Thanks Thomas. I'd appreciate the feedback. I think you'll be underwhelmed-- it doesnt really do anything more than your slicers do. It does produce a kind of cool svg file, but the files' not particularly impressive either.
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Thomas Paviot <thomas.pav...@free.fr>wrote: > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pythonocc-users mailing list > > Pythonocc-users@gna.org > > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pythonocc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonocc-users mailing list > Pythonocc-users@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/pythonocc-users >
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