Hi Dave,

Such a good news that you achieved your slice application. Thanks for 
sharing your cade, I'll test it in a few hours!

Thomas

Cowdens a écrit :
> Hello, everyone:
>  
> I have finally finished a halfway decent implementation of my slicer, 
> and posted it on the wiki here:
>  
> http://www.pythonocc.org/wiki/index.php/DavesSlicerProject
>  
> Thank you to Jelle and Thomas for their help.
>  
> This script will accept a STEP or STL file, and slice it into 
> layers.   This script is not very impressive for those familiar with 
> Occ, especially since there is already some slicer code out there.  It 
> does have a few interesting features, though:
>  
>
>     * It uses solid operations (BrepAlgoAPI_Cut ) intead of
>       BRepAlgoAPI_Section.  this runs more slowly, but makes it easier
>       operate on the resulting shape as a solid.  i believe this will
>       be useful later, for example so that i can compute the volume of
>       the resulting solid , etc. 
>     * It produces a 'slice' file format that is compatible with a very
>       elaborate set of python scripts used by Reprappers to create
>       toolpaths for the slice.  This format is based on SVG-- it has
>       the unique and interesting property that the file is both human
>       viewable, and machine readable.
>     * Most of the code in this example does the task of converting a
>       face to an svg path element-- a non-trivial amount of code as it
>       turns out
>
> I hope to include this code into a modified version of 
> interactiveViewer, which could be the basis for a very good quality 
> rapid prototyping tool.
>  
> If you are interested, here's the forum where i posted the tool for 
> the use by Reprappers:
>  
> http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?12,20013,23357
>  
> There is much work left, but for now it has succeeded in letting me 
> slice STEP and really bad STL files, and then successfully generate 
> toolpaths for use on a Reprap machine
>  
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