A 3D WebGL GCode viewer, for understanding 3D printers

Towards the end of 2011, I built a 3D printer (RepRap Prusa Mendel). It took 6 weeks of evenings and weekends.

Here it is, printing an Octocat I found on Thingiverse:

Visualizing GCode

To help understand the model better, I created a WebGL based tool that can view GCode (the set of movement instructions sent to the printer).

It’s built on MrDoob’s (excellent) three.js library, which brings 3D programming to mortals.

If you work with .gcode files, try it out:

Try it

• http://gcode.joewalnes.com/ (sorry, link no longer active)

Source

• https://github.com/joewalnes/gcode-viewer