From: Jean-Christophe Bach <jc.bach@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 3D printers && Gentoo
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:52:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130704205208.GU10384@Morgoth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130704T182633-390@post.gmane.org>
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*> James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> [04.07.2013. @19:38:00 +0000]:
> Hello,
>
> Not sure how many folks are using 3D printers yet
> via Gentoo. If so your shared experiences are of keen
> interest to me.
>
> I did find these excellent resources [1].
>
> [1] http://www.makerbot.com/support/guides/design/
> [2] http://www.thingiverse.com/categories
Hi James,
I am using 3D printers. With friends, we created a makerspace
(fablab/hackerspace)[1] where we are building and using 3D printers (and
lots of other things). The main resource to build a 3D printer we use is
[2]. Thingiverse [3] is great to find new 3D models, but you can also
create your own ones. For that, I am using OpenSCAD (in Portage,
media-gfx/openscap). It is also possible to use Blender with an ad hoc
plugin to export to .STL files. On other systems, there are proprietary
software, but I do not use them (sketchup seems to be very easy to use).
A friend (Emmanuel Gilloz aka watsdesign on Thingiverse[4]) designed the
Foldarap [5] which is a folding RepRap (it is amazing!). He crowdfunded
it a first time [6] but there was too many demands. Then he crowdfunded
a second time [7], and I think it is not yet finished.
With a colleague, we bought 2 RepRapPro Mendel [8] for the Computer
Science department where we teach. And today I tried to calibrate one.
But for the moment, students are not so interested in building and
creating things. They are fascinated, they want to use them (as
consumers), but not to create 3D models, or to design new 3D printers.
I am using Printrun [9] to control the 3D printer and to send gcode to
it. To generate gcode from 3D models (.STL files), I am using Slic3r
[10]. Of course, all these software are working without any problem on
Gentoo.
Regards,
JC
[1] http://www.nybi.cc (in Frenchi :\ )
[2] http://www.reprap.org
[3] http://www.thingiverse.com
[4] http://www.thingiverse.com/watsdesign/designs
[5] http://reprap.org/wiki/FoldaRap
[6] http://www.ulule.com/foldarap/ (first batch)
[7] http://goteo.org/project/foldarap-peer-to-peer-edition (2nd batch)
[8] http://www.reprappro.com
[9] http://github.com/kliment/Printrun
[10] http://slic3r.org
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2013-07-04 19:38 [gentoo-user] 3D printers && Gentoo James
2013-07-04 20:52 ` Jean-Christophe Bach [this message]
2013-07-09 3:38 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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