on today's makers mashup quick tip arc welder in prusa slicer and simplify 3d
so on today's makers mashup we have a viewer requested video
after our arc welder video that was extremely popular and you can see a card for that at the top
we got a lot of questions about how to do the same installation of arc welder inside of simplify 3d
and inside of prusa slicer so in today's video we're going to be covering how to do that exactly
and we'll also be downloading the command line version just to show the entire process start to
finish so with all that said let's get to work so here we are on former lurker's github page
and you can see here there's a number of different plugins available including octal apps and the arc
welder lib in order to install the command line version we're going to navigate to the ark welder
lib and then from there what we're going to work with are the pre-compiled binaries these are the
source code you could download but we're going to skip ahead and move down to the installation and
if you click this here link it will take you to the list of current releases now i'm going to be
installing this on windows so i'm going to select the windows 111 release and i'm going to save this
to a directory on my hard disk in my particular case i've created an opt arc welder folder for
this demo and then we're going to save the file to there once we've saved that file we're going to
go ahead and show it in the folder and then from here we will unzip this to extract all the files
once we have everything extracted we're ready to move on to our next step uh so what we're gonna
do to install this into simplified 3d so it will run is we will want to create a separate profile
here you can see i've got a couple of different processes you've probably got far more of this
and what we're going to start with is i'm just going to copy this 0.2 profile by
hitting ctrl c and ctrl v on my keyboard so once we've copied this here i'll just double click this
and it will bring up the settings for this profile i'm gonna go in here and instead of the one i'm
gonna rename this to aw so that way we know this is going to be our arc welder profile all right
once we've got our profile renamed we're going to go to the scripts tab and then under additional
terminal commands for post processing we're going to paste this in and what this is doing is it's
going to say to run arc welder once uh the g-code processing has been completed and we've created
our g-code output and then it's going to use the output file path for the file name to go ahead
and create and modify the g-code file created by simplify 3d and then arc welder will modify that
file so we'll just click ok from here and then we can do our prepare to print and we can click
ok now that we have the toolpath saved to disk we're going to go ahead and just open up the file
here and i just use notepad plus plus the most important part here is to make sure that the first
line of the file says it's been post-processed by arc welder if you don't see that line up there
what it indicates is that you had something wrong with your configuration and arc welder did not run
but that's all there is to do to set this up for simplify 3d and then from there you can go ahead
and process your file through your 3d printer and take advantage of arc welder in simplify 3d
all right so here we are in prusa slicer and the installation and prusa slicer for
arc welder is even simpler so what we're going to do is we're going to start with an
object i've already got one loaded the same one i used when we were using simplify 3d
once we go to print settings all we have to do is go down to post processing scripts
and enter the path and file name to arc welder and this is where i installed it for simplify 3d
so it works regardless but this is the command line version that will be executed and we need
no parameters after this just including this and then to save this what we're going to do
is we'll just click save up here and then the profile that we have for arc welder we will just
use the same annotation here where we indicate the aw to indicate arc welder so that gives us
the ability to switch these settings depending on whether or not we want to run arc welder
once we're done with that then you can go back to the platter here and slice everything
and then once that is done slicing you can export your g-code uh we'll go ahead and delete the test
file from before and create a new one and then once we've created that new file we will do the
same thing we'll load this up in notepad plus plus and as you can see in notepad plus plus
we have very similar information you can see this is prusa slicer's output but once again
post process by arc welder indicating that we have everything properly installed
so as you can see getting arc welder working inside of simplify 3d or inside of prusa slicer
is really a pretty simple task just a matter of downloading the appropriate files and then after
we've got those files downloaded just calling those executables from within the slicers so i've
been thinking about putting together a special video with former lurker where we can have a live
q a interactive session and people can ask a lot of questions about art welder as we had so many
thousands of questions from the other art welder video so if you're interested in something like
that and you would love to have an interactive q a session uh go down to the comments and let
me know your thoughts on that and what sort of questions you have and then from there i can go
ahead and work with former lurker to put together a q a session on the channel so with that is going
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