stl2ngc

The stl2ngc program converts an STL file to LinuxCNC compatible G-code.

Clone, build, install and run

First, install OpenCAMLib, see: https://github.com/aewallin/opencamlib#building-for-c

git clone https://github.com/aewallin/opencamlib
cd opencamlib
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -D CXX_LIB="ON"
make . # try make -j4 for a faster build if you have a multi-core machine
make install .

or use a prebuilt release:

cd Downloads/
wget https://github.com/aewallin/opencamlib/releases/download/2023.01.11/linux-cxx-x86_64.zip
unzip linux-cxx-x86_64.zip && sudo cp -rpv prebuilds/linux-cxx-x86_64/* /usr

and as root (su -):

echo '/usr/lib/opencamlib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opencamlib.conf
ldconfig

Next, checkout stl2ngc from git and run make and sudo make install:

git clone https://github.com/koppi/stl2ngc && cd stl2ngc
make
sudo make install

To convert example.stl to example.ngc run:

cat example.stl | stl2ngc > example.ngc

Demo

See Wiki.

FAQ

• This is an early release, expect errors and missing features.

  Please fork the repo.

• No Gui? - Yes, only command-line for now.

Author

• Jakob Flierl - koppi