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Plater: 3D-printer plate generator

Plater is a software that places some STL parts on your buildplate automatically. It handle nesting of the parts, doing the puzzle for you!

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This project was created on 06/03/2014

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When you release a 3D design, or browse some, you sometime have "plated" versions involving all the parts on the same STL. This allow to print complex things in a row, without human intervention. You can just sleep or go away and get back your design later. However, creating the plate can be quite boring, and it's hard to make plates that will be compatible with all printer dimensions. Plater is a software that can generate the plate for you, it can import STL files, with quantity and orientation, and it will try to create puzzle the parts to create at least plates as possible, given some parameters sucha as plate dimensions, parts spacing etc. You can also export/import a configuration file (plater.conf) that contains the parts list with quantities and orientation on the plate. This way, the configuration file can either be released with the 3D design, that would make people able to generate their own plates using Plater, and the already plated STL can also be released.

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  • Releasing v1.0

    Grégoire Passault • 06/03/2014 at 06:47 • 0 comments

    The version 1.0 was released

    It can be used either with command-line tools and Qt+OpenGL GUI

    Source code and link to binaries available here:

    https://github.com/RobotsWar/Plater#plater

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dangerousfood wrote 05/15/2015 at 02:04 • point

Your project is awesome. How did you tackle the NP problem?

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Grégoire Passault wrote 10/27/2014 at 10:09 • point
Thanks, any feedback would be appreciated ;-)

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Albert Latham wrote 10/26/2014 at 22:58 • point
I am surprised that no one has commented. I may be getting a 3D printer tomorrow and so I'd love to give this a shot, especially if it has a command line portion. I look forward to trying this out.

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