So now Slic3r, Cura, and all the others will need to make there slicer work with .amf files too. Converting them to STL first won't do us any good. Likewise, converting an STL to AMF won't help either as the STL doesn't contain the advanced info the AMF standard will hold so unless the convert allows you to add detail and other features to the imported STL there is really no need to convert.
Some things are meant to be closed. Your mind isn't one of them.
Post by jimustanguitar on Dec 22, 2014 19:17:46 GMT -5
It wouldn't surprise me if they already do. I've read about the format before, and I think it's one of the formats that those programs can open already.
I just downloaded the latest nightly release of OpenSCAD and it has an option to export as AMF; the latest stable release does not. I fired up one of my models and exported it as AMF and was able to import it successfully into Cura (14.09) and Slic3r (1.1.7), but not through Repetier-Host (Mac version 0.56).
Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works.
