How to get snapshots using my robotics/G-Code animation plugin?

Rhino Developer
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I created Youtube video for my plugin using screen cam software.

My plugin can simulate/animate “G-Code” or some robot language for mechanical moving.

I want to capture each frame when rendering(laytrace) is finished. ( I can control animation frame in my plugin)

I’d like to know how to do that.

Thanks.

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there is a ViewCapture-Class
https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/rhinocommon/rhino.display.viewcapture

see this example (python - but shows the concept)

is your plugin public ? / available ?
any further infos on your plugin ?

kind regards

tom

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Thank you so much.

This plugin is under development now.

Do you know any good place/website to make people know and use like this (non general) rhino-plugin? I’m curious about getting some feedbacks.

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no - not really.
there is a some similar (expensive) software on the marked.
google for nc-code / g-code viewer / editor
cnc simulator
then you can check where those products / apps are discussed ?

check out food4rhino there is a cnc/cam section - but I guess, there is other places with more traffic.

one important feature is collision detection - i used a custom simulation software that has the functionality to capture collisions, highlights colliding parts, takes a screenshot and time / line of code stamp.
so you could run a simulation and check only the collision moments / g-code lines.

would be nice to have the gcode with a fixed width Font and some kind of syntax highlight / colorised X Y Z …

kind regards -tom