rapman-education's posterous

rapman-education's posterous

Dave White  //  A place for educators, teachers, lecturers and students to find "stuff" about RapMan,BfB3000 and BfB 3DTouch printers... The unofficial Blog by Dave White, Advanced Skills Teacher and Head of D&T in Clevedon School UK.

May 4 / 10:09pm

CD Distribution... initial thoughts

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I have been giving some thought about how to distribute the RapMan Resources and wondered about whether BfB might include a starter CD/DVD in the kits they send out to education customers.

So, I have been playing with CD Menus (see the picture J), not too certain yet so will have to chat to the BfB Boys.

Dave

 

If anyone is thinking about creating CD/DVD menus then you will find there is very little available in the free/open source areas... so I’ve been trying ashampoo’s version (10 day trial).... so far so good, I might shell out for the full version as it is not too expensive J

 

 

 

 

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Apr 25 / 4:19pm

What Software? A new resource.

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What Software?

This resource briefly looks at the different 3D design software packages that can be used in schools to create designs for RapMan. Also mesh (stl) repair and post processing software is compared. The is not exhaustive but includes most of the tried and tested solutions.... others may be available! 

http://www.bitsfrombytes.com/wiki/index.php?title=What_Software

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Apr 23 / 9:42pm

NetFabb Engine for RapMan

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So you have designed a part in your 3D CAD program and you want to print it on your RapMan, so you need to convert it to g-code right?

You can of course use Skeinforge. This is a brilliant piece of open source software written by “Enrique” and can be downloaded from http://fabmetheus.blogspot.com/

Although you have a lot of control of how RapMan will print your part using Skeinforge it is a quite complicated program for students to understand. Also some school networks will not allow you to install Python, the “language” that Skeinforge uses.

There is however an alternative.... NetFabb Studio and the “Engine” for RapMan.  This is available in several different versions from the NetFabb site http://www.netfabb.com/  and from BfB  http://bitsfrombytes.com/

The free version of NetFabb will allow you to view scale, move and repair your .stl files but not convert it to g-codeA “paid for” version with the engine for RapMan does the above PLUS conversion to g-code (education prices are available)A professional version (to be released soon) will do ALL the above PLUS more sophisticated editing of stl and mesh file... and more.And.... there is a free version of the NetFabb viewer for iPhone or iPod Touch  http://www.netfabb.com/mobile.php

For details of NetFabb engine see http://www.netfabb.com/rapman_basic.php and for the pro version http://www.netfabb.com/rapman_professional.php

 

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