Hi Daniel, The 3D printer I have is Prusa i3 mk1, what's in a principle RepRap-based open hardware, working as follows: 1. Export from CAD to STL format. Solid CAD modelers are the best, mesh modelers like SketchUp often produce errors with export of more complicated models and needing repairs of the triangles in STL in programs like NetFabb. 2. Slicing the STL models to create g-code in programs like Sli3er (I use it), Simplify3D or Cura. The slicing program adds also the specific parameters of the printer and printing conditions to the g-code (bed and extruder temperature, motors speed and acceleration, extruder speed and retraction, model infill and supports, layer thickness and lot of other things). 3. G-code is saved on SD-card and uploaded to the printer's firmware (Marvin), which controls MiniRAMBO board driving motors.
In my opinion, BRL-CAD does not have to replace the slicing software, which is quite complicated and specialized. Direct g-gcode export would thus not be necessary for 3D printing. An error-free export g-stl would be enough for using BRL-CAD with any type of a 3D printer. Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Roßberg [mailto:danielmrossb...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 11:33 PM To: BRL-CAD Developer Mailing List <brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [brlcad-devel] Newbie to BRL-CAD 2016-11-13 22:26 GMT+01:00 Michal Hanus <mikeha...@seznam.cz>: > Hi Daniel, > > Great hint! It works. I could not find the pscale command anywhere in the manuals or tutorials. > Are there any other similar functions for editing objects (correcting values for A, B, C, H, V etc. of primitives) that would work in the Archer's CLI? In principle yes, but... Even pscale isn't implemented for every primitive yet. See for the files starting with scale_ in src/libged. There are ptranslate and protate commands (the p is for primitive) but they support only very few primitives (see the corresponding translate_ and rotate_ files in src/libged, rotate_arb_face is a command of its own). For arb8s there are moe_arb_edge and move_arb_face. The whole thing is still in work. For a general solution see at the end of https://brlcad.org/wiki/Changing_the_properties_of_primitive_objects: TCL Commands. BTW, regarding your 3D printer: can you directly access it or only via the manufacturers software? Regards, Daniel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
