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