Re: 3D printer progress

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "vrsculptor" <vrsculptor@...>
wrote:

>
> Graham,
> Rhino's SLC export looks broken. I have been able to read the file for
> simple forms and export as an ascii file but as soon as the object
> gets complicated Rhino starts throwing in bytes here and there. Rhino
> always throws in random bytes before the "ffffffff" file terminator.
>
> I even did a GDI renderer that works on simple forms like cubes.
>
> Do you have a source for a "real" SLC file? I don't know where to go
> from here.
>

I'm trying to get the full spec from 3Dsystems but its a bit like
pulling teeth. Rhino SLC files supposedly work OK with Solidscape
printers, there is even a special command that you might try called
modelworks.

But this could just mean that the SLC files are made to match that
printer and that printer may be working off the wrong spec too.

Its interesting that a cube can be defined by just one contour and a
z-height or lots of contours.

Graham