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3D printer / slicing GUI built on top of the Uranium framework
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Missing warning when printing a material profile not compatible with printer #8086

Open omdathetkan opened 4 years ago

omdathetkan commented 4 years ago

Application version Cura 4.6

Platform Windows 10

Printer Ultimaker S3

Reproduction steps Print using a material that has no compatibility profile for selected printer

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Actual results Print is sent to printer, printer shows warning "change material" but the material is not available from the material list since it is not compatible with the printer.

Expected results When clicking "Print over network" a warning should popup saying that the material profile is not compatible with the selected printer

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Ghostkeeper commented 4 years ago

We do colour the material orange when you select it, and the header bar says "Not Supported". image

Maybe it would help to make the profile drop-down orange as well? I'd expect you to see the orange colour when choosing the material in the drop-down. You wouldn't see it if you didn't select the material from the drop-down but by syncing with the printer, but then you'll have seen a warning on the printer about it.

Which material are you using?

fieldOfView commented 4 years ago

My Sidebar GUI plugin implements a subtle but very useful warning icon to show which combination out of multiple extruders is causing the "not supported": image In the above we see that the combination in extruder 2 is the problem.

Ghostkeeper commented 4 years ago

As @SandervanG mentioned in a duplicate of this issue, the UX designers have been trying to make this a bit more clear as well, but that's not finished. One related problem is that this can also be a problem of having the wrong nozzle. We'd show the warning on both the nozzle and material drop-downs: image

This design also includes making the warning colour visible for a specific tab. The warning icon idea from fieldOfView is a bit more clear in that regard I think. Or both.

fieldOfView commented 4 years ago

I could make a PR to get the icon in Cura.

fieldOfView commented 4 years ago

The design posted by @Ghostkeeper above looks like it still needs the configurations floater to be opened for the problem-combination to be highlighted.