Exposing Print Validation through the local API

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Hello,

While I enjoy the hardware the local API is currently a bit lacking. We would like to orient our models within a range. Within that range we try to find an orientation that has no cups detected. Is there any timeline when this print validation will be exposed through the API? And for that matter Undersupported Models and Minima would be great too.

Looking forward to a response. Thank you.

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Well @Printhub3D I don’t know if I got correctly your question, the current API already detects cups, and about the orientation you want a orientation within a range, is there a reason why you want to use the automatic orientation? I always suggest to people: does not use the auto orientation hahahha

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Hi! Thanks for sharing your feedback! This is on our roadmap, but we don’t have a timeline to share at this point. We’ll announce any news on this when available!

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He Sophia,

Thanks for the response. I understand putting a deadline on it is difficult but any idea if we are talking about 1-2 months or a year? A broad range is fine.

Also the settings for auto support you can set in the GUI do not match with the settings you can set using the API. I guess that’s also somewhere on the roadmap for a future update?

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He Joao,

Am I missing something?

{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "position": {
    "x": 0,
    "y": 0,
    "z": 0
  },
  "orientation": {
    "x": 0,
    "y": 0,
    "z": 0
  },
  "scale": 0,
  "units": "MILLIMETERS",
  "bounding_box": {
    "min_corner": {
      "x": 0,
      "y": 0,
      "z": 0
    },
    "max_corner": {
      "x": 0,
      "y": 0,
      "z": 0
    }
  },
  "original_file": "string",
  "visible": true,
  "has_supports": true,
  "in_bounds": true,
  "raw_mesh_hash": "string",
  "canonical_model_hash": "string",
  "lock": "FREE"
}

I think this is what you get to see for a model using the API.

I don’t want to use automatic orientation. I just want to go through a range of orientations we can work with for our models and detect if there is an orientation without cups in this range.

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@Printhub3D now I got your question hahaha, unfortunately I’m not familiar with the developer solutions within formlabs, but if possible share with us a little bit of your knowledge and ways of applying this into the 3d printing workflow, it would be awesome :handshake:

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I don’t know if I read over it or it was recently added but this is what I need. But I do have a suggestion to improve it. Can you guys add an option to specify which print validation should be calculated? For this specific stage I want to only detect a possible cup. No minima. I need to process hundreds of models and it would improve performance.