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Start And Stop GCode: Commands To Make Your Printer Do Your Bidding

Start And Stop GCode: Commands To Make Your Printer Do Your Bidding

By Ryan Priore

Ryan Priore

Ryan is a trained analytical chemist and entrepreneur in the photonics industry. He jokingly describes himself as a capitalist by day and an open source enthusiast by night. Ryan is an active member of HackPGH and is the cofounder of 3DPPGH.

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3D printers communicate via a language called G-code, like all Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machines. This versatile language provides a set of human-readable commands for controlling each action that a 3D printer performs. Slicing software may be thought of as an interpreter for translating 3D models into a series of G-code commands for producing a […]

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