Blender-Gcode-Import VS nozzleboss

Thanks for mentioning. Before nozzleboss I started with a simple G-code Importer, mainly focused on rendering, too. Blenders 'curve bevel' is perfect for that. Converts 2d paths into meshes. Check the first .gif here https://github.com/Heinz-Loepmeier/Blender-Gcode-Import/wiki

Before spending time making a blender add on check out this add on which I have been using to render my Gcode in blender https://github.com/Heinz-Loepmeier/Blender-Gcode-Import/wiki

When I press A to select all curves, there is one curve that is slightly lighter than the rest and when I go into the properties for that curve it only applies the change to the curve that is the slightly lighter curve. Here is a link to the process I am trying to do. https://github.com/Heinz-Loepmeier/Blender-Gcode-Import/wiki

The printing paths are imported into Blender and post-processed there. The wiki of the G-code importer for Blender has some visuals to give you an impression on how the paths can be further edited. For more experimental prints you can take a look at my nozzleboss IG

Import G-code into Blender (Gcode Importer)

-Import Gcode into Blender (Gcode Importer) -Enter Edit-mode and extrude vertices in Z-axis by layer height (needed cause sculptmode only works with faces, not 2D pathes alone) -Enter sculptmode and try different tools (you can lock the Z-axis so you don't generate non-planar paths) -Enter edit mode again and delete extruded vertices (should still be selected) -Export again with Gcode Exporter Addon

Conventional Slicer, then imported to Blender and did the sinewave curve editing there.

Thank you, the closest think right now is the docu page of my G-code Importer for Blender. It shows some manual curve editing with weightmaps inside of Blender. https://github.com/Heinz-Loepmeier/Blender-Gcode-Import/wiki

GitHub - Heinz-Loepmeier/nozzleboss

With fullcontroll.xyz you can edit every point and its properties like speed, extrusion values or non-planar coords.

I've been developing a similar add-on for Blender called nozzleboss. https://github.com/Heinz-Loepmeier/nozzleboss

Hopefully the user will respond as they know more than me but it’s this plugin for Blender: https://github.com/Heinz-Loepmeier/nozzleboss I personally haven’t got it working properly yet but there’s some pretty cool stuff that it seems to be capable of.

Sculpting G-code with Blender... Still doing different experiments to modify printing paths in Blender. It's a really cool and flexible approach, since you have all of Blenders modelling tools at your disposal, sculpting is just one example. Makes use of nozzleboss, a G-code importer/generator/exporter add-on I've been working on. Made a mini video tutorial for an overview of the process of how to create complex patterns with relatively simple means.

It'd be great to have something like a non-random fuzzy skin, but perhaps some pre/post-processing could work too? I feel like this awesome blender plugin could be a good post-processing starter

Every layer gets divided into 5 sublayers, so printing time is 5x. G-code paths were manually created in Blender and exported with nozzleboss add-on, which allows you to assign colors to single toolpaths.

There is an addon for blender (blender.org) called nozzleboss (https://github.com/Heinz-Loepmeier/nozzleboss) that allows you to import gcode and modify it real time and export it again. you could use spines for curves not sure about vectors tho. this is what I found about vector vs vertex: "A 'vector' is a mathematical concept; crudely, it represents a displacement in some coordinate space. A vertex is an element of some 3D (or 2D, really) geometry which typically has a position and some other attributes (color, texture coordinates, et cetera)." Hope this helps.

Not sure why it was removed: https://github.com/Heinz-Loepmeier/nozzleboss