fix: 3mf model preview default to proper solid

backend/src/dto.ts

@@ -159,10 +159,16 @@ function plateThumbUrl(plateId: string): string | null {
   return `/plate/${plateId}/thumb.jpg?v=${mtime}`;
 }
 
-function previewGlbUrl(plateId: string): string | null {
+function previewGlbUrl(plate: Plate): string | null {
-  if (!modelPreviewGlbExists(plateId)) return null;
+  if (!modelPreviewGlbExists(plate.id)) {
-  const mtime = fs.statSync(modelPreviewGlbPath(plateId)).mtimeMs;
+    // Still hand out the URL for a 3MF with no (current-version) cache yet: requesting it is
-  return `/plate/${plateId}/preview.glb?v=${mtime}`;
+    // what kicks off generation (see routes/plates.ts's self-heal), and the viewer falls back to
+    // the live parser on the 404. Returning null here would mean nothing ever requests it, so a
+    // plate that predates the cache (or a cache-format bump) would never get one.
+    return plate.filename.toLowerCase().endsWith(".3mf") ? `/plate/${plate.id}/preview.glb` : null;
+  }
+  const mtime = fs.statSync(modelPreviewGlbPath(plate.id)).mtimeMs;
+  return `/plate/${plate.id}/preview.glb?v=${mtime}`;
 }
 
 export function toPlateOut(printId: string, plate: Plate): PlateOut {
@@ -175,7 +181,7 @@ export function toPlateOut(printId: string, plate: Plate): PlateOut {
     size: plate.size,
     url: `/print/${printId}/plate/${plate.id}/file/${encodeURIComponent(plate.filename)}`,
     thumb_url: plateThumbUrl(plate.id),
-    preview_glb_url: previewGlbUrl(plate.id),
+    preview_glb_url: previewGlbUrl(plate),
   };
 }
 

backend/src/services/modelPreviewCache.ts

@@ -524,13 +524,14 @@ async function buildGlbGroup(parsed: ParsedModel): Promise<import("three").Group
       if (!objectData) continue;
       for (const mesh of objectData.meshes) {
         const positioned = item.transform ? applyAffineToVertices(mesh.vertices, item.transform) : mesh.vertices;
-        // 3MF: X right, Y back, Z up -> three.js: X right, Y up, Z forward (Y/Z swap, no sign
+        // 3MF Z-up -> three.js Y-up as a rotation, (x, y, z) -> (x, z, -y) -- kept identical to
-        // flip) -- kept identical to bambuThreeMf.ts's createGeometryFromMesh.
+        // bambuThreeMf.ts's createGeometryFromMesh (see there for why it can't be a plain swap).
+        // Changing this changes every cached GLB: bump PREVIEW_FORMAT_VERSION.
         const swapped = new Float32Array(positioned.length);
         for (let i = 0; i < positioned.length; i += 3) {
           swapped[i] = positioned[i];
           swapped[i + 1] = positioned[i + 2];
-          swapped[i + 2] = positioned[i + 1];
+          swapped[i + 2] = -positioned[i + 1];
         }
         const geometry = new THREE.BufferGeometry();
         geometry.setAttribute("position", new THREE.BufferAttribute(swapped, 3));
@@ -587,7 +588,17 @@ async function buildGlbGroup(parsed: ParsedModel): Promise<import("three").Group
 
 // ---- Cache path helpers (same shape as printService.ts's plateThumbPath/plateThumbExists) -----
 
+// Part of the cache filename, so a change to what buildGlbGroup produces (v2: the Z-up -> Y-up
+// conversion became a rotation instead of a mirroring swap) makes every older GLB a cache miss
+// and gets it regenerated on next view, rather than serving stale geometry forever.
+const PREVIEW_FORMAT_VERSION = 2;
+
 export function modelPreviewGlbPath(plateId: string): string {
+  return path.join(MODEL_PREVIEWS, `${plateId}.v${PREVIEW_FORMAT_VERSION}.glb`);
+}
+
+/** Pre-versioning filename (v1) -- removed once its replacement is written. */
+function legacyModelPreviewGlbPath(plateId: string): string {
   return path.join(MODEL_PREVIEWS, `${plateId}.glb`);
 }
 
@@ -633,6 +644,7 @@ export async function generateModelPreviewGlb(plateId: string, srcPath: string):
     await fs.writeFile(tmp, buf);
     await fs.rename(tmp, dest);
     await fs.rm(modelPreviewErrorPath(plateId), { force: true });
+    await fs.rm(legacyModelPreviewGlbPath(plateId), { force: true });
   } catch (err) {
     console.error(`Model preview generation failed for plate ${plateId}:`, err);
     await fs.writeFile(modelPreviewErrorPath(plateId), String(err)).catch(() => undefined);

backend/tests/modelPreviewCache.test.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { generateModelPreviewGlb, modelPreviewGlbExists, modelPreviewGlbPath } f
 
 // A hand-built 2-object/2-extruder/2-plate Bambu-style .3mf, small enough to commit as test
 // data inline rather than shipping a binary fixture file. Exercises the same fast regex-based
-// mesh extraction, extruder/plate resolution, and affine-transform + Y/Z-swap math the real
+// mesh extraction, extruder/plate resolution, and affine-transform + Z-up->Y-up rotation math the real
 // (huge) repro file that motivated this feature goes through.
 const MODEL_XML = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <model xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/3dmanufacturing/core/2015/02" unit="millimeter">
@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ async function buildWrapperFixture3mf(destPath: string): Promise<void> {
   ]);
 }
 
+// Vertex positions as plain numbers. `+ 0` turns the -0 the Z-up -> Y-up rotation produces for
+// every vertex at 3MF y=0 (z = -y) into 0, which toEqual would otherwise treat as different.
+function positionsOf(mesh: any): number[] {
+  return Array.from(mesh.geometry.attributes.position.array as ArrayLike<number>, v => v + 0);
+}
+
 describe("modelPreviewCache", () => {
   let fixturePath: string;
   const plateId = `test-fixture-${Date.now()}`;
@@ -198,7 +204,7 @@ describe("modelPreviewCache", () => {
       if (obj.isMesh) {
         meshes[obj.name] = {
           color: `#${obj.material.color.getHexString()}`,
-          positions: Array.from(obj.geometry.attributes.position.array),
+          positions: positionsOf(obj),
         };
       }
     });
@@ -207,10 +213,11 @@ describe("modelPreviewCache", () => {
     expect(meshes["extruder-0"].color.toLowerCase()).toBe("#00b800");
     expect(meshes["extruder-1"].color.toLowerCase()).toBe("#ff0000");
 
-    // Object 1: identity transform, then the fixed Y/Z swap (3MF X,Y,Z -> three.js X,Z,Y).
+    // Object 1: identity transform, then the Z-up -> Y-up rotation (3MF x,y,z -> three.js x,z,-y).
-    expect(meshes["extruder-0"].positions).toEqual([0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 10]);
+    // A plain swap (x,z,y) would mirror the model and flip its triangle winding.
-    // Object 2: +50 X translation applied in 3MF space before the same swap.
+    expect(meshes["extruder-0"].positions).toEqual([0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, 0, 0, -10]);
-    expect(meshes["extruder-1"].positions).toEqual([50, 0, 0, 70, 0, 0, 50, 0, 20]);
+    // Object 2: +50 X translation applied in 3MF space before the same rotation.
+    expect(meshes["extruder-1"].positions).toEqual([50, 0, 0, 70, 0, 0, 50, 0, -20]);
 
     void THREE; // imported only to force-load three before GLTFLoader in some module graphs
   });
@@ -263,13 +270,13 @@ describe("modelPreviewCache -- internal <component> references", () => {
     const meshes: Record<string, { positions: number[] }> = {};
     gltf.scene.traverse((obj: any) => {
       if (obj.isMesh) {
-        meshes[obj.name] = { positions: Array.from(obj.geometry.attributes.position.array) };
+        meshes[obj.name] = { positions: positionsOf(obj) };
       }
     });
 
     expect(Object.keys(meshes)).toEqual(["extruder-0"]);
     // Object 1's vertices, translated by the component's own +5 X transform (build item itself
-    // is identity), then the fixed Y/Z swap.
+    // is identity), then the Z-up -> Y-up rotation.
-    expect(meshes["extruder-0"].positions).toEqual([5, 0, 0, 15, 0, 0, 5, 0, 10]);
+    expect(meshes["extruder-0"].positions).toEqual([5, 0, 0, 15, 0, 0, 5, 0, -10]);
   });
 });

frontend/src/utils/bambuThreeMf.ts

@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@
 // a single imported/uploaded 3MF here always stays one Plate, its internal plates are a purely
 // client-side rendering/browsing concept) and to a filament/extruder index; Metadata/
 // project_settings.config carries the filament_colour palette. The coordinate swap in
-// createGeometryFromMesh below is kept identical to the original (a Y/Z swap with no sign flip) --
+// createGeometryFromMesh below already bakes in the Z-up -> Y-up rotateX(-90deg) that Thingport's
-// Thingport's own STL/OBJ/STEP loaders use a rotateX(-90deg) instead, which is not the same
+// STL/OBJ/STEP loaders apply as an object rotation, so callers must not rotate this output again.
-// transform (it negates one axis), so callers must not apply that rotation to this loader's output.
 import * as THREE from "three";
 import { mergeGeometries } from "three/examples/jsm/utils/BufferGeometryUtils.js";
 
@@ -501,16 +500,17 @@ export async function loadCachedBambuGlb(url: string): Promise<CachedBambuGlb |
 
 function createGeometryFromMesh(mesh: MeshData): THREE.BufferGeometry {
   const geometry = new THREE.BufferGeometry();
-  // 3MF: X right, Y back, Z up -> three.js: X right, Y up, Z forward. This is a Y/Z swap with
+  // 3MF: X right, Y back, Z up -> three.js: X right, Y up, Z toward the viewer, i.e.
-  // no sign flip -- NOT the same transform as the rotateX(-90deg) used to convert STL/OBJ/STEP
+  // (x, y, z) -> (x, z, -y): the same rotateX(-90deg) loadObjectFromAsset applies to STL/OBJ/STEP,
-  // (that maps 3MF-Y to -Z, mirroring a Bambu 3MF's chirality). Kept as the original per-vertex
+  // baked per-vertex here (loadObjectFromAsset skips 3MF so it isn't applied twice). It must stay
-  // swap rather than a whole-object rotation so it matches bambuddy's validated orientation
+  // a rotation: a plain Y/Z swap (no sign flip) is a mirror, which reverses every triangle's
-  // exactly; loadObjectFromAsset's centralized rotation is skipped for 3MF for this reason.
+  // winding -- front faces get culled, so models render inside-out/see-through, and mirrored.
+  // Keep identical to backend/src/services/modelPreviewCache.ts's buildGlbGroup.
   const positions = new Float32Array(mesh.vertices.length);
   for (let i = 0; i < mesh.vertices.length; i += 3) {
     positions[i] = mesh.vertices[i];
     positions[i + 1] = mesh.vertices[i + 2];
-    positions[i + 2] = mesh.vertices[i + 1];
+    positions[i + 2] = -mesh.vertices[i + 1];
   }
   geometry.setAttribute("position", new THREE.BufferAttribute(positions, 3));
   geometry.setIndex(mesh.triangles);