Silkworm Source Code Release and Development

Hello Silkworm users,

Due to recent interest in this plugin again we are today making the source code public. This source code can be downloaded at this location, we hope you can join our collaborative project: https://github.com/ProjectSilkworm/Silkworm

Additionally we are hoping to progress with the development of a few items over the coming months and weeks, this is also how we would like to organise our G-Code/ 3D printing components:

1. Settings

Clarification of the use of settings in the Silkworm components;
Extend settings customization possibilities (flowrates, jerk, steps/mm, accelerations, temperatures, hardware physical properties etc)
Create a database of default setting files for the more popular types of 3d printers
Dynamic settings and custom slicing algorithms

2. Geometry

Optional add Brim
Generate supports for geometry
Support for custom infill patterns

3. Compiler

Porting of component C# code to Grasshopper user objects for additional user accessibility, excluding Generator and Visualiser components

Multi-extruder support
Colour printing support

4. Visualization

Develop visualisation component to support additional attributes (i.e. colour printing) and physical simulation

5. Printer Control

Send to print button to send G-Code directly to printer
Integrate a printer client for real time control of the 3d printer

If anyone is interested in helping with these items they can email us at info@projectsilkworm.com

Please upload any experiments that you have done with Silkworm on the group page, the picture attached is from Andrei Jipa, our new member:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/silkworm

The Silkworm Team

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Comment by Anuj Modi on July 29, 2019 at 12:16am: Hello,

Every time I am trying to export ender 3 settings as INI profile from Slic3r and import to silkworm, it gives an error.

Any suggestion as to how to proceed ahead?

Comment by dajana on December 5, 2015 at 7:30pm: Hi Arthur,

Thank You so much. I have G code that works now,very simple one, but as I wrote some settings still have to be corrected manually to correspond with Ultimaker 2 , as Z 0 ....

Comment by Arthur Mamou-Mani on December 5, 2015 at 3:47am: Hi Dajana,

I replied by email but see this thread for saving Gcode files:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/creating-a-g-code-file?co...

Your Ultimaker will probably need its own settings file (.ini), I suggest making a settings file in Slic3r and exporting it once it works.

Comment by dajana on December 4, 2015 at 2:06pm: Hi,

Could You please help me - once I have G code as an output , stream content doesn`t have an option to save it as a g - code, how could I transfer it into g code file ,and make it readable by Ultimaker ?

Comment by Christian Schmidts on June 2, 2014 at 7:48am: Dear Silkwormers,

Great Project! Would be interested to use Silkworm with my Ultimaker 2. Has it been done before by anyone? I'm not an expert to g-code and plug-in development and quite new to 3d printing, so what would be the best way to start? I guess I have to adjust the Slic3r settings?