A Cura based DXF generator from your STL

[gregwar 1]

Hello,

Recently I've been working on laser cutting machines, with a 3D background I like to design parts and do assemblies using softwares like OpenSCAD or Autodesk

This is why I wrote Projekt, a software based on CuraEngine to get the slices of your part and export it as DXF:

https://github.com/Rhoban/Projekt

You can also use it to generate multiple gravures level, it will uses polygon differences with the previous layer

Don't know wether there is already softwares that do this kind of thing

I may create a gui for this some day (maybe this could be an output option for Cura). Hope this helps!

[nallath 1,124]

oooh, nice! It should be relatively easy to make an app with the cura/uranium engine to support all this.

Daid also did this for our laser cutter; https://github.com/daid/NinjaKittens2

[bagel-orb 61]

Perhaps you can use Uranium, but build your own frontend on top of that instead of Cura?

[gregwar 1]

I can also do a Qt+OpenGL based frontend

The biggest problem with command line is dealing with parts orientation

Actually, I've already did something similar in Plater (https://github.com/robotswar/plater)

[nallath 1,124]

Ooh, nice Would be interesting to see if we could get that in a plugin for Cura.