Skip your Gcode slicer completely and print directly from Rhino3D. Why? Because you’ll be freed from the constraints of quadratic code to experience the organic nature of silkworm!
Project Silkworm is an add-on for 3D modelling software Rhino3D and its popular Grasshopper plug-in. Instead of relying on the layer-by-layer, robotic operations dictated by a slicing program, Silkworm allows you to more directly control the way that your 3D printer moves and extrudes. You can tell your printer to extrude more filament here, less filament there, and vary its path along the X,Y and Z axis based on your creative insight, leading to such ornately layered objects as these:
The software is described by its creator as follows: “Silkworm is a plugin that translates Grasshopper and Rhino geometry into GCode for 3d printing.…
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