3D Printing Forum

Thanks to both, this is very helpful and was the type of pointers I was hoping for. I think we can figure the rest out and I did want the student to try his own approach rather than a plugin if we can make it work correctly. Also I should have put in initially that our overall plan is to create a GC...

I appreciate the concern. I am the instructor and all we are really looking for is some ideas if this was reasonable and then some GCODE commands or links so we could experiment. From a teaching perspective the reason we are asking for help is this is just part of the overall project and the project...

I have a student that is trying to insert an object in the middle of a FDM print and then have the printer continue the print after the part is inserted. I know there are several concerns with this approach including the possibility of the extruder hitting the inserted part, but for now we are just ...