On Tuesday 04 April 2017 06:22:26 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > 3D printing needs STL format. Any 3D modeling or CAD software that can > output STL can be made to work as a source for this. One thing though, > all the 3D slicer software assumes you're working in millimeters. > That's due to the original scanning laser and vat of resin 3D printers > only being able to do tiny things, and the guys who created the STL > format never thought about anyone ever wanting to use such giant units > as centimeters, let alone inches. > > I use Caligari trueSpace 6.6. I can work in millimeters or meters and > the resulting print is exactly the same size. If I try any other > units, it does not print the right size. > > On Monday, April 3, 2017, 9:10:07 PM MDT, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:On Tuesday 04 April 2017 02:51:22 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > > I wonder if they've heard about lost PLA casting? One off and short > > runs without needing to make expensive, reusable patterns, plus the > > ability to do casting shapes impossible with patterns that must be > > removable from a sand mold, could be a money maker for the foundry. > > 'Course they'd have to get and learn to use a 3D printing setup. > > That looks like something I could do, if I had a big enough printer > and could learn how to do the 3d model to feed the slicer software for > the printer. I'm thinking of the belt guards in particular which would > need at least one dimension in the 250mm by 100 by 100 range. > > Can we slice and print from a sketchup file, or do I had to learn > freecad?
Looks like sketchup has gone commercial, I'd have to buy a license to make it usefull. Back to Openscad I guess. It can export .stl's. Or claims it can. Thanks Gregg. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
