Follow

3D Printer Babbling 

Reprap-based 3D printers speak a dialect of gcode, which CNC machines have been using for decades. It's a human-parseable series of control instructions and locations - point to point in 3space, extruding filament along the way. The more complicated the object being printed, the bigger the file. The rings were a few hundred kilobytes.

Tonight, I'm trying a 30mb file generated off a MakeHuman model. I don't expect it to work, per se: I do hope the failure is informative. n.n

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Awoo Space

Awoo.space is a Mastodon instance where members can rely on a team of moderators to help resolve conflict, and limits federation with other instances using a specific access list to minimize abuse.

While mature content is allowed here, we strongly believe in being able to choose to engage with content on your own terms, so please make sure to put mature and potentially sensitive content behind the CW feature with enough description that people know what it's about.

Before signing up, please read our community guidelines. While it's a very broad swath of topics it covers, please do your best! We believe that as long as you're putting forth genuine effort to limit harm you might cause – even if you haven't read the document – you'll be okay!