is this not just reinventing the wheel for the sake of it? what is the benefit of using lcnc for fff/fdm printer?
I am not trying to downplay the idea / application or lcnc or its capability. (dispite it may appear so) I ask because I run marlin (free) with octoprint (octopi) (again free) on a Bigtreetech-SKR 1.4 Turbo , with 5x TMC2209 stepper motor drives running as uart input. (about £70)... it runs 2x extruders and an XYZ 300x300x500 frame with a 230v heated bed. it's not like I can replace marlin with lcnc on that setup / board? so I'd need different hardware (at more cost and time to configure) and it will probably generate the same output using the same slicer. the acceleration is taken care of in the tmc2209 drives and is nothing to do with the slicer (I use cura (again free plus seems to meet my needs)) to speed up my prints I use a larger nozzle, given most of the stuff I have done has been biggish. not adverse to using lcnc, just not seeing an advantage in cost, time to build, assemble, programme or finished product. what am I missing? On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, 18:55 Chris Albertson, <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 99% of the "magic" in 3D printing happens in the slicer. All the printer > controller needs to do is move the steppers in a very stupid > way.Acceleration limits and such are all done in the slicer. Notice that > the g-code files for some parts are MILLIONS of lines of g-code that do > very tiny movements > > I still argue that the only thing LCNC lacks is "works out of the box". > > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 5:43 PM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 21:13, Bari <bari00...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > What are the missing desired or required features in LCNC for > > > controlling FFF/FDM printers? > > > > I have heard (but not tested) that extruder moves are not blended, so > > the motion is not as smooth as one might like. > > > > There might be something to be said for a G-code interpreter that used > > E as the extruder, and supported the other 3DP-specific codes. > > > > (LInuxCNC supports pluggable interpreters, this is doable) > > > > -- > > atp > > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > > lunatics." > > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
