previewed through a vendored copy of PrettyGCode in an
iframe. It drew each move as a screen-space line -- a line has no
thickness in the scene, so it cannot occlude the layer behind it, which
is why prints came out stringy and shimmered where layers crossed. Being
a separate app in a frame, it could be neither themed nor translated, and
carried its own machinery for detecting a proxy refusing the embed.
Now built on libvgcode, the renderer OrcaSlicer draws its own preview
with, vendored from three-slicer (AGPL, same as us). It takes the THREE
namespace as an argument and imports nothing, so it runs on our 0.181
rather than the 0.160 its package pins.
The parser is ours; upstream renders its own kernel's output and ships no
G-code parser at all. Two things it has to get right, both found by
checking a real plate rather than assuming:
- BambuStudio does not use the OrcaSlicer/PrusaSlicer annotations. It
writes "; FEATURE:", "; LINE_WIDTH:", "; CHANGE_LAYER" and
"; Z_HEIGHT:", not ";TYPE:", ";WIDTH:" and ";LAYER_CHANGE". Reading
only the latter showed a 52-layer print as 23,165 layers in one colour,
because with no layer marker recognised every travel Z-hop split a
layer and every segment took the fallback feature.
- It emits a tenth of its moves as G2/G3 arcs -- 706 extruding ones in a
single plate. Ignoring them punched holes through curved walls and tree
supports. Arcs with no X/Y are the helical travel lift and lay down
nothing, so they interpolate as travels.
Four colour modes: filament (default, from the AMS slots the file was
sliced with), feature, layer height, line width. Speed, fan and
temperature are deliberately absent -- upstream derives those from
settings rather than the toolpath, and guesses dressed as measurements
are worse than an honest omission. The parser now carries the data to do
them properly later.
Legend entries are switches. Hiding removes the records before the mesh
is built rather than recolouring them: the shader packs colour into a
single float with no alpha, so there is no transparent to set, and
removal is the useful behaviour anyway -- a hidden support stops
occluding what it covered.
The scene is built once and only the toolpath rebuilds. Doing otherwise
constructed a new WebGLRenderer on every render, because the buildVolume
default is an object literal and so a fresh identity each time; browsers
cap live WebGL contexts and drop the oldest, which blanked the canvas
after a few interactions.
utils/framing.ts goes with the iframe, along with six now-orphaned
strings in all 13 locales. src/lib/vendor is excluded from eslint --
acting on findings in vendored code makes it impossible to re-copy on the
next upstream release.
test_launcher_shutdown_config.py and test_systemd_backup_paths.py read
repo-root launcher/config files (Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml,
deploy/bambuddy.service, install/install.sh, installers/windows/...,
spoolbuddy/install/install.sh). The Docker test image built from
Dockerfile.test copies only backend/, pyproject.toml, gcode_viewer/ and
requirements, so all 15 tests failed in test_docker.sh with "launcher
moved or was removed" — the files simply aren't in the image.
Guard both modules with skipif on frontend/package.json, which is present
in every source checkout but never in the test image. Native runs
(test_backend.sh, every commit) still execute the tests in full and catch
a genuinely moved/deleted launcher; the release-gate Docker run skips them
instead of failing on files it deliberately doesn't ship.
Nightly backups to a mounted NAS share ran from May and then stopped, failing
with [Errno 30] Read-only file system. The reporter checked folder permissions
-- correctly: the mount is gid=backup,dir_mode=0775, the service user is in that
group, and his own shell writes to the share fine.
Errno 30 is EROFS. A permission problem is errno 13. EROFS means the filesystem
refused the write, and it refused because we told it to: our systemd unit ships
ProtectSystem=strict, which mounts everything read-only inside the service's
mount namespace and carves back out only ReadWritePaths=<install> <data> <logs>.
A NAS share is not one of those three. Reads are unaffected -- which is why the
UI happily listed his existing backups from the share while being unable to
write a new one -- and his shell is outside the namespace entirely, so every
check he could think to run said the directory was fine.
Both installers write the unit file wholesale, so a ReadWritePaths line added by
hand disappeared on the next install, taking the backups with it. They now back
the old unit up (.bak-<timestamp>) and carry the operator's extra writable paths
forward, reporting which ones they kept. The unit template documents the
carve-out.
The output directory is probed with a real write when it is saved and when the
backup card loads, so an unwritable path is caught there rather than at 03:00
for a week. On failure the card names the cause and hands over the fix with the
operator's path already in it (systemctl edit bambuddy -> ReadWritePaths=...),
and a failed run reports the same diagnosis rather than the raw OSError. EROFS
outside systemd, permission-denied, out-of-space, not-a-directory and missing are
told apart, in all 11 locales.
Docker: a backup path that is not bind-mounted is writable -- the write lands in
the container's ephemeral layer and is lost on the next compose up. The probe
compares the directory's device against the container root and warns, with the
compose snippet that mounts it properly.
maziggy