GCode and STL Viewer in Python

[Skaterdude]

The Makerbot Google Group had an interesting post about a viewer that others might be interested in for the Cupcake and other CAD/CAM stuff at i3 Detroit.  If you use any of the Makerbots, this is a good group to subscribe to.  If you're having a problem, odds are someone else has and has already solved it.

Here's the first post in the thread on the new viewer:

I've been in need of a better Gcode and STL viewer on my Linux machine for a while now. Preview in ReplicatorG doesn't work on my distro (Arch), Pleasant 3D is Mac-only and Gcode viewing in skeinforge is way too painful to use. As a result, I decided to code my own viewer in Python, which I finally got to publish on github a week or so ago.

The project's page is at http://dkobozev.github.com/tatlin/

A brief overview of the project:
* Still early in development.
* I've only tried feeding it Gcode generated by Skeinforge and a handful of STL files, so I don't know how the parsers stand up to files in the wild. It does handle both plain-text and binary STLs. 

* Written in Python without any platform-specific code that I know of. All of the libraries are purportedly cross-platform too, but I suspect
that PyGTK is hard to install on macs.
* Fairly fast, because it uses numpy for most calculation-intensive tasks. I've been getting decent performance on a 5 year old Thinkpad.

If you're interested, give it a try. The project's page has some more info, along with screenshots. Your feedback is welcome.