Interlayer Time

Interlayer Time shows, for every point of the print, how long ago the material directly underneath it was laid down. This interlayer time governs adhesion and collapse in clay: too short, and the layer below has not stiffened enough to carry the next one; too long, and it has skinned over and the next layer will not bond to it. The clock comes from the G-code’s own feeds, or from the timestamps of a connected print log when one is wired in. The toolpath, or the printed layers, are coloured on a Plasma scale between your two thresholds.

Panel: 5 Analyze. Nickname: Interlayer. Compute button: no (runs on every change).

Inputs

Name	Type	Default	Description
gcode	Text (list)		G-code as one string or a list of lines. Optional when a print log is wired, since the log’s own samples become the path
gcodePath	Text		Optional G-code file path, read in the background. With a print log its exact bytes anchor the log’s file positions to the moves
log	Text (list)		Print log CSV lines from a retained job log. When wired, the log’s clock replaces the estimate
logPath	Text		Optional print log CSV file path, printlog_*.csv or a retained job log
layer	Integer	0	Highest visible layer, counted from 1 (0 = all), limiting both preview and output trees
isolate	Boolean	false	Show only the top visible layer instead of everything up to it
minTime	Number	0	Minimum acceptable interlayer time in s, calibrated for the material (0 = no lower warning)
maxTime	Number	120	Maximum acceptable interlayer time in s, calibrated for the material (0 = no upper warning)
legendMax	Number	0	Color scale maximum, s (0 = auto: 1.5 x maxTime, else the 95th percentile). Fixed per analysis so a color keeps its meaning

Optional group: Layer geometry inputs (width, height, radius)

Right-click the component to switch this group on. The inputs appear only while the group is enabled.

Name	Type	Default	Description
width	Number	0	Layer width, mm (0 = the file’s LINEWIDTH header, else 10)
height	Number	0	Layer height, mm (0 = the file’s LAYERHEIGHT header, else the median Z step)
radius	Number	0	Search radius for the layer below, mm (0 = layer width, or 3 x the sample spacing for log only paths)

Optional group: Feed override inputs (estimated clock)

Right-click the component to switch this group on. The inputs appear only while the group is enabled.

Name	Type	Default	Description
printFeed	Number	25	Print feed where a move has no F word, mm/s
travelFeed	Number	50	Travel feed where a move has no F word, mm/s
accel	Number	0	XY acceleration, mm/s² (0 = commanded feeds only). Adds the trapezoidal ramp model of Print Stats to the estimated clock

Optional group: Display inputs (lines/layers, layer shading)

Right-click the component to switch this group on. The inputs appear only while the group is enabled.

Name	Type	Default	Description
display	Integer	0	0 = toolpath lines, 1 = extruded layers as a vertex colored mesh
shade	Integer	1	Tell adjacent layers apart: 0 = none, 1 = alternate layers tinted, 2 = a bottom to top ramp. Preview only, the colors output stays the unshaded scale color

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
report	Text	Readable report of the whole print: clock source, thresholds, totals and a table per layer. Connect a panel
perLayer	Number (tree)	Data for the visible layers, one branch per layer: layer, Z mm, start s, duration s, min s, mean s, max s, too fast samples, too slow samples
times	Number (tree)	Interlayer time per path vertex, s. Branches match the path output, cut to the visible layers (-1 = no layer below inside the radius)
path	Curve (tree)	Extrusion runs as polylines, one branch per layer and run, document units, cut to the visible layers
colors	Colour (tree)	Plasma color per path vertex, branches cut like the path output, for a custom preview. The unshaded scale color, whatever shade draws
layers	Integer	Layer count of the whole print, not of the visible cut
info	Text	Diagnostics
legend	Text	Legend definition text for Legend, matching this analysis’s time scale and warning thresholds

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