Closed WesGilster closed 8 years ago
Sorry to bother but I'm unsure what you're trying to say about that 2d platforms... Would you mind to explain?
2d files(like text files) have to be printed on some sort of a platform. Currently I force the user to print on a rectangle with curved edges(cirtangle). That seems pretty restrictive. By adding 1 additional shape you can make a keychain, Christmas ornament, door hanger or whatever... Imagine what you could make if your platform could change dynamically. Artists would have a hay day on a Mandelbrot alone...
Actually I might implement this weekend I kind of want to try that out...
Sounds very cool Wes!
Interesting, I have been experimenting with 3D printed letter press plates with a friend of mine who has a letter press (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFzZK_Ftas). This presents a simplified way to quickly layout some text and print a plate.
That's a really cool idea! I built this for making a stencil and stamp kit for my daughter with different fonts. Did you have to make a 3d file out of all of that before you printed it? That must have been a bit painful...
Maybe you weren't aware, but you can also upload gifs/jpgs/pngs as well. That's probably more up your alley since you don't want to print plain text. I had envisioned that people would want to use it to print photos, so unfortunately I put those files through a edge detection algorithm. I certainly could make that optional though.
The image was supplied to me as an Illustrator file, which I converted to SVG, imported into Autodesk Fusion 360, and the extruded along with a base. It was somewhat annoying at first because there were a bunch of non-watertight vectors (even in 2D) which had to be fixed to make it form a correct solid shape in 3D. PNG input is something that I'll definitely try once I get back to printing. The two main projects taking up my time right now are the Photonic3D build and test system, and integrating the Autodesk Print manager with the Titan 1 via Photonic3D. :)
My that would be annoying. Let me know if you need anything done to better integrate with Autodesk print manager.
I'm testing this now in development. I've exposed the underlying offline screen buffer so that you can manipulate it with Javascript. The default implementation is just a cirtangle as I described above:
var extrusionX = printImage.getWidth();
var extrusionY = printImage.getHeight();
buildPlatformGraphics.fillRoundRect(centerX - (extrusionX / 2), centerY - (extrusionY / 2), extrusionX, extrusionY, 50, 50);
I'm pretty excited to start trying out some fractals in 3d. A large part of this change was to compute the platform in parallel to the exposure + gcode. I'm hoping that makes allot of this computation time invisible during a print.
Maybe it will be nice to fill in a standard platform calcutlator, not all our users want to make the code them selves I suppose ;)! But we can put this in the printer profile right?
This already fills in the platform calculator a simple round rect(cirtangle) when creating a new printer:
Code is in here:
org.area515.resinprinter.services.PrinterService.createTemplatePrinter(String, String, String, double, double, double)
Feel free to reopen if there was something else you were looking for.
As I start to add support for more file types I think it would be better to allow pluggable 2d platforms to print on rather than a simple cirtangle. That would add quite a bit of variety when printing 2d files.