Well from OpenSCAD you would output an STL format. Then take the STL and put it through a slicer. There are several out there. I'm not 100% sure for the printrbot because he hasn't released details of his electronics yet. But I suspect it's designed to work with regular reprap tools.<div>
<br></div><div>In that case you likely have either one of two options:</div><div><br></div><div>1) The all in one app. (these apps would do the slicing, and control the machine)</div><div>2) Standalone slicer (skeinforge for example) and a "Host" app, which controls the machine.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One nice all in one setup is ReplicatorG. It's got a nice gui, and runs skeinforge on the backend (but hides it from the user mostly to keep it simple) and it controls the machine. This is the default app for Makerbot printers, and is growing a bit more popular for repraps as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In ReplicatorG it's as simple as opening the STL, setting a few settings, and hitting "Print".</div><div><br></div><div>I'm currently beta testing a fantastic all in one app called KISSlicer as well, but currently for repraps it doesn't do the machine control yet (but it's currently outputting higher quality than skeinforge and it runs WAY faster).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway. there are several options out there. The big question now is how his electronics work for that printer.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps</div><div><br></div><div>- Paul</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hey,<br>
<br>
I was wonderinf. If some one bought<br>
<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printrbot/1239090607" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printrbot/1239090607</a> what kind of<br>
software would I need to pring my 3d object.<br>
<br>
say I have a modle in openscad what would be the next step to print<br>
<br>
Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>
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"Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and<br>
wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
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