On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 06:04:40AM -0700, Jordan Brown wrote:

That's the simple approach to converting Gcode to SCAD.

Still some "processing" is required. How thick and wide a layer are
you depositing? That's detmined by the previous layer! Some
configuration would be required: For 1mm of extrusion distance, how
much volume of plastic is extruded?

Anyway, To get something realistic, much more processing would need to
be done: recognize outer peripherals and connect the dots. Simplify.

A much more non-trivial job than just assuming a .4 x .2mm extruded box
for every move-with-extrusion.

Roger. 

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On 7/21/2022 8:32 AM, Rogier Wolff wrote:

Yes.

It's hard (because of the data volume, but also because of the extrusion
characteristics you describe) to do a naïve job.

It's much harder (because of the need to recognize the overall shape of
the object) to do anything better.

I vaguely remember there is a program to go from gcode to STL but I can't
remember the name or if it is free.

On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 17:25, Jordan Brown openscad@jordan.maileater.net
wrote:

On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 17:51 +0100, nop head wrote:

Lots of hits on Google. Search "gcode to stl" (with quotes).