3D printing needs STL format. Any 3D modeling or CAD software that can output STL can be made to work as a source for this. One thing though, all the 3D slicer software assumes you're working in millimeters. That's due to the original scanning laser and vat of resin 3D printers only being able to do tiny things, and the guys who created the STL format never thought about anyone ever wanting to use such giant units as centimeters, let alone inches.
I use Caligari trueSpace 6.6. I can work in millimeters or meters and the resulting print is exactly the same size. If I try any other units, it does not print the right size. On Monday, April 3, 2017, 9:10:07 PM MDT, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:On Tuesday 04 April 2017 02:51:22 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > I wonder if they've heard about lost PLA casting? One off and short > runs without needing to make expensive, reusable patterns, plus the > ability to do casting shapes impossible with patterns that must be > removable from a sand mold, could be a money maker for the foundry. > 'Course they'd have to get and learn to use a 3D printing setup. That looks like something I could do, if I had a big enough printer and could learn how to do the 3d model to feed the slicer software for the printer. I'm thinking of the belt guards in particular which would need at least one dimension in the 250mm by 100 by 100 range. Can we slice and print from a sketchup file, or do I had to learn freecad? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
