On 07/14/2015 09:07 PM, bobc wrote:
There's a suggestion there that Marius added Export to CSG to make this
easier. It seems that printing from a CSG model was the "way of the future"
back then, but doesn't seem to have caught on.
I guess it hasn't because it's only easy at the first glance and the
benefit is quite limited for a big selection of models.
The article also says...
At the moment the supported OpenSCAD primitives are cubes, cylinders
(including frustums and cones), and spheres. I will add extruded polygons,
extruded imported DXFs, polyhedra, and imported STL files later (in that
order, which is also the order of difficulty of doing them...).
...and looking at the change history, that adding of more things never
happened. So the supported feature set is going to work for probably
3% of my own models.
There would be a number of nice benefits of using some higher level
interface between modeler and slicer (or more advanced file formats).
The most interesting one surely the possibility to retain the ideal
information for longer (e.g. leaving a circle a circle instead of
converting to a polygon early).
Getting this to work is not going to be easy, but it might happen
eventually. We'll see what the future brings :-).
ciao,
Torsten.
On 07/14/2015 09:07 PM, bobc wrote:
> RepRap Host Software, according to this blog post from 2011
> http://blog.reprap.org/2011/10/say-goodbye-to-unsightly-stl-triangle.html. I
> assume it still does.
>
Maybe, but I'd say this software is dead. It's not updated for 3 years
and https://reprappro.com/software/ does not even mention it.
> There's a suggestion there that Marius added Export to CSG to make this
> easier. It seems that printing from a CSG model was the "way of the future"
> back then, but doesn't seem to have caught on.
>
I guess it hasn't because it's only easy at the first glance and the
benefit is quite limited for a big selection of models.
The article also says...
> > At the moment the supported OpenSCAD primitives are cubes, cylinders
> > (including frustums and cones), and spheres. I will add extruded polygons,
> > extruded imported DXFs, polyhedra, and imported STL files later (in that
> > order, which is also the order of difficulty of doing them...).
...and looking at the change history, that adding of more things never
happened. So the supported feature set is going to work for probably
3% of my own models.
There would be a number of nice benefits of using some higher level
interface between modeler and slicer (or more advanced file formats).
The most interesting one surely the possibility to retain the ideal
information for longer (e.g. leaving a circle a circle instead of
converting to a polygon early).
Getting this to work is not going to be easy, but it might happen
eventually. We'll see what the future brings :-).
ciao,
Torsten.
