Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 23/01/2025 20:22, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 23/01/2025 15:46, D wrote:
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I think you can download stl files and then just upload them with some
kind of print software. That's what I would expect at least.

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No print software needed.  That is te 3D printers job.
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STL files are 3D SURFACES made of triangles. A text based description of
a point in X,Y,Z coordinates,.
The conversion of that to a GERBER file,

 You must mean GCODE.
 

Yes. My bad. Do so much PCB worke I kinda loset treack of which is which

Mine does need print software to interpret the Gcode and generate
build files that the printer itself can understand. But it's pretty
ancient as home 3D printers go (an original Makerbot Cupcake).
 

Well mine (creality K1) seems to understand the GCODE directly, but the slicer 'knows' about the machine, its commands and the plastic materials, so it pretty much does all of that.
I think modern printers are very much better than they used to be.Its now out of 'unstable' and more into 'testing' with their onboard code
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