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Recommendation for G Code Generator

Posted by keffin

keffin

Recommendation for G Code Generator
January 19, 2012 12:49PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 19

Hey guys,

I am pulling my hair out trying to work with Skeinforge 35. The settings are so esoteric, and some work and some just don't. It is quite frustrating.

Does anybody have recommendations which G Code generator is easy to use and stable?

Thanks,
Keff

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glyn

Re: Recommendation for G Code Generator
January 20, 2012 11:36AM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 82

Try slic3r.

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keffin

Re: Recommendation for G Code Generator
January 21, 2012 12:07PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 19

Thanx Glyn,

I downloaded it but found it did not interface with Skeinforge. Anyways I found out you are using it with Repsnapper and I will try that. From first impressions it looks much user friendly.

K

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glyn

Re: Recommendation for G Code Generator
January 21, 2012 04:19PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 82

Actually the two programs I am now using are slic3r and printrun, the printrun binary for windows is here printrun

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romscraj

Re: Recommendation for G Code Generator
January 28, 2012 03:17AM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 68

Slick3r is cool especially the fancy algorithms.

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glyn

Re: Recommendation for G Code Generator
February 04, 2012 07:00AM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 82

Slick3r is good but I have found that it does not work with some complicated stl files, I have been persevering with skeinforge and got it to work on the files that slick3r could not handle.

As an example I created some text in sketchup and slick3r would not process that.