10.5.1 (Queued) print job tiles and modification menu

The printer owner and managers may not only view all jobs in a printer’s queue, including jobs of other members, such managers may also modify any job in the queue, including jobs submitted by other members. In particular, a printer manager may delete any job from the print queue, or rearrange the order of all jobs in the queue, or merge any queued jobs. (Group members with “Control Printers” access may view all jobs in the queue, and may rearrange the order of all jobs in the queue.)

Queued print jobs may be displayed on the printer dashboard, on the printer “QUEUED” screen, and on a Polar Cloud member’s account “QUEUED” screen (which consolidates all of that member’s print jobs across all printers). In general, a print job tile may include:⁹

• a rendered image of the object,
• for objects sliced in the Polar Cloud, a banner across the bottom of the rendered image of the object displaying the slicing status, (on the printer dashboard only),
• a “Job Name” for the print job,
• three vertical dots (to the upper right of the print job tile), which you may click to open the print job modification menu,
• the Polar Cloud member who submitted the print job (the member’s icon, “Display Name”, and “Email”); (on printer dashboard and printer “QUEUED” screen, not on account “QUEUED” screen),
• the printer “Name” and “Serial Number”, (on account “QUEUED” screen, not on printer dashboard or printer “QUEUED” screen),
• the print job “REQUEST” field, if set,
• the print job’s position (number) in the queue, (on the printer dashboard only),
• the date/time when the print job was submitted, (on the “QUEUED” screen for printer or account, not on printer dashboard), or how long ago the print job was submitted (on the printer dashboard).

Clicking on the three vertical dots at the top right of the tile for a print job will bring up the menu of available modifications; see for instance Figure 10.39 and Figure 10.40. (The job has a scroll bar on its right; Figure 10.39 shows the top of the menu, while Figure 10.40 shows the bottom of the menu.) Note that when an object was sliced in the Polar Cloud (as when printing an object on a FlashForge 3D printer or DREMEL 3D printer) or for print jobs created by uploading G-code, the printer manager job modification menu will include an additional option, “Download G-Code File”, to download the actual generated G-code; see for instance Figure 10.41.

Figure 10.41: Printer manager; subset of job modification menu for object sliced in the Polar Cloud

The range of job modification menu options available to printer managers includes:

• “Edit Job”, which takes you back to the job’s build plate screen, where you may perform any of the usual modifications, including:
  • Change the “PLACEMENT” of the object: MOVE, SCALE, or ROTATE.
  • Change the “PRINT SETTINGS” for the object: BASIC, ADVANCED, or G-CODE.
  • Change a “REQUEST” (typically a filament request) for the print job.
  • Change the “UI SETTINGS” for build plate controls.
  • Delete an object from the build plate (which as there may be multiple objects on the build plate, submitted as single print job, is not necessarily the same thing as deleting the entire print job via the “Remove Job” tab discussed below).
  • Duplicate an object on the build plate.
  • Upload an object (from your device or Google Drive) both to the build plate and to the Polar Cloud.
  • Add another object (from “MY OBJECTS”) to the build plate.
  • Merge (loading onto the build plate) the objects from other print jobs queued to the printer.
• “Edit Job Name”, which allows changing the “Job Name” displayed on the print job tile.
• “Send Job to Front”, which changes the order of queued jobs. (Only available to printer managers, as well as group members with “Control Printers” access.)
• “Send Job to Back”, which changes the order of queued jobs. (Only available to printer managers, as well as group members with “Control Printers” access.)
• “Download STL File”, which downloads the print job’s object(s) (as a single .stl file) to your device. (Not available for jobs created directly from G-code.)
• “Download Config File”, which downloads the print job’s slicing profile (the job’s “PRINT SETTINGS”) to your device. (Not available for jobs created directly from G-code.)
• “Download G-Code File” (available when an object was sliced in the Polar Cloud, as when printing on a FlashForge 3D printer or DREMEL 3D printer, or for print jobs created by uploading G-code), which downloads the generated G-code to your device.
• “Change Printer”, to move a print job to a different printer.
• “Remove Job”, which of course removes the entire job from the queue. (In the case of a job which includes multiple objects, if you only wish to remove particular object(s) from the print job rather than removing the entire job, see instead the “Edit Job” tab, discussed above.)
• “Remove Job with Comment”, which removes the entire job from the queue, adding a comment which may be viewed subsequently in the print job history “COMMENTS” under the printer “HISTORY” and job owner’s account “HISTORY”.

Polar Cloud members of a group with “Control Printers” access to a printer may view all print jobs in the queue (and may rearrange the order of any print jobs in the queue using the “Send Job to Front” or “Send Job to Back” options), but may otherwise modify only their own print jobs.

A Polar Cloud member (who is not the owner nor a manager of the printer, nor a member of a group with control access to the printer) can see and modify only those print jobs he or she submitted to the printer’s job queue, as well as seeing through the printer dashboard a live view (on printers that include a camera) of whatever the printer is currently doing (which may be printing another member’s job). Figure 10.42 shows an example of the printer management “QUEUED” screen display, and Figure 10.43 shows an example of the printer dashboard screen display, as presented to a member who has two queued print jobs of their own pending while some other member’s job is currently printing on the printer.

In particular, Polar Cloud members without manager access to a printer can only perform operations on their own print jobs (before they begin printing), such as editting/combining their own print jobs, or removing their own queued jobs; furthermore, non-managers may not re-order print jobs. Clicking on the three vertical dots towards the upper right of the queued job tile (see Figure 10.42 or Figure 10.43) will bring up the member options for modifying a queued job (see Figure 10.44 or Figure 10.45, respectively).

A Polar Cloud member’s own account “QUEUED” screen, see Section 3.3.3, also displays the member’s currently queued jobs on all printers, so it is a view of the member’s personal “queue” of jobs across all printers. A member may edit their own print jobs from that screen as well; see Figure 10.46.

For print jobs which had object slicing performed in the Polar Cloud (or which were created by uploading G-code), printer users, as well as printer managers, will see an additional option, “Download G-Code File”, on such jobs’ print job menus.