[gentoo-user] [OT] Extracting printer settings from a gcode file?

[gentoo-user] [OT] Extracting printer settings from a gcode file?

[tuxic]

Hi,

currently I am starting with 3D-printing.  I have watched a lot of videos of
how to create models, do bed leveling, (bad leveling, sometimes ;) choose
filaments, and what else...

Say one use a 3D-printer, which uses the a SDcard to read the gcode files.
Beside some basic settings (hot end temprature, bed temperature, filament feed
speed...I think that's it) all informations about the print process are in the
gcode file. There is no other way of feeding informations to the printer as the
gcode on that certain SDcard.

And slicer settings optimzed for a certain printer are seemingly one of the
treasures hunted a lot...

The printer I ordered (and which still hasn't arrived yet ...) comes with some
example gcode files. I would guess that the manufacturer has trimmed the slicer
settings he has used for these example files, are optimized to give the best
results with this printer -- its kind of an advertising.

Would be nice, if it could be possible to extract them from the gcode example
files in a way, that made it possible to feed them back into the slicer
software manually (not expecting to get a config file ready to be read directly
with that certain slicer software I want to use...) 

And as one has already feared...the question:    ;)
How can I do this?   

Cheers 
Meino

PS: I know qcode is an ASCII format...but understanding the codes to extract the
slicer settings is a totally different kind of task... ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Extracting printer settings from a gcode file?

[Adam Carter]

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>
> Would be nice, if it could be possible to extract them from the gcode
> example
> files in a way, that made it possible to feed them back into the slicer
> software manually (not expecting to get a config file ready to be read
> directly
> with that certain slicer software I want to use...)
>

Suggest you load the gcode file, then in slicer go to each of the three
settings tabs and save as a new preset. Then when you go to slice your
model, you can select those profiles. IIRC that is, i haven't touched this
for a long time.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Extracting printer settings from a gcode file?

[tuxic]

On 11/01 12:15, Adam Carter wrote:
> >
> > Would be nice, if it could be possible to extract them from the gcode
> > example
> > files in a way, that made it possible to feed them back into the slicer
> > software manually (not expecting to get a config file ready to be read
> > directly
> > with that certain slicer software I want to use...)
> >
> 
> Suggest you load the gcode file, then in slicer go to each of the three
> settings tabs and save as a new preset. Then when you go to slice your
> model, you can select those profiles. IIRC that is, i haven't touched this
> for a long time.

Hi Adam,

OH! :)
...and I thought, that the gcode is a write-only format, which cannot be "reversed"
into something a slicer would understand (only the printer)...

You see: It's time, that my printer finally arrived (it got stuck somehwere between
the UK and here) and get out of this "theoreticallu it may be. that"-thinking...

Thanks a lot Adam! Your solution is by far better than hand picking gcode-commands
and deciphering printer settings from that... :))

Cheers
Meino