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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

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

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@..., "afogassa" <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

If you have Rhino you can use the command contour to produce lots of
outlines at regular intervals, it should be possible to write a script
or plug-in to do something with them.

Graham

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wrote:

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@..., "afogassa" <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

If you have Rhino you can use the command contour to produce lots

of

outlines at regular intervals, it should be possible to write a

script

or plug-in to do something with them.

Graham

I did that with Rhino, if I can write a script to out put the
countours in dxf layers than open those layers with Coreldraw run a
Visual basic script or macro to fill in each layer then print it.
have to work on how to write rhino scripts.

Thank's
Fogassa

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@..., "afogassa" <afogassa@...>

I did that with Rhino, if I can write a script to out put the
countours in dxf layers than open those layers with Coreldraw run a
Visual basic script or macro to fill in each layer then print it.
have to work on how to write rhino scripts.

Thank's
Fogassa

I can recommend the following tutorial on Rhinoscript, you can do more
than plain macros as it uses VB. It is also possible to create an
external VB program that accesses Rhino. When I played with it that
is what I did and it made user interaction much easier.



There are lots of functions for VBscripting that don't need the user
to intervene once the basic selection has been done which really helps
automation. I managed a sort of tool path creator and simulator but
it was only very basic and not very useful.

Graham