Teaching my #makerbot to write in 3D print… Having fun… Tricky though.
I am writing a gcode exporter for Blender. (a very hacky one)
pretty neat and a good resolution
I thought blender already knew how to make stl files. And from there, you could load that stl file into any number of apps to get gcode.
Hi Steven… You are correct, but I’m going down a different path… I am actually creating the tool path in 3d in Blender. So… There’s no slicer involved at all… I create all xyz locations for the printer head as verts connected by edges (maybe I’ll switch to bezier curves later).
Nicely done. I really like this idea!
I presume you are doing this in Python? Will you make the source available?
Damian, it is already on-line… though… I didn’t say “hacky” for no reason… I don’t recommend using the gcode exporter any time soon (there’s no tutorial/documentation yet either)… but it is in here: https://code.google.com/p/macouno/