Hello group, my name is Federico. I discovered GrblGru by chance . I would like to know if it is possible to import an .STL project and generate a toolpath. And if so, how is it done? Is there a video? Thank you for your precious help.
Welcome to the forum and thank you for your interest in GrblGru.
I’m sorry, I have a 3D processing. But it is not yet error-free. I’m still working on it at the moment.
Do you want to do something specific ? If so, it would be nice if you could provide me with an example. Then I can use it to test my function.
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Just blundered in to your question, which I realise is 6 months old now. GRBL is a gcode interpreter to turn relatively simple commands (move toolhead and/or bed around) in to stepper motor steps. The program that converts a series of triangles (stl file) in to the tool movements is way more involved and generally comes under the category of CAM, though anybody who can create a 4 or 5d metal cutting program would probably not consider the trivial (by comparison) task of programming a router or fdm printer or the even easier resin and sls/laser jobs as real CAM. If I am doing something really simple in 3d terms such as using a router cutting from just one direction then I would use pixelcnc (takes in an stl, churns out grbl style gcode). If it is to be machined on more than one face then freecad or fusion360.