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Slice directly from AMF files! - Freature Request

Open X3msnake opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

How hard would it be to be able to slice directly from a Step File Master @NardJ ?

As discussed with @rsilvers129 this would be a awsome feature that not even the payed slicers have

Some ideas https://github.com/tpaviot/pythonocc-demos http://www.pythonocc.org/

https://pypi.org/project/aocxchange/

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Importing_cad_STEP_file_into_python

UPDATE: as per rsilvers and nard replyes makes more sense to support AMF format instead

X3msnake avatar Jan 02 '19 16:01 X3msnake

For future reference: As I understand a step file (e.g. example contains drawing directives like curves, points, lines etc.. These need to be converted to mesh (triangles). To write this by hand is quite an undertaking.

A python library like PythonOCC as you mentioned, would make it a lot easier. (It also seems possible to use FreeCad to convert a step file. )

NardJ avatar Jan 03 '19 17:01 NardJ

https://www.sculpteo.com/en/glossary/amf-definition/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_manufacturing_file_format

rsilvers129 avatar Jan 03 '19 17:01 rsilvers129