Learn about the top web-based slicers available for supporting your 3d printer. This review is part 1 of 2, where I look at Astroprint, Kiri:Moto, Canvas, an. In this example, there is a pivot table based on a table with sales data, and a slicer for the City field. The source data has four cities, and we only want Boston and Los Angeles available in the slicer The slicer shows all the items, and we can't hide the cities that we don't want to use. View 3D STL files directly in your browser - no software installation is required.
Kiri:Moto Web Based Slicer for your 3D Printer, Laser Cutter and CNC Machine Kiri:Moto is a new free web based slicer that can be used for FDM printers, laser cutters and CNC machines. Kiri:Moto is an extensible, multi-purpose slicing and visualization engine that produces output for.
by Amir Netz, Technical Fellow
This is the first entry in a series of articles discussing some awesome features of visuals, many that are not very obvious at first glance.
We'll start our journey with a visual that was uploaded just today into the gallery: The Chiclet Slicer.
The Chiclet Slicer was inspired by the great slicer control found in Excel since 2010. But while we started with functionality of the Excel Slicer, the Power BI team took some creative freedoms with it. The result: This new Chiclet Slicer is not just great, it's freaking-awesome.
Once you watch the video, you too will realize that this fantastic new visualization is destined to become the new workhorse of Power BI:
(Yes – that's me with the metallic voice)
If you read these lines then you must have skipped the video. Because every sensible Power BI user should at this point stop reading and rash to try the Chiclet Slicer on their own. Yes – it's that cool.
But for those of you who have not watched the video, here are some spoilers of what you have missed:
Chiclet are a slicers made of buttons:
That can also be arranged horizontally for a very efficient real estate use:
Or arranged as a matrix for a super compact form:
Not only that – they also support cross highlighting!
And it just get better: They can even contain images!
Or by removing the frame and text you can just make them into a data driven gallery of images!
In short they are just un-flipping-believably cool. Now – go use them. Just go. Run.
Mar 24, 2016 | By Andre
Before anything is ever 3D printed it has to be sliced. A slice is a file that contains the necessary set of coordinates and extrusion instructions that a 3D printer follows while working its magic. In most cases you'll need to download slicing software (Makerware, Cura and Slic3r are popular examples) onto your computer and go from there.
But the world is changing. Cloud computing is rapidly growing and web-based devices like the Chromebook and iPad are not far behind. 3D printer slicing software developers are starting to take notice. As we wrote about earlier in 2016, a web-based slicing app is being developed by serial entrepreneur Stewart Allen called KIRI:MOTO. His online tools allow you to import your print-ready STL file with easy drag and drop functionality and export a 3D print ready gcode or x3g file for use in just about any FDM based desktop 3D printer.
It now seems that Sébastien Mischler - a veteran in the open-source 3D printer game - has gone ahead and created SLAcer, a web-based slicer for stereolithography (SLA) resin based 3D printers. And if you consider that there are more consumer grade SLA 3D printers on the market today than ever before, it's come at the perfect time.
The primary reason for his efforts is to make available, for the first time, an SLA slicer without any local dependences. This means no software has to be installed on your system as long as you're using a web browser compatible with your printer board (Arduino or SmoothieBoard for example).
After taking the SLAcer for a quick run, I noticed it has a lot of features you'd be after with a 3D printing slicing app. Importing any 3D print STL file is as easy as dragging and dropping it onto the screen. Object scaling, rotating, mesh information, build volume declaration, resolution and 3D print resolution options (to name a few) are all present in this beta version of his code.
And while some common features such as support generation tools and uniform scaling capabilities are absent, that's not the end of the world at this early stage in Sébastien's development of his code. Also, if I was really eager to make these omissions happen, I could jump into his github and download the source files as he is keeping everything open-source.
Unfortunately for me, I don't think his code is compatible with my Form-1 SLA 3D printer, otherwise I would have given it a swirl. Fortunately for others, he plans to add network communication, serial communication, refactoring and the ability to export slices in the DXF format for use on laser cutters (something the Kiri:Moto slicer already features).
Sébastien's efforts are definitely to be commended and I'm excited to see his code grow; either through his own efforts or via a collaboration made possible through his git. With more and more new-generation 3D printing companies resorting to patenting their innovations, it's nice to see open-source 3D printer developers still flourishing.
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Uniform scaling added ;)
Mar 24, 2016 | By Andre
Before anything is ever 3D printed it has to be sliced. A slice is a file that contains the necessary set of coordinates and extrusion instructions that a 3D printer follows while working its magic. In most cases you'll need to download slicing software (Makerware, Cura and Slic3r are popular examples) onto your computer and go from there.
But the world is changing. Cloud computing is rapidly growing and web-based devices like the Chromebook and iPad are not far behind. 3D printer slicing software developers are starting to take notice. As we wrote about earlier in 2016, a web-based slicing app is being developed by serial entrepreneur Stewart Allen called KIRI:MOTO. His online tools allow you to import your print-ready STL file with easy drag and drop functionality and export a 3D print ready gcode or x3g file for use in just about any FDM based desktop 3D printer.
It now seems that Sébastien Mischler - a veteran in the open-source 3D printer game - has gone ahead and created SLAcer, a web-based slicer for stereolithography (SLA) resin based 3D printers. And if you consider that there are more consumer grade SLA 3D printers on the market today than ever before, it's come at the perfect time.
The primary reason for his efforts is to make available, for the first time, an SLA slicer without any local dependences. This means no software has to be installed on your system as long as you're using a web browser compatible with your printer board (Arduino or SmoothieBoard for example).
After taking the SLAcer for a quick run, I noticed it has a lot of features you'd be after with a 3D printing slicing app. Importing any 3D print STL file is as easy as dragging and dropping it onto the screen. Object scaling, rotating, mesh information, build volume declaration, resolution and 3D print resolution options (to name a few) are all present in this beta version of his code.
And while some common features such as support generation tools and uniform scaling capabilities are absent, that's not the end of the world at this early stage in Sébastien's development of his code. Also, if I was really eager to make these omissions happen, I could jump into his github and download the source files as he is keeping everything open-source.
Unfortunately for me, I don't think his code is compatible with my Form-1 SLA 3D printer, otherwise I would have given it a swirl. Fortunately for others, he plans to add network communication, serial communication, refactoring and the ability to export slices in the DXF format for use on laser cutters (something the Kiri:Moto slicer already features).
Sébastien's efforts are definitely to be commended and I'm excited to see his code grow; either through his own efforts or via a collaboration made possible through his git. With more and more new-generation 3D printing companies resorting to patenting their innovations, it's nice to see open-source 3D printer developers still flourishing.
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Uniform scaling added ;)
Sébastien Mischler wrote at 3/25/2016 1:08:03 PM:
Uniform scaling added ;)
Corey Warren wrote at 3/24/2016 7:50:31 PM:
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My own opinion on Desktop SLA printers is yuck! There is so much preparation and post printing work that it isn't fun. The chemicals are dangerous and I just don't want to deal with any of that. For my FDM printers I load the object, slice and hit print. The only thing I may have to do is change the filament if I want a different color.
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