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⇱ Printsight v0.2 — Now Shows Exactly Where Your 3D Print Defects Are - DEV Community

Last week I released Printsight — an open-source CLI tool that detects 3D print defects from a photo using pure OpenCV.

The feedback was consistent: "The text report is useful, but show me where on the print the problems are."

So that's exactly what v0.2 does:

printsight my_print.jpg --annotate
# → my_print_annotated.png with color-coded defect markings

What You Get

Run with the --annotate flag and Printsight saves a marked-up version of your photo:

printsight failed_print.jpg -a

The output image uses four colors:

Color What it marks
🔴 Red Stringing — thin polylines over detected wisps
🟡 Yellow Layer issues — horizontal bands where regularity is poor
🔵 Blue Warping — circles on lifted corners
🟢 Green Reference line — where the bottom edge should be

Plus a score overlay in the top-right corner.

How the Annotations Work

Stringing (Red)

The stringing detector uses two methods in parallel:

  1. Hough Line Transform on Canny edges — finds thin, non-horizontal line segments
  2. Morphological erosion — erodes the print body to isolate thin wisps

Both sets of detected features are drawn as red polylines directly on the image. More red = more stringing.

Layer Issues (Yellow)

The layer analyzer computes horizontal gradient magnitude → projects onto vertical axis → measures peak regularity.

When peak spacing deviates significantly from the mean, that horizontal band is highlighted in yellow. The more bands, the more irregular the extrusion.

Warping (Blue + Green)

The warping detector finds the print's bottom edge (lower 20% of bounding box) and fits a straight line to it.

  • Green line: the ideal straight bottom edge
  • Blue circles: points that deviate significantly from the line (lifted corners)
  • Green dots: normal, well-adhered bottom points

Full Workflow with v0.2 

# Before tuning — get a baseline
printsight bridge_test.jpg -a
# Shows red stringing strands + warped corners on the annotated output

# After tuning retraction + bed temp
printsight bridge_test.jpg -a
# Compare annotated images side by side

This is the feedback loop that makes iterative tuning actually work. No more squinting and guessing.

Companion Tools

Printsight is part of a three-tool open-source workflow:

SupportSage ──► FilamentDB ──► Printsight
(optimize) (settings) (inspect)
  • SupportSage — AI-optimized support structures (33% material savings)
  • FilamentDB — 25+ filament profiles with recommended settings
  • Printsight v0.2 — print quality inspection with visual annotations

All MIT licensed, pure Python, zero ML dependencies.

Install:

pip install https://github.com/bossman-lab/printsight/releases/download/v0.2.0/printsight-0.2.0-py3-none-any.whl

Usage:

printsight photo.jpg -a

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