This post-processing script uses the Elegoo provided image encoding libraries to generate a preview thumbnail, on the printer.
These libraries come with Elegoo Cura. If anyone knowns more about these, let me know in an issue. If we can come up with a pure python implementation, then this could be made easier to release.
I don't know how the image encoding works, so the Elegoo provided libraries are used.
These libraries come from Elegoo Cura, found at: https://www.elegoo.com/pages/3d-printing-user-support
Within the Cura/plugins/MKS Plugin folder you will find:
- ColPic_X64.dll: Windows
- libColPic.dylib: macOS
- libColPic.so: Linux
I did not provide the libraries in this repo, because I don't know what the licensing is, and I don't know what's in them.
They must be manually copied to a "lib" folder, alongside this script. See the Readme.md in the lib folder, for special instructions for macOS.
This is a script used by the PostProcessingPlugin that comes with Cura.
- Find where user scripts are stored.
In Cura, click Help in the menu, then "Show Configuration Folder". In there, you'll see a "scripts" folder. Place CreateElegooNeptune3Thumbnail.py, and the lib folder into there.