Universal Gcode sender, features exploration

[Jaknil]

Some features that I and Jon explored in UGS. Some things might be know already but I'll log them anyway.

• Display the entire work area exists as a feature!
  If you turn on the soft limits and homing the work area will be displayed in the visualizer. The axis were inverted in my test but I think that would go away if I homed so it might not be displayed perfect before homeing. (Can possibly be hacked.) And the scroll zoom and shift-click pan behavior could be much better but at least it exists!
  

• UGS runs a webserver accessable on the local network (localhost:8080)
  It can be accessed through any browser (like your phone) and show different information and buttons on different "pages".
  This interface can be used to fetch information to or send commands from Grashopper, smart buttons we build ourseves etc.
  The default layout has three tabs and looks like this:
  Tab1

Tab 2

Tab 3

They are written in javascript and plain html so they seem to be quite hackable.

• USG has a camera support plugin
  I assume we could stream this to the webserver as well.
  https://github.com/pelrun/ugs-platform-plugin-camera
  pendant cam winder/Universal-G-Code-Sender#191
  

• UGS Welcome page
  At least this was a new feature for me (nightly build). Makes it easier getting started.
  

• The UGS how-to-make-a plugin page has an examples for a plugin that triggers a message after a job is completed. I think this is a good starting point to read and ask the user for thickness and bit diameter etc.
  

[tingox]

Hopefully, UGS (or OctoPrint) will do what we want. If not, there are alternatives to explore: bCNC, Candle, SourceRabbit GCode Sender, and more.