The color fields are intended for the high end printers. If the printer doesn’t need a CMYK color then it is ignored. I am telling you you need to read up on this topic before you argue about it.
@Nigel_Dickinson Realize that this API is not specific to FFF printers. It also is intended for the high end SLS and other systems. From your comments, i really don’t thin you understand what is going on.
You dont get it and new file type invented by them and DRM and then they will want everyone to use it. This is the point I say look what I said from the start. And you said no its taken you all that time to see what I said. So you believe a file format owned by big M is the best solution. Congrats you just proved you believe that corporate ideas are good for you and not just to make money. You are their target demographic a SHEEPOL.
@Nigel_Dickinson I never said it was the best solution. I am not for or against the file format. But the file format is not what is being discussed here. I am here to discuss the API. Please tell me how you are contributing to the community by calling me a sheep. I am trying to test drivers and for that you are insulting me. Please contribute and not just leach and slander.
Really I have I told you what they were doing you said no now you say yes. Get real if the need testers they should do it themselves its closed source and that mean your making more profit for them…so tell me are you following the crowd sheep style or are you doing good for everyone by not backing a corp who’s only aim is to push its own standards.
@Nigel_Dickinson this is a SDK that they are distributing to vendors. It allows you to make your own software to fit into the windows environment. I am changing some examples to make them work for a printrbot simple. In this respect I am the software archetect, not MS. I dont understand your logic. OpenSCAD is open-sourced and developed to work in a windows environment. Why can’t print drivers be the same? You have presented no evidence that Microsoft is pushing a standard, you have also presented no real logic to what the monetary advantage would be for owning the standard.
FYI STL is a file type developed by 3D systems for a closed source cad package. That is a corporate machine as well. What is your point here?
SDK is a licence package and you pay the big M. As for file types you can allow full access or not. Microsoft often only put in file types they dont need to licence and ignore the ones they do need to or support them badly to push their own file type. This is fact historically so tell me why not go to everyone open and closed hardware and software and sit down an talk about what’s needed rather than telling people.
And before you say they have, they haven’t. Your the only one pushing this the big M is good nobody else. Says a lot really and youve still taken 48hrs nearly to even answer stuff. Go back to your internet search and really dig up stuff and if Microsoft are not pushing stuff why develop anything for 3d printing.
They have even said open and semi open source is bad and must be stopped along with Apple. You really live in a dark dark cave.
@Nigel_Dickinson what ever, you still have not said anything about the sdk. I want to be able to print from cad. This sdk allows me move in that direction. The “Microsoft is evil” argument repeated over and over and the “you are a sheep” statements are indicators that you are only here to troll.
The Kinect sdk, is free and wonderful IMHO. But plug your ears and yell sheep and evil. I am out
Never said evil only that it wants your money for bad products and I’ll conceived ideas.
And the Kinect SDK came out after open source guys were doing projects with kinect, the big M covering its butt again after refusing to help people and back tracking to reclaim others glory. You once again shoot yourself in the foot.
Any cad file that goes to a slicer fails gets remeshed slices and you find a hole missing because it thought it shouldn’t be means automation just cost you time and money. See easy is not always best. Dumbing down just makes you dumb for believing its right every time. Thats why your a sheep you only think in a tunnel and not outside the walls of the tunnel.
@Nigel_Dickinson I don’t think you can read.
It is integrated with net fab to repair meshes before slicing.
And if you got a leaky cad and it fixes it wrong or doesn’t fix and errors … See you cannot read !!!
@Nigel_Dickinson How would you fix a “leaky CAD” Currently? My solutions is to send it to net fab, or cad better. the netfab solution is done automatically, CADing poorly is not unique to any OS.
But expecting it to do it as you want is poor and still doesn’t solve the problem of you stl being wrong or being interpreted right. So there you go you answered again that we dont need it all in one. Good sheepy your learning to think act and realise its a bad idea.
+Nigel Dickinson so your answer is that it probably can’t work so we shouldn’t try? That is the attitudes that most people had about 3d printing at home, cellular phones, computers, cloud storage, etc. They probably can’t work, so why even bother. The automation system probably can’t work so why even bother.
Your proving you lack of understanding again until repair software is fool proof its pointless. I see you take a step forward and fall back into the same old its got to be done. Now here’s a better idea how about a 3d printer board that can do it all in one…hang on the Raspberry Pi…see if windows works on that. See you really are a blind man in a world of wonders.
@Nigel_Dickinson the RPi doesn’t do it all in one. You still are still using the exact same stack that you would for printing on a computer (because that is what the Pi is). I have not seen a port of firmware to the RPi, i think that is because the toggle rate on the pins is quite low. If you have one, please let me know. I have a pi waiting for that aplication. I would love to run my printer directly from the os. But to my understanding there isn’t a RTOS for the pi yet. So it would not be safe or practical to run the printer with the PI directly.
The Pi is a computer. This is putting a computer between your computer and the printer. it isn’t integrating its abstracting.
To be clear, abstraction can be a good thing. often times it is a great thing. but it is not integration. Octoprint on the pi is abstraction. It is a good thing. but it is not even in the same work flow or idea chain as the 8.1API.
It is like comparing apples to oranges. Solutions for different problems, that being said the 8.1 AP does allow you to treat the printer as a network printer through the print management server. but now you plan on completely changing the subject. And then saying “you loose again” because you can’t come up with a valid reason to negate any of the claims i have made out side of “the man” and “sheep”.
No you want full integration there it is in Pi one box to do it all seems. You miss the point windows is for office work always had been always will be. Games are coming off the platform. Manufacturing programs are moving from it. Even office software is moving away from Microsoft. Do you not get it and you can link everything on a pi true integration but it’s you that misses the point. A little Java script to pass the stl to the slicer and then your in the same place as windows. Good luck with your windows is best as youve proved you lack of knowledge on Linux. You haven’t promoted one good reason for why the API is needed or good. And keep falling into proof argument…which you yourself cannot prove that the big M is a good thing. If the print manager server is so good why do printer manufacture’s produce their own programs that ignore it… Thanks for you lack of understanding and completed worship of if its big M. now go get your Walmart PC and your Apple/Samsung/windows phone and tell me how helpful all those items really are with their customer helpfulness.
I pointed out one, Print from CAD. You said no that wont work because… it wont work. I am still confused about why you don’t think printing from cad is a good idea. Also a simplified print chain for persons not of a techincal background, if that is not an acceptable answer then you come from an elitist background. Both are very good reason why this API is a good thing, weather it is on linux, windows, or mac i really don’t care. I want to print from cad, and i want a simplified work flow. That is what this is designed to do