HI, I am just getting started with 3D printing and in the early stages of building a Prusa Mendel. I have the frame together and my stepper motors just arrived yesterday. While I wait for my Sanguinololu board to arrive in the US from from the Netherlands, I thought I would spend time on installing and getting to "know" the software. I have installed Reprap Host, Replicator, Repsnapper, Skeinforge and Openscad on 2 windows 7 machines and they seem to work as best they can considering they cannot connect to a printer. Here's my question: I read that a newer 10/19/2011 version of Openscad can export .csg files and that csgfiles can end up making better prints. [blog.reprap.org] does anyone have access to this newer version of OpenScad that I can install on my window 7 machines? I tired following the instructions in an OpenScad wiki that I think would have created what I am looking for, but I must have missed a step or two in the process. I guess I shouldn't have expected better, as I'm am a plastics engineer, not a computer programmer. Thanks in Advance Roy... near Pittsburgh, PA U.S.A. P.S. Once I get my Prusa working, my long term goal is to get it to print polypropylene and figure out how to solve the warpage problems as I have access to about 600 million pounds of polypropylene and polypropylene compounds per year. I am thinking that using a high flow rate resin with some filler and maybe a higher end nucleating agent and then messing with cooling/warming of the print bed or the air surrounding it. https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104297#msg-104297 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:11:14 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104734#msg-104734 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104734#msg-104734 Yep, that was it, and I just didn't see it. DOH!

Roy]]> roygpa General Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:26:44 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104466#msg-104466 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104466#msg-104466
Roy]]> roygpa General Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:07:49 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104464#msg-104464 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104464#msg-104464 bryanandaimee General Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:06:38 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104452#msg-104452 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104452#msg-104452
Am I right in assuming that somebody will compile it and offer it up on the internet sooner or later?

I am learning a lot here by reading other threads and the search function is very useful too.

Thanks

Roy]]> roygpa General Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:25:01 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104297#msg-104297 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,104297,104297#msg-104297
Here's my question: I read that a newer 10/19/2011 version of Openscad can export .csg files and that csgfiles can end up making better prints.
[blog.reprap.org]

does anyone have access to this newer version of OpenScad that I can install on my window 7 machines? I tired following the instructions in an OpenScad wiki that I think would have created what I am looking for, but I must have missed a step or two in the process. I guess I shouldn't have expected better, as I'm am a plastics engineer, not a computer programmer.

Thanks in Advance

Roy... near Pittsburgh, PA U.S.A.

P.S. Once I get my Prusa working, my long term goal is to get it to print polypropylene and figure out how to solve the warpage problems as I have access to about 600 million pounds of polypropylene and polypropylene compounds per year. I am thinking that using a high flow rate resin with some filler and maybe a higher end nucleating agent and then messing with cooling/warming of the print bed or the air surrounding it.]]> roygpa General Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:02:20 -0400