Review the slicing-pipeline plugin comments for context a reader of the source
alone cannot follow, and rewrite them to stand on their own:
- drop pointers to uncommitted design/plan material ("§3.6 (Twistify design)",
"the brief's note", "Fix 4(a)/4(b)")
- fix dangling references to code this branch removed: the retired set_slices()
and view mutators, the former G-code post-processing capability/trampoline,
the "Post-processing" capability family, the pre-refactor array helper
- drop "v1"/"in v1" phase labels, keeping the behavior they described
- correct stale cross-references: Twistify.py -> the real sample path;
test_plugin_host_api.cpp:32-40 -> import_orca_module in python_test_support.hpp;
"the binding"/"graphs above" -> the named source
Comment/string-only; no code behavior change.
G-code post-processing is now a step of the slicing-pipeline plugin rather than a
separate capability type. One capability class can transform slices at the geometry
seams AND edit the final G-code, behind a single picker/option.
- Add SlicingPipelineStepPlugin::psGCodePostProcess (bound as
orca.slicing.Step.psGCodePostProcess). Unlike the geometry steps it fires from the
GUI export path in PostProcessor.cpp, not from Print::process(): ctx.print/ctx.object
are None and the plugin edits the file at ctx.gcode_path in place. It may run more
than once per slice (file export and/or upload) and its output is not shown in the
preview.
- Extend SlicingPipelineContext with gcode_path/host/output_name and a C++-only
full_config; config_value() falls back to it when there is no live Print.
- PostProcessor.cpp dispatches SlicingPipelinePluginCapability at psGCodePostProcess,
driven by the existing slicing_pipeline_plugin option.
- The exported G-code lives outside data_dir(), so the plugin audit sandbox would
block the write; the trampoline's audit setup grants ctx.gcode_path's folder as a
scoped allowed root, gated on a non-empty gcode_path so the geometry-step hooks gain
no extra filesystem access.
BREAKING CHANGE: the separate G-code post-processing capability type is removed.
- orca.gcode.GCodePluginCapabilityBase and orca.PluginType.PostProcessing are gone;
post-processing plugins migrate to orca.slicing.SlicingPipelineCapabilityBase +
Step.psGCodePostProcess (and gain ctx.params / ctx.config_value()).
- The post_process_plugin config option is removed; use slicing_pipeline_plugin.
Presets carrying the old key degrade to the standard unknown-key warning.
- Manifest type = "post-processing" now maps to Unknown (advisory only; the loader
dispatches on the C++ get_type()).
Also repairs two latent build breaks the branch carried: stale Step enum value usages
in test_slicing_pipeline_hook.cpp and a reference to the removed
ConfigOptionDef::PluginType::None in Tab::on_value_change (now is_plugin_backed()).
Adds the orca_gcode_stamp sample plugin and a psGCodePostProcess binding test.
Replaces the plugin-only set_slices/set_fill_surfaces/set_lslices mutators with a
faithful, mutable binding of the core geometry types, so a plugin edits the slicing
graph through the same object model the C++ code uses.
- Point, Polygon, ExPolygon, Surface and SurfaceCollection gain constructors,
writable accessors (contour/holes, set/append/clear, filter_by_type), transforms
(rotate/scale/translate), boolean ops and offset. Polygon exposes a zero-copy
writable numpy view via a make_writable_rows helper.
- LayerRegion.slices/fill_surfaces stay read-only refs but are now live,
in-place-editable SurfaceCollections; Layer.make_slices() re-derives the islands
and refreshes lslice bounding boxes.
- Rewrites the Inset and Twistify samples on the new API (in-place ExPolygon
transforms, ExPolygon.offset, SurfaceCollection.set), dropping their numpy
dependency; each touched layer calls make_slices() so downstream steps see the
edited footprint. Adds tests covering in-place edits through a live collection.
BREAKING CHANGE: set_slices/set_fill_surfaces/set_lslices and the internal
parse_expolygon(_list)/surfaces_from_py helpers are removed. Plugins mutate through
the class API (SurfaceCollection.set/append/clear, Polygon.set_points/append,
ExPolygon.set_holes) instead.
Adds PluginHostSlicing, which registers the print-graph data model (Print,
PrintObject, Layer, LayerRegion, Surface, ExPolygon, extrusions, ...) into the
orca.host submodule in the same raw-class style as PluginHostApi's Model/Preset
graph, with shared helpers in PluginBindingUtils. SlicingPipelinePluginCapability
is trimmed to the capability surface (the standalone SlicingNumpy helper is folded
away). Adds the Twistify example plugin next to Inset and broadens the binding,
hook, and plugin-install tests.
Introduces a plugin capability that runs Python at the seams of Print::process(),
letting a plugin read and rewrite slicing state as it is computed.
- New slicing_pipeline_plugin config option; selected plugin refs are serialized
into the print manifest.
- Print gains an injectable hook fired at each pipeline step (posSlice,
posPerimeters, posInfill, ...). It is a no-op when unset, fires only on genuine
(re)computation, and never on the use-cache path.
- orca.slicing submodule: SlicingPipelineCapabilityBase plus a trampoline and a
Step enum. Capabilities read the live graph through zero-copy int64 numpy views
(contour/holes geometry with unscaled coordinates, flattened toolpath data) and
edit it through 2D-geometry mutators with cache-invariant refresh.
- GUI dispatcher runs capabilities during slicing under the GIL, turns plugin
errors into slicing errors, honors cancellation, and adds the plugin picker.
- Ships the InsetEverySlice sample plugin and binding/hook tests.
