Added support for DXF layers to gcodepreview (my library for OpenPythonSCAD)

[William Adams]

Here:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

Basically, one can have a .py file which generates a colour-coded 3D preview:

which generates a DXF:

which can be imported into a CAM tool:

which preserves the layer assignments, and for some CAM tools, allows toolpaths to be associated with layers.

William

[John David]

Cool!  What CAM tool are you using in the third image?  Or is this the interface for gcodepreview?

If you are interested in laser cutting, Guenther and I will be coming out with a toolchain that lets you either set the colomap association with power and feed rate, or alternatively encode the power and feed directly into the object color.  I'll have to remember gcodepreview for other work in the future, but all my mills and router are down ATM.

  EBo --

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[William Adams]

Thanks!

No UI for gcodepreview (beyond what the Customizer in OpenPythonSCAD affords), that is Carbide Create (ob. discl., I work for Carbide 3D).

I wrote up a bit about it at:

https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/2d-drawing

https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/toolpaths

but one needs the new beta version (and a Pro license if one doesn't have a Carbide 3D machine):

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/carbide-create-beta-839/101187

I've been following the laser stuff, and it's _awesome_ --- maybe see if you can integrate w/ the boxes.py folks so that there can be a version of that project which has 3D previews.

William

[John David]

I will have to look into more deeply later.  Thanks for the write-ups and post.

re: boxes.py...

For my work on jigs, I developed a tabbed_box library, that allows me to do things like skip tabs so that my French cleat boxes have full support for the cleats, sides or dividers.  In fact, my first project I am using for testing uses tabbed_box and uses two different materials/thicknesses.  I'm planning to publicly release it once it stabilized, and I have used it for a bunch of things.

  EBo --

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