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Generating color BMP slices out or STL or ABM

Michael Feygin

Generating color BMP slices out or STL or ABM
October 10, 2013 08:59PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 2

I would like to generate color slices in BMP or DXL format out of STL or ABM format 3D file. Does any one know of an open source software that can do it?

Many thanks,
Michael Feygin

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miso

Re: Generating color BMP slices out or STL or ABM
October 11, 2013 04:41AM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 156

Skeinforge generates *.svg from *.stl, than you can use some editor to convert it to *.bmp.

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diytechshop

Re: Generating color BMP slices out or STL or ABM
October 16, 2013 04:10PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 99

To convert from svg to bmp I would suggest inkscape (http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en). It's open source, free and fairly easy to use. Also you might want to use Slic3r vs Skeinforge just for simplicity.

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Michael Feygin

Re: Generating color BMP slices out or STL or ABM
October 25, 2013 10:32AM

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Thanks a lot!
Michael

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paucus

Re: Generating color BMP slices out or STL or ABM
November 24, 2013 11:35AM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 325

Is there any open source software out there for working with files with color info, like AMF or OBJ? Anything that could be used for painting objects via the gcode, with an appropriate extruder?

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Ezrec

Re: Generating color BMP slices out or STL or ABM
January 07, 2015 11:34AM

Registered: 9 years ago
Posts: 127

I use 'repsnapper' to output a directory of individual .svg files (one per layer), then use this shell script to convert to PNG:

#!/bin/sh
SVG_DIR="$1"
for d in `ls ${SVG_DIR}/*.svg | sort`; do
	convert -border 10 $d `basename $d .svg`.png
done