Comments on: Pleasant Future

By: Trying PyPy with ReplicatorG | Michael Cook's Place

Trying PyPy with ReplicatorG | Michael Cook's Place — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:03:42 +0000

[...] look at the gcode Skeinforge makes to look for errors. While reading about the software, I found a blog entry by the author describing how he got tired of waiting on Skeinforge and then ported the gcode gene [...]

By: Pleasant3D on Mac OSX Rocks. | printrbot

Pleasant3D on Mac OSX Rocks. | printrbot — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:23:28 +0000

[...] Blogpost: http://pleasantsoftware.com/developer/3d/2010/03/01/pleasant-future/ [...]

By: Henkka

Henkka — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:07 +0000

Great work !

I got it working, I compiled an example tool in XCode 3.2.2 and it is visible in Toolbox. I also copied ReplicatorG machines.xml-file to the machines-folder – it’s now showing those machines in the dropdown menu ok, and showing few dialog-boxes when I press “Print”. So everything is setup nicely.

Is there anything I can do to help to implement actual printing and/or driver to CupCake ?

I have CupCake and has previously worked with CNC-machines too (participated in EMC Linux CNC-project years ago as a coder & FAQ-writer). I can write Bash, Ruby and Perl scripts to test things up and have been doing SW development for my living for a 15+ years. Not much of that is directly for Mac OS but I’m using solely Macs as my VMWare-host etc.

By: Reinoud

Reinoud — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:24:21 +0000

Neat performance! Well, BSD/Linux/Windows users, i’m busy writing my own set of slicing tools and they appear to be as fast as this one even though it doesn’t use multi-threading/multi-processor/GPU yet. Its written in C using SDL and OpenGL. Not as fancy looking though! :) but it does have a fairly decent 3D STL and gcode preview.

My motivation, as was with his motivation, was the extreme slowness of Skeinforge; a good product producing nice objects, only it really takes ages!

Erik, did you need to modify the Bowden-extruder much to get this speed? Or is that not the limiting factor?

By: Zaggo

Zaggo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:55:07 +0000

I guess I forgot to copy a machines.xml file in the right place. But it doesn’t matter for now, since the configured machine doesn’t really do anything right now.
A workaround is to simply copy a standard machines.xml file from ReplicatorG to the path ~/Library/Application Support/Pleasant3D/Machines/

By: Jörg

Jörg — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:50:27 +0000

Looks really great, can’t wait to get my MakerBot… However, the selection list where in your video you can read “Cupcake CNC” shows only an empty text here. Is this a bug or do I need additional software?

By: Erik de Bruijn

Erik de Bruijn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:15:15 +0000

Extremely sleek and intuitive GUI design. I also like the fact that the processing backend is so fast… I’m uploading STL’s and downloading gcode to a faster server because my laptop is too slow for skeinforge. It almost takes longer than the actualy print job (especially now that I print at >50 mm/s)

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:19:20 +0000

Wow… Really incredible… I’m speechless… Really this is completely awesome! The fact that you would spend so much time porting a tool that already works to a new place just to make it faster and better is awesome. I’m a Mac developer too, so the fact that there is support for making plugins is even more awesome! I cannot even begin to imagine how much work you have put into this! Awesome!

By: Zaggo

Zaggo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:25:13 +0000

You want to “click-and-hold” a tool icon until it appears semi-transparent attached on the mouse cursor. Then start to drag. It only takes .3 or .4 s until you can start to drag. That’s a default behavior of the collection view the toolbox is based on.

By: Zaggo’s Pleasant3D v2.0 | MakerBlock

Zaggo’s Pleasant3D v2.0 | MakerBlock — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:22:43 +0000

[...] said, Zaggo’s software is making me wish I had a Mac. His Pleasant3D v2.0 software is crazy awesome. I use Google Sketchup to design and a combination of Netfabb and Blender to [...]