Making cool time lapses

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This is funny as I was just talking to some students about this earlier this morning. The thing with 3D printing that makes it easier is

  1. The slicers are pretty sophisticated
  2. They have ONE Z change per layer
  3. Slicers can be asked to insert a macro ON_NEW_LAYER

I was setting up a finishing toolpath for a wavy piece and thought it would be perfect to have the machine trigger a shutter each pass, mechanically or photoelectric or the like. There aren’t too many times when my machine makes consistent passes like that, though. No one wants to see a timelapse of me surfacing a workpiece.

I appreciate the confidence @dakyleman, but I’m not much help here. I’ll be following the thread though. I haven’t played with the triggers in CNCjs much.

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