stl2ngc

The stl2ngc program converts an STL file to LinuxCNC compatible G-code.

Clone, build, install and run

First, install OpenCAMLib, see: https://github.com/aewallin/opencamlib

git clone https://github.com/aewallin/opencamlib && cd opencamlib
mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../src && make -j4
sudo make install
sudo cp libocl.so.* /usr/lib

Next, checkout stl2ngc from git and run make and sudo make install:

git clone https://github.com/koppi/stl2ngc && cd stl2ngc
make
sudo make install

To convert example.stl to example.ngc run:

cat example.stl | stl2ngc > example.ngc

Demo

See Wiki.

FAQ

• This is an early release, expect errors and missing features.

  Please fork the repo.

• No Gui? - Yes, only command-line for now.

Author

• Jakob Flierl - koppi