On Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:38, afogassa wrote:
Hi All,
I'm thinking about building a 3d printer, but got stock on the
software to generate the slices from .stl file.
boxford Rapidpro can do it( like the demo, and it costs around L
495.00 ),but the countour layers should be cut with a vinil cutter and
then assemble the model by hand, no, no mistake here, I realy wrote BY
HAND ( think about those 100's of layers :-( )
Has anyone try it ? or know of a software to slice stl and output
the slices as a bitmap so it can be printed?
I'm geting tired of using my router to make those thin wall
prototypes, it takes a lot of time to get the parts out.
It would be nice to have a 3d printer, just let it printing and go
do something else with the router.
Fogassa
Check out reprap.org and the associated software here, which does stl slicing:
It does this internally, and would take a tiny bit of tweaking to generate the
tool paths you want.
I shall be happy to answer any questions you might have, on-list or off.
Regards,
-Sebastien Bailard
reprap.org - self-reproducing 3D printer project
