extending gcode viewer to saving as stl file

[fdamani 0]

Hello,

 

I am interested in a tool that imports gcode and saves the rendered visualization as a stl file. Is this possible? If it is not, what is the data structure behind the current gcode viewer plug in? Thanks!

Edited May 7, 2018 by fdamani

[gr5 2,225]

Wow.  That's going to be hard to do and even if you got it to work it would be pretty ugly.  You would lose a lot of the resolution of the original part.  

 

There are lots of much simpler gcode viewers than cura.  For example there is http://gcode.ws website which is written completely in javascript I think.  You could start with that.  cura is much more complicated.

 

 

[nallath 1,124]

The current-gcode viewer is rendered in a shader that uses vertex displacement, this makes it damn annoying to get that data and save it as STL.

[ahoeben 1,986]

Even if you would create a model out of the lines specified in the gcode, it would not be a very "nice" model to work with.

 

At one time, AutoDesk had a tool that would let you load a gcode file and then "remesh" it into an stl, but it has been "retired".

https://www.3ders.org/articles/20131013-free-autodesk-project-miller-offers-3d-printing-previews.html

Some of its functionality is now part of MeshMixer, but loading gcode files is not.