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Coming Soon…
The development team are currently finishing up files for the first release of Silkworm. Stay tuned for the plugin, example files and manual in the next couple weeks! The post Coming Soon…...
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Announcing the first release of the Silkworm plugin for Grasshopper! This release includes components to convert Grasshopper geometry to paths, edit the GCode properties of paths, create and preview...
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Silkworm Exhibited at London 3d Print Show
Our Project Silkworm prints were exhibited at the first 3D print show in London last week. We were part of the Simply Rhino and Uformia stand. A big thank you to Paul Cowell of Simply Rhino and Turlif...
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Defining your Slic3r Settings for Silkworm
What are Slic3r settings and how can you find out if they are right? The Settings component of Silkworm First of all what is Slic3r? Slic3r is a free software that converts a digital 3D model (in STL...
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Silkworm Workshop with AGD in Taipei. Taiwan
Tomorrow I am leaving for Taiwan for a workshop involving Rhino, Grasshopper, Geco, Weaverbird, Karamba, C# and Silkworm. Below is the poster for it. It is organize by Shih-Yuan Wang and the AGD team...
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Clay Printing – First Steps
Printing with Clay? Among other things, we have been looking at getting started with clay printing on DIY 3d printers here on Project Silkworm. This is quite an exciting area for 3d printing because...
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Flow, Feed-rates and Stringing
A potentially confusing area when setting up prints with Silkworm is the amount of plastic that needs to be flowing through the extruder in order to get a desired thickness of printed line. This...
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Ruled Surfaces with Silkworm
Some tests done with Silkworm based on parametric line geometries generated with a simple grasshopper definition. The principle is to create a solid structural outer shell which supports inner lines...
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