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STL File Direct Print #19

Open trbielec opened 10 years ago

trbielec commented 10 years ago

[Feature Request / Enhancement]

On previous hangouts for the Hand-o-Matic, I mentioned that for our project PrintToPeer we have been building a print button that can send the STL file directly into a 3D print queue from any website.

This print button is now ready to be used. It would be great to see how useful the button could be for you. The inital documentation is on this page: https://printtopeer.io/api

The print button allows any 3D printer owner to send the STL file directly from Hand-o-Matic to their 3D printers. I'm excited that by automating the whole process it will be faster and easier to print prosthetics.

screen shot 2014-09-25 at 3 30 49 pm

Our printing system has been in development for over a year and a half, and is now capable of sending prints from the web to any Marlin 3D printer or Makerbot. There is webcam support, SMS notifications, and realtime feedback. We will be adding plating and multi-file uploads in the near future. You can request the Raspberry Pi software for free by sending me an email (on my profile).

laird commented 10 years ago

Very interesting, Tom!

If you can join us for the Hand-o-matic hangout tonight at 10:00 PM (or in following weeks) it would be interesting to discuss as a possible 'next step' for us to add!

Are you in the e-NABLE Google+ Community? If not, please join, and then you can join the hangout.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Tom Bielecki notifications@github.com wrote:

On previous hangouts for the Hand-o-Matic, I mentioned that for our project PrintToPeer we have been building a print button that can send the STL file directly into a 3D print queue.

This print button is now ready to be used. It would be great to see how useful the button could be for you. The inital documentation is on this page: https://printtopeer.io/api

The print button allows any 3D printer owner to send the STL file directly from Hand-o-Matic to their 3D printers. I'm excited that by automating the whole process it will be faster and easier to print prosthetics.

[image: screen shot 2014-09-25 at 3 30 49 pm] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/663001/4412675/53d3dfc8-44fb-11e4-8922-006acf797d87.png

Our printing system has been in development for over a year and a half, and is now capable of sending prints from the web to any Marlin 3D printer or Makerbot. There is webcam support, SMS notifications, and realtime feedback. We will be adding plating and multi-file uploads in the near future. You can request the Raspberry Pi software for free by sending me an email (on my profile).

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/e-nable/Service-Station/issues/19.

Laird Popkin | Executive Director, Architecture KAPLAN TECHNOLOGY Kaplan, Inc. | 6301 Kaplan University Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 tel +1 954 515 4509 | email laird.popkin@kaplan.com

trbielec commented 10 years ago

Hi Laird, yes I am in the Google+ community. I will try to make it to the next hangout. Cheers!

laird commented 10 years ago

Excellent! We're launching a new version of Hand-o-matic today, so next week is a perfect time to talk about 'next steps' such as this integration.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Tom Bielecki notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Laird, yes I am in the Google+ community. I will try to make it to the next hangout. Cheers!

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/e-nable/Service-Station/issues/19#issuecomment-56997691 .

Laird Popkin | Executive Director, Architecture KAPLAN TECHNOLOGY Kaplan, Inc. | 6301 Kaplan University Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 tel +1 954 515 4509 | email laird.popkin@kaplan.com

laird commented 10 years ago

I looked into this - easy to implement for a single file, but not for a zip file of STLs. Potentially we could add it to a landing page that lists the individual files, plus a handler to unpack individual files on demand?

laird commented 10 years ago

+1

laird commented 10 years ago

+1

trbielec commented 10 years ago

@laird We are currently adding the ability to define how many copies of a part are sent to the print queue. Should be available in the next week!

laird commented 10 years ago

Excellent!

Let's talk about making this happen. Could we get you to help us construct a landing page that would provide the links to print the parts? Right now we're packing them into a single zip file for delivery. Can that work with your platform? Or would we need to add a mechanism to unpack individual files for sending to print? Could you join is on next week's hangout (10 PM EST Thursday)?

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Tom Bielecki notifications@github.com wrote:

@laird https://github.com/laird We are currently adding the ability to define how many copies of a part are sent to the print queue. Should be available in the next week!

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/e-nable/Service-Station/issues/19#issuecomment-63115014 .

Laird Popkin | Executive Director, Architecture KAPLAN TECHNOLOGY Kaplan, Inc. | 6301 Kaplan University Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 tel +1 954 515 4509 | email laird.popkin@kaplan.com

trbielec commented 10 years ago

@laird thursday night I will be in an airport, sorry!

The print button requires a URL for each STL file. If you store the STL files on the server while the ZIP is downloaded, the ZIP could contain an HTML file with print buttons for each of the links. If resources are a concern, you could auto-delete the STL files after a day perhaps. After a print has been sent to your account the STL file is copied to PrintToPeer, so the original is no longer necessary.

I'm not sure if it makes more sense for you to do it this way or to just provide a webpage.

trbielec commented 10 years ago

@laird "multiple copies" functinoality will be available in the print button on Friday. Cheers!

laird commented 10 years ago

Cool.

For individual file printing, I think we woould need to unpack the zip and link the file, then purge eventually.

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On Nov 19, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Tom Bielecki notifications@github.com wrote:

@laird https://github.com/laird "multiple copies" functinoality will be available in the print button on Friday. Cheers!

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/e-nable/Service-Station/issues/19#issuecomment-63678003 .