3D Builder
I have been trying to find an app like Microsoft's 3D Builder. It allows to
to add multiple stl files and move/size each stl object in the design. I
need something like this but with a good interface, I really dislike the 3D
Builder interface. Anyone know of an open source app of any kind like this?
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On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:11 AM, fractorr fractorr@gmail.com wrote:
I have been trying to find an app like Microsoft's 3D Builder. It allows to
to add multiple stl files and move/size each stl object in the design. I
need something like this but with a good interface, I really dislike the 3D
Builder interface. Anyone know of an open source app of any kind like this?
From the top of my head, nothing Open Source.
What are you trying to achieve with such a tool btw.? Importing, moving and resizing STL files sounds like a very limited feature set, unless your goal is to manually lay out parts for 3D printing..
-Marius
That is exactly what I am wanting to do. I have an SCAD library that I
created that generates several hundred SCAD files of various shapes and
various sizes and I want to lay a bunch of them together for 3D printing.
Would just be easier to do with a visual app, I have made a couple with an
SCAD file but it takes a while to do, I then used 3D builder and it was
easier to make a design but the interface for 3D builder is horrible.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 8:20 AM, kintel [via OpenSCAD] <
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On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:11 AM, fractorr <[hidden email]
I have been trying to find an app like Microsoft's 3D Builder. It
allows to
to add multiple stl files and move/size each stl object in the design.
I
need something like this but with a good interface, I really dislike the
3D
Builder interface. Anyone know of an open source app of any kind like
this?
From the top of my head, nothing Open Source.
What are you trying to achieve with such a tool btw.? Importing, moving
and resizing STL files sounds like a very limited feature set, unless your
goal is to manually lay out parts for 3D printing..
-Marius
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Wouldn’t your 3D print preparation software (Cura, Slic3r etc.) have all this functionality?
-Marius
On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:28 AM, fractorr fractorr@gmail.com wrote:
That is exactly what I am wanting to do. I have an SCAD library that I created that generates several hundred SCAD files of various shapes and various sizes and I want to lay a bunch of them together for 3D printing. Would just be easier to do with a visual app, I have made a couple with an SCAD file but it takes a while to do, I then used 3D builder and it was easier to make a design but the interface for 3D builder is horrible.
I have recently tried 3D builder. I like the Cura interface more (although
I used it first, and extensively, so maybe that's just preference).
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Marius Kintel marius@kintel.net wrote:
Wouldn’t your 3D print preparation software (Cura, Slic3r etc.) have all
this functionality?
-Marius
On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:28 AM, fractorr fractorr@gmail.com wrote:
That is exactly what I am wanting to do. I have an SCAD library that I
created that generates several hundred SCAD files of various shapes and
various sizes and I want to lay a bunch of them together for 3D printing.
Would just be easier to do with a visual app, I have made a couple with an
SCAD file but it takes a while to do, I then used 3D builder and it was
easier to make a design but the interface for 3D builder is horrible.
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The problem is that I don't have a 3D printer, I was going to use a service
like sculpteo.
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Wouldn’t your 3D print preparation software (Cura, Slic3r etc.) have all
this functionality?
-Marius
On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:28 AM, fractorr <[hidden email]
That is exactly what I am wanting to do. I have an SCAD library that I
created that generates several hundred SCAD files of various shapes and
various sizes and I want to lay a bunch of them together for 3D printing.
Would just be easier to do with a visual app, I have made a couple with an
SCAD file but it takes a while to do, I then used 3D builder and it was
easier to make a design but the interface for 3D builder is horrible.
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You can do all of this in Slic3r, which is open source. You use the Add
command to add each STL file to the platform. You move the objects around
using direct manipulation. You can scale an object, uniformly or
non-uniformly, using the Scale command in the right mouse button menu. You
can export the resulting array of objects to either STL or AMF. You'll need
to enable expert mode; some of the above commands are disabled by default.
On 22 January 2016 at 11:11, fractorr fractorr@gmail.com wrote:
I have been trying to find an app like Microsoft's 3D Builder. It allows
to
to add multiple stl files and move/size each stl object in the design. I
need something like this but with a good interface, I really dislike the 3D
Builder interface. Anyone know of an open source app of any kind like
this?
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I downloaded Slic3r and it looks like this will do what I want, just need
to learn how to use t properly.
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You can do all of this in Slic3r, which is open source. You use the Add
command to add each STL file to the platform. You move the objects around
using direct manipulation. You can scale an object, uniformly or
non-uniformly, using the Scale command in the right mouse button menu. You
can export the resulting array of objects to either STL or AMF. You'll need
to enable expert mode; some of the above commands are disabled by default.
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I have been trying to find an app like Microsoft's 3D Builder. It allows
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to add multiple stl files and move/size each stl object in the design. I
need something like this but with a good interface, I really dislike the
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Builder interface. Anyone know of an open source app of any kind like
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You can also do this using MakerWare, which is not open source. I think the
GUI is nicer than Slic3r for this particular work flow: scaling is done
using direct manipulation, and moving things around is nicer (Slic3r
recenters the group after each operation). You can import and export STL
(no AMF support).
On 22 January 2016 at 11:53, doug moen doug@moens.org wrote:
You can do all of this in Slic3r, which is open source. You use the Add
command to add each STL file to the platform. You move the objects around
using direct manipulation. You can scale an object, uniformly or
non-uniformly, using the Scale command in the right mouse button menu. You
can export the resulting array of objects to either STL or AMF. You'll need
to enable expert mode; some of the above commands are disabled by default.
On 22 January 2016 at 11:11, fractorr fractorr@gmail.com wrote:
I have been trying to find an app like Microsoft's 3D Builder. It allows
to
to add multiple stl files and move/size each stl object in the design. I
need something like this but with a good interface, I really dislike the
3D
Builder interface. Anyone know of an open source app of any kind like
this?
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On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:44 AM, fractorr fractorr@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is that I don't have a 3D printer, I was going to use a service like sculpteo.
Having never used Sculpteo, I would expect this to be one of their core UI tools. Looks like there is some room for innovation in that domain :)
Doug’s suggestion to use Slic3r is good. Cura can also export the build plate as STL.
-Marius