@fdm-monster/server

FDM Monster

Documentation

What is FDM Monster?

FDM Monster is a server for managing your 3D printer farm through OctoPrint. Our efforts are focused on providing a professional print-farming workflow that is suitable for hobby and commercial farms alike.

This server has been battle-tested in the field for 100+ printers, so give it a star ⭐and enhance your 3D Printing Farm's workflow!

Features

• Adding OctoPrint instances
• Dragging printers on grid
• Dropping GCode to print
• Batch select and print GCode
• Marking printers as maintenance mode
• Import printers from OctoFarm
• Raspberry Pi image MonsterPi

The FDM Monster grid after placing one OctoPrint instance.

Getting started

Check out the Documentation. Are you interested in running the Raspberry Pi image? Please jump ahead MonsterPi Section.

Reach out for questions

Please join the discord, but stay professional and proactive!

• Discord server: https://discord.gg/mwA8uP8CMc
• Website: https://fdm-monster.net
• Mail: [e-mail]

Contributors ✨

These are the people involved in the project. Find the meaning of the emoji keys here.

David Zwart 🐛 💻 🚧 📓	Maurice Kevenaar 🛡️ 🚧 🤔	Tobias 🤔 🚧	tideline3d 🐛 🤔	WindArrow3d 🐛 💵 🤔 📓 📦	Lucian Chapar 🐛	Dumnersm580 📖 🤔
tophattwaffle 🐛 🤔	rmhenn 🤔 🐛	cyrixdx4 🐛	doucettom 🐛 🤔	Callum 🤔	bharvey88 🐛 🚇 📦	Mikec78660 🤔

Sponsors

Please consider sponsoring FDM Monster to help this project! You can find the Github Sponsorship Tiers here.

Thanks to the following parties for their financial support:

Tier 4	Tier 3	Tier 2	Tier 1	One Time
	WindArrow3d		doucettom	th3dstudio

Contribute

Feel like joining in as a developer or do you have a quick fix? Great! Please read the CONTRIBUTING file.

Development Progress

• [x] 🚀 Docker amd64 image
• [x] 🛡️ MongoDB 5 & 6 support
• [x] 🚀 Quick copy paste of FDM Monster printers
• [x] 🛡️ Complete API test coverage >80% (now at 80.5%)
• [x] 🚀 Floor management
• [x] Auto-clean old OctoPrint files (opt-in and configurable)
• [x] 🚀 Windows and Linux Service
• [x] Printer completion/failure tracking (with statistics page)
• [x] 🔌 Raspberry Pi image
• [x] 🚀 Documentation
• [x] Printer placement using drag n drop
• [ ] 🔌 FDM Connector - MQTT autodiscovery
• [ ] 🚀 Chocolatey package (Windows install)
• [ ] 🛡️ Frontend user and basic role management
• [ ] Klipper/OctoKlipper (and MoonRaker/Fluidd/Mainsail API integration)
• [ ] 🚀 Plugin system (preparation work is ready)
• [ ] Support for OctoPrint 2.0.0 (when it comes out)

License

FDM Monster is licensed with AGPL-3.0. For details, please consult the LICENSE file.

Historical Note

This project has been forked from OctoFarm at September 2021 when I ended as a contributor to this project.