CAM Toolchains

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A RepRap CAM toolchain consists of all the software elements needed to create printed 3d models from CAD models to firmware. It is the software part of the RepRap Toolchains, as opposed to the RepRap_Hardware_Toolchains.

This list contains the various toolchain components available and provides a comparison of their features, compatible components and how to get them.

It should be noted that a comparison of CAD modeling programs is outside of the scope of this article. CAM toolchains are generally CAD program agnostic because they can accept standard STL models as input which almost all CAD programs can export directly or through plugins.


Firmware

Firmware Author(s) Compatible electronics dc motor extruder? stepper extruder? extruder speed control? movement speed control? RepRap-style acceleration Start-stop ramping thermocouples? heated build platforms? Documentation Download
RepRap FiveD GCode Interpreter RepRap.org Gen 3, Pololu (more?) true true true true false true true install guide stable, dev
"Tonokip" firmware, aka "tesla" firmware (hydra-mmm derivative) tonok, tesla893, ? arduino mega, (more?) false true true true false false maybe true No documentation dev
Gen2OnABoard FiveD Gcode Interpreter Nick McCoy Gen2OnABoard true true true false src
MakerBot MakerBot.com Gen 3 (more?) true true true manual dev
DavidBuzz DavidBuzz Gen 3 (more?) src
Teacup Firmware Triffid_Hunter, Traumflug, jakepoz, others most (all?) boards with atmega168 or bigger, incl. gen3, RAMPS, etc (present, untested) true true true true true true true web & wiki src
Grbl Simen Svale Skogsrud Arduino Grbl page src

RepRap Drivers

Driver Author(s) Compatible firmware(s) Manual movement? Manual extruder control? Manual stepper disable? Manual heated build platform control? Live GCode terminal? SD card upload? GCode input? Step-NC input? Integrated GCode compiler? Documentation Download
EMCRepRap EMC and RepRap.org Linux PC true false false wiki page wiki page
RepRap Host Software RepRap.org 5D GCode Interpreter, FiveD on Arduino, more? true true false true false true false true install guide, user manual dev
RepSnapper Kulitorum 5D GCode Interpreter, 3D GCode Interpreter true true true

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true true false true install guide, user manual windows, osx, src
ReplicatorG RRRF Makerbot, 5D true true true true false true true false true install guide, user manual stable
send.py (bundled with SkeinForge) Brendan Erwin and John Gilmore 5D GCode Interpreter, 3D GCode Interpreter false false false false false false true false false user manual builds
GCode-utils Ralith 5D GCode Interpreter?, 3D GCode Interpreter? true true true false false Website src, linux binaries


Note: some drivers such as the RepRap Host Software are listed here and under GCode compilers as they serve both functions however for comparison purposes their features have been split into the relevant tables.

GCode, Etc. Compilers

Compiler Author(s) Compatible firmware features STL input? Multiple STL input? Step-NC input? RFO input? GCode output? Step-NC output? RFO output? Compilation Speed Documentation Download
RepRap Host Software RepRap.org 5D true true false true true false false average install guide, user manual dev
RepSnapper Kulitorum 5D, 3D true true false true false fast install guide, user manual windows, linux (dev)
SkeinForge Enrique 5D, 3D true false false true false false average manual latest builds
Netfabb Engine Netfabb true fast latest release
SuperSkein MaskedRetriever true true fast src, downloads

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