Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Sun Jan 20 15:23:54 CST 2013
Thank you, Jim -- I will probably have to wait till #d Printers will become speedier :) -- Shamil Суббота, 19 января 2013, 20:22 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: >Ha ha ha. > >Wow that Kitchen is incredible. Do you have any idea how long the 3D >printing would take? My friend produced a set of two helical cut gears in >plastic, for his electric car and it took his printer over 3 hours to run. > >1. The program that my friend uses to design his CAD objects is called >OpenSCAD at http://www.openscad.org/ and again you have to follow terminal >instructions to install it on your Ubuntu computer. After designing graphic >and it looks good on the screen you can save the object as a STL file. > >2. To translate the CAD STL file to CNC (Computer Numeric Control) code, >which is standard for all robotic or automated machinery programming, you >have to install and use a program called Pronterface at >https://github.com/kliment/Printrun . You just download the ZIP file from >GitHub and if my memory serves me well, on you Ubuntu Linux box, it will >self-extract and install. (If this is not the case there are instructions >within the zip file which will explain everything) The resulting file is >G-Code which is then printed to your printers USB...something like 2500 >baud...and so on...there are text files explaining it all. The resultant >control file is written in simple text so it can be edited directly so you >can change the temperature (top line is text file) of the extruding >plastic...different types need different temperatures. (Interesting, enough >the Pronterface is written in Python. It is amazing where it is being used.) > > >There are some other things to consider but it is most what is needed. If >you decide to go that route I can give you my friend's email and you guys >can go from there. > >Jim <<< skipped >>> >