Bottom converts the svg slices into gcode extrusion layers, optionally bottom with some gcode commands.
The bottom manual page is at:
http://www.bitsfrombytes.com/wiki/index.php?title=Skeinforge_Bottom
Operation
Settings
Altitude
SVG Viewer
Examples
Operation
The default 'Activate Bottom' checkbox is on. When it is on, the functions described below will work, when it is off, the functions will not be called.
Settings
Altitude
Default is zero.
Defines the altitude of the bottom of the model. The bottom slice have a z of the altitude plus half the layer thickness.
SVG Viewer
Default is webbrowser.
If the 'SVG Viewer' is set to the default 'webbrowser', the scalable vector graphics file will be sent to the default browser to be opened. If the 'SVG Viewer' is set to a program name, the scalable vector graphics file will be sent to that program to be opened.
Examples
The following examples bottom the file Screw Holder Bottom.stl. The examples are run in a terminal in the folder which contains Screw Holder Bottom.stl and bottom.py.
> python bottom.py
This brings up the bottom dialog.
> python bottom.py Screw Holder Bottom.stl
The bottom tool is parsing the file:
Screw Holder Bottom.stl
..
The bottom tool has created the file:
.. Screw Holder Bottom_bottom.gcode
> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Sep 22 2007, 01:43:31)
[GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bottom
>>> bottom.main()
This brings up the bottom dialog.
>>> bottom.writeOutput('Screw Holder Bottom.stl')
The bottom tool is parsing the file:
Screw Holder Bottom.stl
..
The bottom tool has created the file:
.. Screw Holder Bottom_bottom.gcode
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__author__ = 'Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)' __date__ = '$Date: 2008/28/04 $' __license__ = 'GPL 3.0' absolute_import = _Feature((2, 5, 0, 'alpha', 1), (2, 7, 0, 'alpha', 0), 16384) |
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