• @TheYang
    5•12 days ago

    Oh wow, that,s freaking amazing.

    If the Slicer works well, I wonder if/when we’ll get a core r theta voron.

    That could be my next printer.

    Btw I assume this is patented to hell, but Voron wouldn’t need to care right? As they don’t intend to profit?

        • @[email protected]
          2•11 days ago

          Thank you for the correction! I only read untli gnuv3 but the second line of the license excludes sale

          This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3, with the following exception:

          The rights granted under this license do not include the right to Sell the software or any product derived substantially from them. For purposes of this exception, “Sell” is defined as providing the software or products for a fee or other consideration.

    • @[email protected]
      7•12 days ago

      If the Slicer works well

      I think this would be the biggest issue.

      I had a bit of experience with 5 axis machining and the programming of it is far from trivial.

      3 axis is really easy to automate, the paths are quite straightforward, especially for 3D printing when you go layers by layers.

      As soon as you add a 4th axis nothing is straightforward anymore. You have a high probability of collision between the extruder and the workpiece and now instead of having a single mathematical solution on how to go from point A to point B you have multiples options and no “right” option, it all depends on how the machine is built and the shape of the part.

      • @MachinistEnglish
        3•12 days ago

        Yup. This is one area where machining and machine movement is still an art. It can be scienced but it’s expensive to model a machine that well and CAM software still needs a lot of handholding beyond 3ax moves. That will eventually change, I expect someone will slap some ‘AI’ into CAM. I wonder, however, if it won’t actually require something close to general AI for real world utility.