How feasible is a link between klipper and superslicer?

General Discussion
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Basic Information:

Printer Model:Voron 2.4 and zero
MCU / Printerboard:BTT
Host / SBC rpi4
klippy.log not applicable

this is just an idea so please move it if you feel it is the wrong place. i could not find a suitable category.

how about a live link between superslicer (or any other for that matter) and klipper to show exactly what is getting printed right at that moment in the slicer platter window?

I know it sounds a bit strange perhaps, but I often look up the layer height in the mainsail window and check in the slicer what is going on. This is just for checks if I suddenly think something is off or not right. but it makes perfect sense when you see it on the screen as well as on the printer at the same time.

one example where it might be useful is if you want to do a manual colour change. O when you expect trouble due to previous failure perhaps. To be able to follow it exactly on screen and to analyse the moves I think could be of great help.

And after it has gone wrong, if it were possible to play it back to the exact point of failure, you could better understand why it has failed and mitigate the situation in slicer settings or by model design.

So what about this idea? Looking forward to the discussion to see what people think?

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SuperSlicer (as well as OrcaSlicer and PrusaSlicer) do not connect to Klipper directly but via the chosen frontend like OctoPrint, Mainsail or Fluidd.

These display the positions of the commands that are just have been sent to Klipper via Moonraker.

There are some pipelines that store some commands for fluently processing the things that have to be printed.

Therefore the display in the frontends is always a bit ahead of what is just happening on the printer.

In this case I recommend a corresponding command to be set in the slicer for a a proper filament change at that certain point. Actually, the commands flow that fast, you can’t hit the proper point manually.

That sounds like a single step feature, preferably in dry mode.