And right now there's no standard/open way to express parametric designs, that I know of, so they're all tied to a desktop GUI app. The advantage over exporting an STL/OBJ file would be that it could be parametric. For example, Thingiverse Customizer, Youmagine, Solidoodles, etc. The scenario that's most obvious to me is that people could model in Fusion 360 (it's a nice shared authoring GUI for CAD modeling) and then export OpenSCAD script representations for rendering using OpenSCAD. The question is - is there interest on the part of some OpenSCAD developers in helping make it easy for Fusion 360 to integrate with OpenSCAD. To be clear, Fusion 360 is a proprietary commercial application, and I suspect that won't change. Some more insight on this issue is nicely addressed in this text, you may like checking out: Īs a side note: I love INSTRUCTABLES, by the way! :-D After all we're all makers/hackers/diy-minded people/etc., right? So, while a gratis tool may sound generous, it blocks us from flipping it upside down and creating whatever crazy things we want to create with it. I'm pretty sure most people here in this mailing list believe that they deserve the right to tinker with the tools they use.
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And the most valuable thing for free software activists is software freedom, which is exactly what offers of "gratis" licenses of proprietary software lack: they are free, but they lack freedom. I'm just stating that if companies want something from the software freedom movement, the companies must give something back as well. Unfortunatelly, the most common partnerships I've seen recently in the "maker movement" do not truly satisfy that expectation of freedom. That is, software that respects the freedoms of the users. Actually I think it is very important to foster the free software economy by having more employed programmers producing truly-free software. I do agree that there is potential for good partnerships between free software communities and technology companies. I would in any case be interested in being in the loop - having contact with a fan in the Autodesk system cannot hurt :) I’m also doing a bunch of Javascript-based experiments with OpenSCAD these days, so I might be interested in such a project. I’m not at all familiar with Fusion 360, but I like the idea. > The next question is - are any big openSCADers who might be interested in working with the Fusion API to build a javascript->openSCAD converter? What do you think of the idea? Any suggestions? On Aug 25, 2014, at 14:22 PM, Laird Popkin wrote: Now back in Fusion 360 when you hit OK it will open the slicer of choice and the model will already be there ready for slicing.On Mon, at 3:43 PM, Marius Kintel wrote: Navigate to where you installed your slicing software and highlight the application by right clicking and click on Select.
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Click on that folder and a regular Windows file selector will appear. Next to the Application selection you will see an icon that represents a folder. In the drop down list next to the Print Utility selection drop the list down and select Custom.
In the section that says Output (you may need to open it by clicking on the little triangle next to the name) check the box next to Send to 3D Print Utility. A dialog box will pop up where you can usually set resolution and such. to enable load any model in Fusion 360 then select to Save As STL. You can send your STL files directly to your slicer from Fusion 360.