[SML] Pancake Bot

[Dave Vick]

Ummmmmm.... my 3D printer controller, MatterControl, and my printer, a
home-built Rostock MAX v2, can do arcs and curves just fine... on the X and
Y axes... obviously the Z axis is a series of 0.2mm segments...


On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:15 PM Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 12/08/2016 09:10 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft wrote:
> > Modern 3D printers use the same g-code that the early milling machines
> > used.  Like DMX-512, it just keeps on ticking...
> >
>
> I should say a subset, the 3D printers I've seen can't do the higher
> functions from old milling machines like "make an arc".  The host
> computer has to send everything as straight line segments.
>
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