skeinforge_tools.craft_plugins.preface ($Date: 2008/28/04 $) | index /home/enrique/Desktop/backup/babbleold/script/reprap/pyRepRap/skeinforge_tools/craft_plugins/preface.py |
Preface is a script to convert an svg file into a prefaced gcode file.
Preface converts the svg slices into gcode extrusion layers, optionally prefaced with some gcode commands.
If "Set Positioning to Absolute" is chosen, preface will add the G90 command to set positioning to absolute, the default is on. If "Set Units to Millimeters" is chosen, preface will add the G21 command to set the units to millimeters, the default is on. If the "Start at Home" preference is selected, the G28 go to home gcode will be added at the beginning of the file, the default is off. If the "Turn Extruder Off at Shut Down" preference is selected, the M103 turn extruder off gcode will be added at the end of the file, the default is on. If the "Turn Extruder Off at Start Up" preference is selected, the M103 turn extruder off gcode will be added at the beginning of the file, the default is on.
Preface also gives the option of using Adrian's extruder distance E value in the gcode lines, as described at:
http://blog.reprap.org/2009/05/4d-printing.html
and in Erik de Bruijn's conversion script page at:
http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/3D-to-5D-Gcode.php
The extrusion distance format is either "Do Not Add Extrusion Distance", which gives standard XYZ & Feed Rate gcode, this is the default choice. If "Extrusion Distance Absolute" is chosen, the extrusion distance output will be the total extrusion distance to that gcode line. If "Extrusion Distance Relative" is chosen, the extrusion distance output will be the extrusion distance from the last gcode line.
When preface is generating the code, if there is a file with the name of the "Name of Start File" setting, the default being start.gcode, it will be added that to the very beginning of the gcode. If there is a file with the name of the "Name of End File" setting, the default being end.gcode, it will be added to the very end. Preface does not care if the text file names are capitalized, but some file systems do not handle file name cases properly, so to be on the safe side you should give them lower case names. Preface looks for those files in the alterations folder in the .skeinforge folder in the home directory. If it doesn't find the file it then looks in the alterations folder in the skeinforge_tools folder. If it doesn't find anything there it looks in the craft_plugins folder.
The following examples preface the file Screw Holder Bottom.stl. The examples are run in a terminal in the folder which contains Screw Holder Bottom.stl and preface.py.
> python preface.py
This brings up the preface dialog.
> python preface.py Screw Holder Bottom.stl
The preface tool is parsing the file:
Screw Holder Bottom.stl
..
The preface tool has created the file:
.. Screw Holder Bottom_preface.gcode
> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Sep 22 2007, 01:43:31)
[GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import preface
>>> preface.main()
This brings up the preface dialog.
>>> preface.writeOutput()
The preface tool is parsing the file:
Screw Holder Bottom.stl
..
The preface tool has created the file:
.. Screw Holder Bottom_preface.gcode
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__author__ = 'Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)' __date__ = '$Date: 2008/28/04 $' __license__ = 'GPL 3.0' absolute_import = _Feature((2, 5, 0, 'alpha', 1), (2, 7, 0, 'alpha', 0), 16384) |
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