Thumbnails not being displayed on qidi x-max 3 screen

[pmbroth]

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OrcaSlicer Version

2.1.1

Operating System (OS)

Windows

OS Version

windows

Additional system information

No response

Printer

Qidi X-max 3

How to reproduce

send job to printer, no thumbnail generated

Actual results

black screen, no thumbnail is shown, goto Qidi users forums, users are all stating this with 2.1.1

Expected results

Thumbnail to be displayed

Project file & Debug log uploads

any stl will produce this outcome

settings below

Checklist of files to include

• [X] Log file
• [X] Project file

Anything else?

[kiniad]

I could confirm this for the Qidi X-Plus 3. Reason: The COLPIC section (gimage, simage) have to be at the end of the gcode, as it was before 2.1 final with the thumbnails revamp. See: https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/pull/5555

[Viktor-N-snr]

QIDI X-Plus 3, yes this problem is still there since previous versions. I tried all sorts of combinations of resolution, number of resolutions (for example 380x380/COLPIC only), other bitmap formats and so on. Nothing helped at all. A small thumbnail will appear in the file list. But not in the main window. Just the black square instead of the preview. With QIDI slicer it works corectly of course, ORCA doesn't. QIDI slicer settings are: 380x380/QIDI, 210x210/QIDI, 110x110/PNG. Well, ORCA doesn't know the QIDI type and uses COLPIC instead, but of course I immediately tried 380x380/COLPIC, 210x210/COLPIC, 110x110/PNG but alas — still the same, just black squere and not white circle or — required thumbnail… :-)))

[cableguyed]

Verified that if you save the gcode file, open with notepadd++ or similar and cut the ;gimage and ;simage sections, paste them at the very end, the thumbnails come right up when you use the device screen to upload the gcode file. I haven't had a chance to actually print a test file yet, but it looks promising. Should be a simple fix for Orca code.

[Viktor-N-snr]

Thanks for this interesting solution, but really there is no chance to edit each G-Code, when I am sending that directly to the printer. :-)

[cableguyed]

Hi, If you click on the down arrow next to the print tab and select save as gcode instead, then create the file, edit it to make it show the thumbnail, then go to the device tab and under jobs click on the plus sign and select upload, then browse to the edited gcode file and you will have the thumbnail on the printer screen when you select to print the file. This is just a temporary fix until the coders get around to qidi update on orca... I have multiple qidi printers and like to see what is on each at a glance. Regards, Ed

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Thanks for this interesting solution, but really there is no chance to edit each G-Code, when I am sending that directly to the printer. :-)

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[pmbroth]

This is what I did, and it works on my qidi x-max 3, I moved the thumbnail section to the bottom of the configuration file. Move yellow section to the bottom, as I did in the json file attached. fdm_qidi_x3_common.json

[cableguyed]

That made no difference for my X-Max3.

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This is what I did, and it works on my qidi x-max 3, I moved the thumbnail section to the bottom of the configuration file. fdm_qidi_x3_common.json https://github.com/user-attachments/files/16234971/fdm_qidi_x3_common.json

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[nicolalamacchia]

Use this script in the post-processing setting: Global Settings -> Others -> [scroll to the bottom] -> Post-processing Scripts -> type the full path of the script you downloaded (make sure that the script is executable).

It worked for my X-Plus 3.

Thanks @kiniad. Looks like moving the whole thumbnail block works.

[jimwhitelaw]

I tried the solution posted by @pmbroth; it did not work on my X-Max 3.

[cableguyed]

Compiling the python script (with minor tweak to get the start point fixed) works great for both my X-Max3 and X-Smart 3. Thanks Nicola!

[ovidakis]

Compiling the python script (with minor tweak to get the start point fixed) works great for both my X-Max3 and X-Smart 3. Thanks Nicola!

Hi @cableguyed ! How did u do that? I'v copied that file to my: /home/mks/qidi_thumbnail.py and make it executable and after that I copied address to orcaslicer. Still not workig. Am I missing something?

Thank you!

[cableguyed]

First, make a copy of the qidi_thumbnail.py just in case... I had to edit the qidi_thumbnail.py to change the " # Find the start and end of the thumbnail block" section to: for i, line in enumerate(lines): if re.match(r'; HEADER_BLOCK_END', line): thumbnail_start = i+1 if re.match(r'; external perimeters*', line): thumbnail_end = i-1 I haven't done any Python programming at all and any serious programming for years so I had to google some python methods to figure out that the program wants to look in the Python/scripts area for the compiled result. Below is my file path once I created the executable in Python. (And put your path in the post-processing scripts area in Orca.)

C:\Users\cable\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\dist\qidi_thumbnail.exe;

I also had to change the image sizes for the different LCD screen sizes between my X-Max3 and my X-Smart3. X-Max3 = 380x380/COLPIC, 210x210/COLPIC, 110x110/PNG X-Smart3 = 210x210/COLPIC, 110x110/COLPIC, 110x110/PNG

Hope this helps! Regards, Ed

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 5:24 AM ovidakis @.***> wrote:

Compiling the python script (with minor tweak to get the start point fixed) works great for both my X-Max3 and X-Smart 3. Thanks Nicola!

Hi @cableguyed https://github.com/cableguyed ! How did u do that? I'v copied that file to my: /home/mks/qidi_thumbnail.py and make it executable and after that I copied address to orcaslicer. Still not workig. Am I missing something?

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[ovidakis]

Hi Ed, still not woking :( I looked to g-code file and I found at the end of the file that the post-processing script done the job. Probably xindi/display cant read correctly those lines. By the way, my printer (X-max3) is on latest firmware based on Debian 12 Bookworm. BR, ovi

[cableguyed]

I only update firmware from qidi direct, don't know if that makes a difference.

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 2:34 PM ovidakis @.***> wrote:

First, make a copy of the qidi_thumbnail.py just in case... I had to edit the qidi_thumbnail.py to change the " # Find the start and end of the thumbnail block" section to: for i, line in enumerate(lines): if re.match(r'; HEADER_BLOCK_END', line): thumbnail_start = i+1 if re.match(r'; external perimeters', line): thumbnail_end = i-1 I haven't done any Python programming at all and any serious programming for years so I had to google some python methods to figure out that the program wants to look in the Python/scripts area for the compiled result. Below is my file path once I created the executable in Python. (And put your path in the post-processing scripts area in Orca.) C:\Users\cable\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\dist\qidi_thumbnail.exe; I also had to change the image sizes for the different LCD screen sizes between my X-Max3 and my X-Smart3. X-Max3 = 380x380/COLPIC, 210x210/COLPIC, 110x110/PNG X-Smart3 = 210x210/COLPIC, 110x110/COLPIC, 110x110/PNG Hope this helps! Regards, Ed … <#m2451421436868073245> On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 5:24 AM ovidakis @.> wrote: Compiling the python script (with minor tweak to get the start point fixed) works great for both my X-Max3 and X-Smart 3. Thanks Nicola! Hi @cableguyed https://github.com/cableguyed https://github.com/cableguyed https://github.com/cableguyed ! How did u do that? I'v copied that file to my: /home/mks/qidi_thumbnail.py and make it executable and after that I copied address to orcaslicer. Still not workig. Am I missing something? 1.JPG (view on web) https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/79f41d79-6122-4db7-8740-e458dd0897a9 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/79f41d79-6122-4db7-8740-e458dd0897a9 image.png (view on web) https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/122c54ae-166b-458c-97de-e0af1647043d https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/122c54ae-166b-458c-97de-e0af1647043d Thank you! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5973 (comment) https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/issues/5973#issuecomment-2308788879>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AO4WM7TZXZOOFQRBSFRLW5DZTG5F3AVCNFSM6AAAAABKGGELHOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDGMBYG44DQOBXHE https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AO4WM7TZXZOOFQRBSFRLW5DZTG5F3AVCNFSM6AAAAABKGGELHOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDGMBYG44DQOBXHE . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: @.*>

Hi Ed, still not woking :( I looked to g-code file and I found at the end of the file that the post-processing script done the job. Probably xindi/display cant read correctly those lines. By the way, my printer (X-max3) is on latest firmware based on Debian 12 Bookworm.

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[Brandon520x]

I can confirm the thumbnails are not working on my X-Plus 3 with current QIDI firmware using 2.1.1. Very frustrating since this seems to have been committed in the latest build.

[astrojolo]

Still not working on the X-Plus 3 and 2.2.0-beta version.

[toxin9993]

still not working on the X-Plus3 Orcaslicer v2.2.0-beta2

[pmbroth]

rc 22 still thumbnails not working. .

[pmbroth]

Thumbnails still not working with 2.2 RC

[breathless19]

Just wanted to chime in to say that cableguyed's solution worked on my X-Max 3 in OrcaSlicer. I didn't know what he was talking about with creating executable's in python, so I just edited the script according to what he said. First try, I got a line indentation error when trying to print my first file, which means that a straight copy and paste made the start of the edit indented by one space. Whoops.... Took that back one space by comparing it to the original script posted by nicolalamacchia and it worked! I'm on the latest X-Max 3 firmware by the way, and OrcaSlicer 2.2 RC.

[pmbroth]

@breathless19 You edited the script that you downloaded from his site? Then you just placed the whole script in the post processing area?

[cableguyed]

I looked at the script and it didn't match the gcode that my X-Max3 made so I edited it to catch the proper start and end lines of the 2 image sections at the top part of the gcode file that I used to test with. And No, you have to compile it to an executable with python. There are directions where you download python... I put the executable where python put it and just copied the path in Orca postprocessing script area. BTW, it's working fine, use it constantly. Regards, Ed

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@breathless19 https://github.com/breathless19 You edited the script that you downloaded from his site? Then you just placed the whole script in the post processing area?

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[pmbroth]

I firgured it out. I compoiled the script and all works...

[cableguyed]

Glad to hear!

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I firgured it out. I compoiled the script and all works...

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[pmbroth]

Thank you again for your solution!!!! @cableguyed