Skeinforge

Skeinforge & Skeinview

The old skeinforge was a beanshell script used to output GCode from Art of Illusion.

IT IS DISCONTINUED.

Do not use the old beanshell skeinforge, instead use the new snazzy python skeinforge, described at: http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/Skeinforge

The stuff below about the old beanshell skeinforge is just for historical purposes.

Skeinforge was preiviously called Threadforge and Export Slices before that, it is available at: Skeinforge

To use it, put the file into the Art of Illusion "tools" folder in the "scripts" folder. Then turn the shape you wish to output into a triangle mesh, select it and choose Skeinforge from the Scripts menu in the Tools folder, then click OK.

Below is a gcode excerpt produced using Skeinforge. Below that is the excerpt after comments were added by Skeinview, a related gcode viewer and analyzer, which is at Skeinview

( GCode generated by March 29,2007 Skeinforge ) 
( Extruder Initialization ) 
M100 P210 
M103 
M104 P145.0 
M105 
M106 
M108 P0.8 
G21 
G90 
G28 
( Extruder Movement ) 
( Extruder paths for layer 0 of Hollow Square ) 
M101 
G1 X-2.935 Y1.84 Z0.376 F600.0 
.. 
many lines of gcode 
.. 
G1 X-4.931 Y-2.349 Z1.124 F600.0 
M103 
( Extruder Shut Down ) 
M103 
M104 P0 
M107 

Below that is the same excerpt after comments were added by Skeinview, a related gcode viewer and analyzer, which is at Skeinview

( GCode generated by March 29,2007 Skeinforge ) 
( Extruder Initialization ) 
( Set extruder speed to 210.0. ) 
M100 P210 
( Turn extruder off. ) 
M103 
( Set temperature to 145.0 C. ) 
M104 P145.0 
( Custom code for temperature reading. ) 
M105 
( Turn fan on. ) 
M106 
( Set extrusion diameter to 0.8 mm. ) 
M108 P0.8 
( Set units to mm. ) 
G21 
( Set positioning to absolute. ) 
G90 
( Start at home. ) 
G28 
( Extruder Movement ) 
( Extruder paths for layer 0 of Hollow Square ) 
( Turn extruder on. ) 
M101 
( Linear move to Vec3: -2.935, 1.84, 0.376. ) 
G1 X-2.935 Y1.84 Z0.376 F600.0 
.. 
many lines of gcode 
.. 
( Linear move to Vec3: -4.931, -2.349, 1.124. ) 
G1 X-4.931 Y-2.349 Z1.124 F600.0 
( Turn extruder off. ) 
M103 
( Extruder Shut Down ) 
( Turn extruder off. ) 
M103 
( Set temperature to 0.0 C. ) 
M104 P0 
( Turn fan off. ) 
M107