Simulated Arduino and 3D Printer

Hi All,

I wasn't sure where to post this question, so hopefully it's appropriate for the General Discussion. I am basically trying to set up a test environment where I can simulate sending a print job to a virtualized Arduino that is connected to a virtual 3D printer. The simulation of an Arduino looks straight forward (http://arduinosim.sourceforge.net/ looks like a solution), but get a virtual printer seems less straight forward.

Any thoughts?

Best Regards

??? printer firmware on arduino ????

Print job
STL file -----> Slicer ------> G-code -----> G-code interpreter ------> drivers -------> printer move

Data out of Arduino would be analog outputs for direction and steps to motors ------> virtual print?

so you are looking for something to take analog outputs for direction and steps to motors to a print????

Good Luck?

Repetier-Host

Software that runs on PC to run printer.
Has a mode that will visual show a print without printing
sort of test run

Repetier-host takes G-code and visualizes it as if it were print

while I havent seen anyone do this yet I have seen similar things done with blender. simulating a robot on the screen and then controling the robotic simulation. It also might be posible to create a openscad of the printer or utilize the mendel90 open scad files and adjust the arduino simulator outputs to cotrol the scad simulation.

For the physical simulation this could be useful : The breve Simulation Environment

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Most of my technical comments should be correct, but is THIS one ?
Anyway, as a rule of thumb, always double check what people write.

What exactly do you want to test?

If you are thinking of something that will validate 3D designs or any part of the software chain I think you will find it a major challenge. Simulating real-time computing is by no means simple.

...R

Thank you for the replies!

Currently I am with out my 3D printer, but I would like to work on simulate connecting the printer up to auto print (for example [github.com]). I need software that will automatically do what the Repetier-Host accomplishes manually. If this means writing the code then I am happy to get to work on it, but I require a test environment.

Here are my requirements for:

1. Create a deamon/server program that will accept an stl file.
2. Sclice it up into gcode
3. Push it out to the Arduino and Print


I just want to be able to do this with out actually being hooked up to a printer, so I can out software (such as the Repetier-Server).