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Best practices for workflow?
preston_bannister
Member Posts: 6 ✭
In my case, I am exporting parts from Onshape, importing into Cura - with adjustments, saving the gcode to removable storage - with renaming, and printing on my 3D printer (a Chinese clone of the Prusa i3).
As a software guy, I am accustomed to saving anything repetitive as Make/Ant/Maven recipes (or the like). Fiddling around in a GUI is fine the first time or few, but after I want to write recipes.
I have no notion what is usual practice in the CAD community. What is usual practice? What does Onshape support?
I can hack Cura (if needed), as it is open source. Not looking to re-invent where there is existing practice (if there is existing practice).
As a software guy, I am accustomed to saving anything repetitive as Make/Ant/Maven recipes (or the like). Fiddling around in a GUI is fine the first time or few, but after I want to write recipes.
I have no notion what is usual practice in the CAD community. What is usual practice? What does Onshape support?
I can hack Cura (if needed), as it is open source. Not looking to re-invent where there is existing practice (if there is existing practice).
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You could automate the exporting processes from Onshape with the APIs. You could build a custom task that can interact with the Onshape APIs. I have an app that does the download of an Onshape model to a step file locally and then imports it into another CAD platform and manipulates it.
The one challenge is you can only export a couple formats ( think just Parasolid ) in a single step. The other formats require you to setup a webhook listener that Onshape notifies when the its completed the translation. This might cause a small issue if you want this process to be solely run on your desktop as the webhook wants a url to call. I think you can take another approach where you request the export/translation and then poll for its status and when its complete download it.