Printrbot: Your Very Own 3D Printer

Re:Printrbot: Your Very Own 3D Printer by bborud on Sunday November 20, 2011 @05:50PM (#3259251)

what I'm longing for is a good G-code generator that is affordable, runs on my Linux or OSX, can generate toolpaths for milling as well as 3D printing and can work with files from Sketchup.

(Most makers I know don't use Windows and I think there is a huge opportunity for a polished product that will run on either Linux or OSX)

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Re:Printrbot: Your Very Own 3D Printer by Kliment on Sunday November 20, 2011 @06:44PM (#3259380)

Slic3r is an interesting project that goes in that direction. Only for printing though. You can feed it an STL exported from sketchup and it will generate a toolpath. And of course it's all on github and completely free and opensource and multiplatform.

The major problem with it is that sketchup is a mesh editor, not a solid editor, so it sometimes exports geometrically impossible (non-manifold) objects.

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Re:Printrbot: Your Very Own 3D Printer by windsurfer on Sunday November 20, 2011 @06:00PM (#3259274)

FYI: sketchup doesn't support linux yet.

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Re:Printrbot: Your Very Own 3D Printer by bborud on Monday November 21, 2011 @05:07PM (#3263013)

I know, but since I will be using either EMC2 on Linux or Grbl on an Arduino to run the G-code, I can live with CAM software that runs on Linux.

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