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Topic: Solidworks and Solidoodle.

I have noticed that there is an option in Solidworks which allows you to print directly from design to printer. However, I don't know how to make this happen. I try to set it up but it says I need to be connected to a 3D printer. Well, I am connected to a 3D printer but no luck. Any thoughts?

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Re: Solidworks and Solidoodle.

It probably is limited to some number of proprietary platforms.

I would....look up the solidworks documentation?

Signed,
The autodesk-lover who is bitter that his school forced him to relearn with solidworks because they believe in overpriced outdated and buggier industry software.

(Sidenote: Did I mention that autodesk recently came out with a cross platform tool for managing different printers and file sources and their application can integrate with a variety of slicers including our loved skeinforge/slic3r?)


Edit: I hope my response didnt come off as mean - that wasn't my intention. It wasn't useful, I admit, but I hope you take my response in the light-hearted way it was intended tongue

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Re: Solidworks and Solidoodle.

No harm done. It's just that the engineers I work with use Solidworks and I like to pretend to be one of them. I wouldn't mind giving Autodesk a shot but, one at a time. smile

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Re: Solidworks and Solidoodle.

FatalDischarge wrote:

No harm done. It's just that the engineers I work with use Solidworks and I like to pretend to be one of them. I wouldn't mind giving Autodesk a shot but, one at a time. smile

Thanks for understanding. And!! That's exactly the problem. The engineering schools teach you solidworks because it was more commonly used 20-30 years ago. And industry uses solidworks because the engineers only know solidworks. Anyway, I'm just a proselytizer. They're both good. But my experience with autodesk has been >>> mine with solidworks. But I also know inventor better than I know solidworks, and learned inventor from having to do projects for fun, and learned solidworks by following a generic boring ass class schedule to repetitively reconstruct an assembly in the book.


More constructively, I think your best bet with solidworks is probably going to be to publish a copy of your file as an STL and import into repetier from where you can slice it with slic3r. Solidworks direct to print is probably not going to save you more than a few steps, because I don't think it's a gcode generator or anything other than an output facilitator.  Or else I figure I would have heard of it before if it offered functional enhancement beyond minutely streamlined.

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Re: Solidworks and Solidoodle.

It's really no big deal. I just saw that option and was wondering if I could make it work.